Cisco

Engineering Product Manager (Hybrid)

Cisco$171K — $245K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
  • 7+ years of product management experience with technical infrastructure or enterprise SaaS
  • 3+ years of end-to-end product delivery experience
  • Familiar with Kubernetes, microservices, and public-cloud platforms
  • Experienced in hybrid application architectures and modern software practices

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive product vision and roadmap for key Splunk AppDynamics capabilities
  • Engage with customers and partners to identify needs and market opportunities
  • Collaborate with engineering and design teams for product development and launch
  • Advance integrated experiences across various Splunk and Cisco technologies
  • Support product positioning and monitor competitive trends

Benefits

  • Hybrid working arrangement with one office day per week
  • Opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies like AI and observability
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including engineering and marketing
  • Involvement in shaping strategies for enterprise application performance
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 09/21/2026
This is a hybrid role with one day per week at Cisco's San Jose or San Francisco office.

Meet the Team

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world. The Splunk Observability team helps organizations understand, optimize, and protect applications across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

Splunk AppDynamics delivers application performance monitoring and full-stack observability linked to business outcomes. As a Senior Product Manager, you will work with engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to shape the future of enterprise observability.

Your Impact

You will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of key Splunk AppDynamics capabilities. By combining customer insight, technical understanding, and commercial judgment, you will help enterprises improve application performance, accelerate troubleshooting, and strengthen digital resilience.
  • Define and drive the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Splunk AppDynamics capabilities spanning application performance, infrastructure, digital experience, business analytics, and AI-powered observability.
  • Engage with enterprise customers, partners, and go-to-market teams to identify unmet needs, assess market opportunities, and translate insights into prioritized product requirements.
  • Partner with engineering, design, architecture, and program management to deliver scalable, secure, and intuitive products from discovery through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Advance integrated experiences across Splunk AppDynamics, the Splunk platform, Splunk Observability Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, and relevant Cisco technologies.
  • Support product positioning, field enablement, strategic customer briefings, and industry engagement while monitoring competitive and technology trends across observability, AIOps, OpenTelemetry, and generative AI.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
  • 7+ years of product management experience delivering technical infrastructure, cloud services, or enterprise SaaS solutions.
  • 3+ years of end-to-end experience shipping substantial features or products from concept to launch.
  • Experienced with Kubernetes, microservices, public-cloud platforms, enterprise Java/.NET, SAP, databases, and hybrid application architectures.
  • Experienced with enterprise applications, distributed systems, hybrid-cloud environments, and modern software development and operations practices.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with APM, infrastructure monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log analytics, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, AIOps, or application security.
  • Experience building AI/ML-powered analytics, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, or monitoring capabilities for generative-AI and LLM applications.
  • Experience with enterprise pricing, packaging, licensing, product launches, or global go-to-market organizations.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams
  • Familiarity with observability, cloud-native development, or adjacent domains (e.g., cloud platforms, microservices)

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