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In this role, you will manage a team of stellar product and content marketeers to elevate Splunk’s market awareness and drive durable revenue for the business. You will own our cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and activation along with building a content strategy that feeds into demand generation, events and across critical executive and analyst meetings.

As a leader owning creative portfolio storytelling that cascades into practical customer outcomes, you will play a vital role in Splunk’s growth in Security and Observability markets, drive seller success and influence product-specific messaging with a view from the “whole picture.” The person in this role must be a seasoned enterprise software product marketeer with an innate ability to craft visionary messaging.

Your Impact

+ **Cross portfolio messaging:** Own the overall vision for a cohesive Splunk-Cisco portfolio narrativeacross Splunk and Cisco’sportfolio ofsolutions,Splunk'sAI, Machine Data andData Fabric vision.Partner withcross-functional teamsin the field,productandbrandto bring thismessagingtolife at events,content andinworld-class keynotes.

+ **Growth and GTM:** Influenceroutes toreach newaudiences,creatingaccompanying sellerand partnerassetson how to tell across-portfoliovalue story to customers.

+ **Thought Leadership & Storytelling.** Champion Splunk’s vision incritical industry and corporate events including keynotes and product deep dives,executiveand analyst briefings where Splunk is represented.

+ **Content Marketing** **:** Oversee the content marketing team,guiding content strategyand alignmentwith messaging andobjectives.Ensuring seamless integration with the businessand stakeholdersto maximize impact.

+ **Team & Organizational Leadership.** Recruit, develop, and inspire a team of senior and group PMMs; instill operating rigor, creative excellence, and a bias for action.

Minimum Qualifications

+ 15+ years of product marketing experience in relevant enterprise IT softwarewith7+ years of experience managing people

+ Bachelor's Degree, Masters is a Plus

+ Position is based at headquarters in San Francisco, California or San Jose, California

Preferred Qualifications

+ Strong knowledge of existing technologies and solutions in the marketplace, primary vendors, and industry trends and dynamics is strongly preferred.

+ Customer-first mindset: You are an expert in understanding customer and buyer personas; know how to create clear, powerful and compelling narratives that stick.

+ Analytical Storyteller: Comfortable moving between creative reviews and quick execution cycles, influencing executive stakeholders and gathering buy in.

+ People-First Mindset: Builds high-performing teams, mentors rising leaders, and fosters a growth-first mindset

+ Cross-Org Influence: Aligns senior stakeholders, drives clear timelines and execution paths, and navigates large organizations with grace.

+ Self-starter: Truly enjoys working in a fast-paced software start-up environment and gets things done with a sense of urgency.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $250,000.00 to $315,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

+ 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

+ 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

+ Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

+ Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

+ 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

+ Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

+ Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

+ .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

+ 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

+ 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

+ Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$278,000.00 - $402,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$250,000.00 - $362,300.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.