Senior Product Manager - Indexing & Storage

Senior Product Manager - Indexing & Storage

Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination.

Join us as we pursue our exciting new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers.

Role Summary

Splunk is looking for a highly technical and design savvy Senior Product Manager to drive efforts on event processing of time-series data and efficiently store the processed data. The Indexing and Storage team, part of our Data Platform division, plays a meaningful role in the Splunk platform. This team is responsible for the majority of the processing and storing of data that comes into Splunk which is an integral part of our core value to customers.

As the Product Manager of this team, you will define the critical features and roadmap for bringing high-scale, high-performance data processing to Splunk customers. You will merge attention to technical detail with the ability to understand and align to business imperatives while working hand-in-glove with cross-functional execution teams to drive customer insights and inputs directly into the development process.

What You'll Get To Do:

1. Lead the whole product experience for your area.
2. Engage with customers, develop insights into what is possible, and uncover unarticulated needs to ensure customer success.
3. Build product roadmaps based on customers' needs, including market and technology forces.
4. Define product specifications, user stories, mockups, and acceptance criteria independently and in collaboration with engineering.
5. Interact and collaborate with Support, NOC, and field teams to understand customer issues and drive business outcomes.
6. Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, and release teams to plan, drive and execute product release cycles.
7. Collaborate with product marketing to support the creation of content.

Must-have Qualifications:

1. 5+ years of experience in product management.
2. Experience as a Product Manager in building core platform technology for unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data processing and storage.
3. Familiarity with cloud services, batch/stream data processing, data storage formats, high availability, scalability and performance.
4. Strong sense of product ownership & customer empathy to care deeply about customer problems and the user experience.
5. Analytical thinking skills and a data-informed approach to decision-making.
6. Collaborative, with strong communication skills, including the ability to translate sophisticated technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations.

Desired Skills:

1. Experience building data platform products with a focus on data processing, cloud storage, high availability, performance, and scalability.
2. Strong bias for action, creative thinking, innovation, and data-informed product decision-making.
3. Operate and think in terms of the business outcome, end-user experience, the underlying technology stack to drive those experiences and outcomes.
4. Exposure to cloud infrastructure and agile software development.
5. Passion for understanding end-to-end business workflows and building enterprise products with intuitive user experience.

Education:

1. BS, MS, or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science or related major.

What We Offer You:

If you’d like to join one of the fastest-growing and most exciting tech companies in Silicon Valley, contact us! Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and much more!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive.

Base Pay Range:

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area: $159,200.00 - 218,900.00 per year.

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts: $143,280.00 - 197,010.00 per year.

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area: $127,360.00 - 175,120.00 per year.

Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location, knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.