Cisco · 1 day ago
Director, Product Management
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$280K/yr - $385K/yr
15+ years expCisco is seeking a bold, strategic Senior Director of Product to lead the Native AI pillar within the Cisco Data Fabric portfolio. This role involves owning the product strategy and execution for AI-native platform capabilities and collaborating across various teams to deliver seamless AI experiences.
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Responsibilities
Own the strategy and execution of AI-native pillar within Splunk’s Machine Data Fabric, make it into a foundation for building scalable, secure, and composable AI solutions powered by machine data
Define and deliver critical platform AI services including model service integrations, real-time graph analytics, workflow orchestration, knowledge enrichment, and AI-ready data pipelines, to support both Splunk and partner ecosystems
Drive the product roadmap for Agentic workflows, enabling AI agents to reason, act, and learn autonomously across domains using MELT data, platform signals, and operational knowledge graphs
Partner with Security, Observability, and GTM solution teams to ensure AI-native capabilities are modular, extensible, and interoperable, supporting a broad range of AI-powered and AI-augmented use cases across the platform, driving measurable business impact like reduced MTTR and enhanced digital resilience
Partner with Splunk central AI team employing external LLMs, agent frameworks, and partner models, ensuring secure, scalable, and responsible interoperability via APIs, SDKs, MCP, and beyond, fostering collaboration with key partners
Define the roadmap for AI-enabled developer experiences for both internal and external builders, from schema abstraction and model routing to semantic query interfaces and Agentic APIs
Champion human-AI collaboration principles, driving clarity, governance, and trust in AI-assisted decision-making and autonomous workflows
Contribute to shaping the vision for Splunk’s AI ecosystem and marketplace, enabling a growing community of teams, partners, and customers to build AI-native solutions with machine data and operational intelligence at the core
Engage directly with strategic customers, analysts, and design partners to validate platform direction, incubate capabilities, and ensure measurable business impact, contributing directly to revenue growth and market differentiation
Qualification
Required
15+ years of product management experience, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role driving AI, data, or platform products at scale end to end with significant business impact
Experience leading platform product teams with exposure to data lake/lakehouse, workflow orchestration, and operational intelligence
Understanding of AI/ML productization, including experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, or ML observability
Strong technical product management intuition with a proven track record of delivery; you can go deep with engineers and translate complexity with clear business value
Excellent communication skills, connecting technical solutions driven by customer value and use cases, able to encourage internal teams and external partners alike
Preferred
Experience building or integrating with Agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI Functions, ReAct, self-healing systems)
Familiarity with security, observability, or federated data architectures is a plus
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance
A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
Company
Cisco
Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products. It is a sub-organization of Cisco Press.
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