Senior Product Manager - Artificial Intelligence
Description
Senior Product Manager - Artificial Intelligence
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 and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
About the role:
Splunk is looking for an enthusiastic, and driven Product Manager to drive the future of the next generation of AI capabilities across our product portfolio supporting our Security and Observability customers. In this role, you will be responsible for deep integration of generative AI and machine learning with a focus on cybersecurity. In this role, you will define the critical features and roadmap for bringing high-scale, high-performance AI to Splunk customers and app developers.
You will use your understanding and experience building products using Gen AI, LLMs and deep learning, and your ML expertise building anomaly detection systems, to support cybersecurity use cases. You should be comfortable working with MLOps, AIOps PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLflow and ONNX, and apply state of the art ML capabilities to help Splunk customers complete their tasks with speed and efficiency. If you are adept at cross -team collaboration and have worked closely with engineers and data scientists to build AI products that drive meaningful and impactful business outcomes, this is the role for you.
You will work in the AI Product Management team as part of the Office of the CTO so a real appreciation of serving the needs of Security, AI, and Platform engineers is vital. Exposure to cross-functional AI integration is a plus.
You will merge customer value, business imperatives with attention to technical detail and collaborate with cross-functional execution teams to drive customer insights and inputs directly into the development process and the entire product life cycle. Ideally you have experience working directly with GTM partners and customers, especially design partners.
As we drive forward for the success of our customers, you will hold the team accountable to achieve goals of product quality and value.
What you'll get to do:
As with any fast-growing company, day-to-day responsibilities will span the entire product life cycle, delivery pipeline and include deep interaction with customers, sales, and engineering, and Splunk’s global partner organization.
- Collaborate closely with your AI PM counterparts to delivery 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.
- Build product roadmaps based on customers' needs, including market and technology forces.
- Define product specifications, user stories, mockups, and acceptance criteria independently and in collaboration with engineering, design, Security PMs, TPM, and documentation.
- Interact and collaborate with Support, NOC, and field teams to understand customer issues and drive business outcomes.
- Collaborate with QA, SRE, and release teams to plan, drive and execute 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)
Must-have Qualifications:
- 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.
- Strong sense of empathy to care deeply about customer problems and the user experience.
- Analytical thinking skills and a data-informed approach to decision-making.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate sophisticated technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent the team from delivering high-quality products including cross-functional team execution.
- 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.
- Enable every team member to do the best work of their lives.
Nice-to-have Qualifications:
- 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
- Continuous 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.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. EE, CS); MBA or similar degree highly preferred
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! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering here.
Meet the Products and Technology Team
Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at splunk.com/careers/products-and-technology.
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. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $159,200.00 - 218,900.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $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.
Base Pay Range: $127,360.00 - 175,120.00 per year
Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. 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 as set out above, as well as the 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.
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! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.
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