Director of Product Management – Application Performance Management (APM)

Join us as we pursue our disruptive 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.

At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success.

Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!As Director PM at Splunk, you will drive the product strategy and roadmap to provide industry-leading observability for hybrid cloud-based applications
– deployed either as distributed services using Kubernetes/Containers daily/weekly or monolithic apps deployed using VMs monthly/quarterly.

As the PM leader responsible for this critical product area, you will lead a team of PMs focused on observability for cloud-based applications and will need to thrive in a very cross-functional and collaborative environment working with product and engineering leadership, as well as all the go-to-market functions to scale and further differentiate Splunk’s next-gen APM solution.Key Responsibilities+ Deeply understand our key personas
– Developers/Service Owners, DevOps/SRE, Cloud Platform Teams
– and drive product roadmap with a strategic vision for Splunk’s APM Solution to constantly innovate and implement novel functionality+ Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition and technologies are evolving, and factor it, as well as feedback from internal groups and customers, into product direction+ Lead, inspire and mentor a team of high-performing PMs and cross-functional teams to translate product direction into clear priorities and deliver high-impact, innovative products+ Evaluate new growth opportunities such as specific product and GTM opportunities; and lead cross-functional teams to execute+ Partner with with GTM teams
– product marketing, support and sales
– to solve for business limiters and pursue key business accelerantsQualifications+ Demonstrated ability to launch industry defining/altering products from scratch (zero to one) and scaling products with P-M fit to multi-million dollar product lines (one to hundred) + Track-record of building and leading high performing PM teams that have achieved audacious goals+ Excellent analytical / problem-solving skills; with the ability to identify patterns and synthesize disparate data into a coherent whole by gleaning user/customer insights from quantitative and qualitative data+ Bias-to-action, willing to do whatever it takes to get quality products and features to market on time with a strong design aesthetic and a passion for usability and simplicity+ Strong written and verbal organizational, analytical, and communication skills.

Ability to lead and influence via persuasion, patience and energy+ Background in enterprise SaaS; bonus if those were Cloud Applications, IaaS, Monitoring or Data Analytics products+ 7+ years of experience in product management and 3+ years leading product teams+ Undergraduate degree (M.S preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field + MBA from top-tier programIf you’d like to join one of the fastest growing and most exciting tech companies in the Silicon Valley, contact us!

This position has the ability to make a huge impact.

Your compensation will include a competitive salary, stock options, cool perks, and generous benefits.We value diversity at our company.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.About SplunkSplunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone.

Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data.

IT insights.

Security insights.

Business insights.

It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world.

These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs.

Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business.

Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software.

We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.Benefits & Perks: Wow!

This is really cool!SF OnlyMedical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Non SFMedical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave.

Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy.

You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?Individuals seeking employment at Splunk are considered without regards 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 (except where physical fitness is a valid occupational qualification), genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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