Splunk, a Cisco Company, is defining the next era of digital resilience for SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams to work together, move at agentic speed, and harness AI responsibly. As part of the Cross-Portfolio Product Marketing Team, you'll play a pivotal role in bringing that vision to life.
We're looking for an expert Cross-Portfolio Product Marketing Manager who can turn our Splunk + Cisco portfolio, AI innovations, and machine data story into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with our security, IT and engineering audience. You'll create content that powers our biggest moments - .conf, Splunk Go, Partner Summit and global field events - ensuring every activation delivers consistent, high-impact storytelling across the funnel.
This is a highly cross-functional role that blends product marketing, messaging, storytelling, content activation and creativity across multiple channels - events, campaigns, and field programs. Sound like you? We want to hear from you!
Your Impact
Translate Splunk + Cisco's cross-portfolio value into clear, compelling narratives for security and IT executives and practitioners
Identify and elevate storytelling opportunities around thought leadership themes like AI, digital resilience and data management
Drive content for events and field activation, including briefs, keynote decks, talk tracks, and demos
Build unified, ready-to-use assets that drive consistent, high-impact messaging across s,campaignsand customer conversations
Support event content strategy and activate use cases and customer stories that demonstrate our combined value
Partner with PMM, product, customer advocacy, campaigns, field marketing, and events to align and deliver cross-portfolio activations
Manage workflows across multiple initiatives and serve as the connective tissue across teams
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years in product marketing, solutionmarketing or content marketing in B2B tech(or equivalent experience with a relevant BA/BS)
Experience developing event content, presentations, and talk tracks
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Preferred Qualifications
Experience messaging to security, IT operations or engineering audiences-from practitioners to CISO/CIO/CTO
Comfortable partnering with senior leaders to shape messaging and executive narratives
Exceptional storyteller with the ability to turn complex tech into simple, compelling narratives
Proven ability toinfluence and collaborateacross cross-functional teams
Solid understanding of security and IT domains (or willingness to ramp quickly)
Strong executive presence with a creative, strategic, and bold point of view
Proven ability to manage complex projects and keep teams on track
Proficient with presentation and design tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc.)
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 $129,000.00 to $162,600.00 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.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
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:
$145,000.00 - $210,200.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$129,000.00 - $187,000.00
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.
