Cisco

Staff Engineering Product Manager, Analytics - Query Language & Planning (Hybrid)

Cisco$171K — $245K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of experience, including 5+ years in product management for technical platforms.
  • In-depth understanding of query languages and database engines; experience beyond just using SQL is essential.
  • Proven ability to drive strategic technical direction and align product architecture across teams.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical decisions to varied audiences.
  • Experience with managing compatibility for developer interfaces and customer migrations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product vision and strategy for Splunk's SPL search language.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to integrate SPL into various products, enhancing user experience.
  • Define and oversee the query-planning model to translate user intent into technical execution.
  • Establish migration principles that ensure language evolution without disrupting existing customer workflows.
  • Develop a language roadmap based on insights from customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Influence senior leadership on product and architectural decisions through strong strategic narratives.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with a balance of onsite and remote work.
  • Flexible work arrangements customized with team coordination.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 08/28/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This position is a hybrid role, requiring the employee to work both onsite and remotely. Candidates should be comfortable with a flexible work arrangement that balances in-office collaboration and remote work. Specific onsite days and remote days will be coordinated with the team and manager.

Your Impact

  • As a Staff Product Manager in the Analytics area, you will own the long-term vision and product strategy for Splunk's SPL search language, and how internal and third-party developers build on it. You will lead cross-functional alignment to integrate SPL across products with different execution models, creating a consistent analytical experience for customers across the Splunk portfolio.
  • You will define the query-planning model that translates user intent into execution against Splunk indexes, distributed data stores, and streaming or third-party runtimes.
  • Establish compatibility, versioning, and migration principles that allow the language to evolve without changing the intended behavior of existing customer searches.


  • Drive the product strategy, you will build the language roadmap from direct customer and internal client insight, connecting platform architecture to the workflows users need to complete.
  • Influence partner teams and senior leaders through clear narratives and architecture reviews, resolving technical disagreements and driving a coherent language strategy.


  • This is a deeply technical product role. A successful candidate can engage credibly in architecture discussions, form a clear product position when engineering teams disagree, and explain the decision to product and engineering leadership without losing the technical substance. A strong candidate for this role can independently understand a language and its execution architecture, develop a credible language product position, explain it at multiple levels, and lead its go-to-market and internal rollout across team boundaries.


Minimum Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years of product management experience with a highly technical platform or developer product.


  • Validated depth in a query language, database engine, compiler, runtime, or developer platform. Experience using SQL or a programming language is not sufficient; you should have crafted how a technical platform or language behaves and evolves.


  • A record of driving technical direction across boundaries, with technical customers or internal developers as a primary customer. This includes building alignment around product and architectural direction.


  • Outstanding verbal and written communication with both technical and executive audiences. For example: you should be able to explain an architecture decision clearly and respond to technical challenges in real time, via strategy documents and technical narratives.


  • Experience handling compatibility for customer-authored content or public developer interfaces, or other direct experience handling developer or customer-impacting migrations.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with SPL, and the customer content built on top of it.


  • Experience with distributed query engines or orchestration platforms.


  • Background in security analytics or observability products or analytics over metrics, logs, traces, and spans.


  • Experience designing query interfaces for AI agents.


  • Natural curiosity!


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