Product Management

Krakow, Poland

- Hybrid Remote

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Role Summary

This role is part of the Foundations team, which is part of our Data Platform division and plays a critical role in the Splunk platform. The Frameworks team is responsible for leading the platform-wide evolution of the core Splunk Platform towards a modernized, microservice-oriented architecture built for scale and performance. As the Senior Product Manager of the core architecture team, you will own the strategy and roadmap for evolving the core of our platform technology and product offerings that rely on it.

You will provide leadership to one or more teams as they improve the scalability and availability of the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud product offerings. You will also be accountable for ensuring smooth delivery of platform enhancements to Splunk customers and to features and apps built that rely on these platforms. This role requires strong understanding of and ability to build data-driven deployment plans from telemetry/usage data.

This role presents an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand experience in building end-to-end data platform cloud services contributing towards Splunk’s industry-leading data platform and delivering high impact customer & business outcomes

Your strong understanding of industry-standard technologies (such as Kubernetes and other container management and orchestration tooling) and design patterns (including service-oriented architecture) will be crucial to how we plan out and lead your team through major architectural changes. Your ability to build trust with and communicate directly with Splunk's customer and developer community will be essential to the smooth delivery of your roadmap."

Responsibilities

As with any fast-growing company, day-to-day responsibilities will span the entire product management lifecycle and include deep interaction with customers, sales, and engineering.

Work with a globally distributed engineering team to develop a roadmap for Splunk’s sub-system architecture, how nodes and services interact in the larger ecosystem, in a microservices architecture including lifecycle and configuration management, integration, and packaging.
Engage with both external and internal customers (e.g. Splunk development and product teams) regularly to gather feedback, determine customer impact, and validate value propositions.
Build compelling and high impact platform capabilities, based on a deep understanding of customer needs & market trends, translating them into clear priorities and product roadmap.
Partner with sales & marketing, legal, documentation and support to translate highly technical software and systems engineering concepts into customer & developer impact and value.
Collaborate with Engineering, QA, SRE, and release teams to plan, drive and execute product release cycles.
Influence cross-functional stakeholders with various dependencies to your core team, as well as high competence in managing such dependencies.
Translate complex technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product management.
Familiarity with industry-standard container management and orchestration tooling
Curious about distributed, enterprise-scale systems and modern architecture
Technical background in data management, high availability, scalability monitoring and system performance
Deep understanding of data platform market, trends, competition and industry
Strong sense of customer empathy to care deeply about customer problems and user experience
Strong analytical skills and data driven product decision-making mindset
Collaborative team player, with strong communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations

Desired Skills:

Experience as a Product Manager with data platform, storage, databases or clustering technologies
Experience with building large scale data management platforms or services
Familiarity with metrics, events, logs and traces, including major market players in this space and general design of tooling for collecting and searching data
Deep understanding of data platform and platform engineering market, trends and competition
Passion for solving challenging technical problems and building enterprise products with intuitive user experience
Strong bias for action, creative thinking, innovation and data driven product decision-making
Exposure to cloud infrastructure and agile software development

Note:

Base Pay Range

Poland

Base Pay: PLN 177,600.00 - 244,200.00 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 comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, wellbeing expense reimbursement, and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.

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