Engineering Product Manager - Splunk AI

Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing data and infrastructure in the AI era. They are seeking an Engineering Product Manager to drive AI capabilities across their product portfolio, focusing on digital resilience and the integration of generative AI and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with your AI PM counterparts to deliver in depth AI integration across the entire product portfolio
• Engage with customers, develop insights into what is possible, and uncover unarticulated needs to ensure customer success
• Define product specifications, user stories, mockups, and acceptance criteria independently and in collaboration with engineering, design, TPM, and documentation
• Collaborate with QA, SRE, and release teams to plan, drive and implement product release cycles
• Collaborate with product marketing to support the creation of content
• Engage with Compliance, Legal, and Finance teams to ensure products meet security, legal standards as well as address financial goals (for example cloud margin)

Requirements:

• 5+ years of proven success in product management
• Deep understanding and several years of experience in product delivery of AI services, machine learning platforms and products, and generative AI
• Deep AI Product management experience, specifically shipping AI tools and platforms, building and training models, MLOps capabilities, foundation models and AI Assistant solutions is a requirement
• Solid understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security concerns in on-prem and cloud environments
• Actively maintain a view of how the Security, Platform and AIOps market, competition and technologies are evolving, and factor it, as well as feedback from internal groups and customers, into the product strategy
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate sophisticated technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations
• Champion an atmosphere of continuous product improvement by serving as a customer advocate and collaborating closely with sales, support, engineering to make judgment calls that best serve customers and the business
• Experience building AI capabilities at scale via platform services that serve multiple products with a focus on generative AI, machine learning, deep learning
• Experience delivering compelling products incorporating artificial intelligence as part of the technical solution with tangible results of customer value, adoption, consumption leading to business growth
• Deep understanding of AI and cybersecurity market and competition
• Deep understanding of anomaly detection and its application to security and/or observability use cases
• Continuously deliver results of product improvement through each stage of the product life cycle
• Experience developing pricing strategy that met expectations and improved growth for the business
• Strong negotiation skills paired with building trusting relationships within the team, the organization, customers and partners
• Strong bias for action, creative thinking, innovation, and data-informed product decision-making
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and agile software development
• Passion for solving interesting technical problems and building enterprise products with intuitive user experience