Senior Product Manager, Product Compliance

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Role Summary

As the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Sr. Product Manager, Product Compliance for Splunk's Products and Technology organization you will be working with a team of expert product compliance professionals to embed compliance requirements within Splunk’s products and services. You will leverage your vast product and data compliance expertise to partner directly with EMEA regulators and governing bodies on key issues and amplify Splunk’s thought leadership.

You will be a close ally to the Product and Engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle, influencing product roadmap in support of key compliance initiatives, and enabling speed to market while ensuring secure products. Combining strong technical understanding and both data and product compliance requirement knowledge, you will help translate controls into useful development practice. Redefining how compliance should be done in an innovative and dynamic environment.

The successful candidate will have strong experience navigating and influencing a rapidly evolving compliance landscape in EMEA, with an emphasis on data compliance management and data localization/sovereignty. The candidate partner with the product, engineering, sales, legal, data protection, and audit teams to chart a path that ensures that Splunk delivers on our corporate priorities while reinforcing our culture of compliance.

What you'll get to do

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

• Work as a critical member of the Product Compliance team to streamline compliant product delivery across the entire Splunk portfolio
• Develop and execute EMEA product and data compliance strategy and integrate evolving compliance requirements into product compliance strategy
• Provide subject matter expertise to product, engineering, and sales teams to meet various compliance regulatory requirements
• Serve as an informed advisor on a number of Commercial and Public Sector control sets, inclusive of Privacy concerns, to enable compliant product delivery
• Shape compliance landscape by directly influencing regulators and governing bodies related to product compliance requirements
• Participate in prioritization of compliance requirements including level of effort evaluations
• Drive visibility, predictability, and consistency around product security and compliance initiatives and incorporate into the broader Product Compliance roadmap
• Collaborate with Technical Program Management and Engineering, and help drive the development of standardized processes and procedures to integrate compliance requirements into produce development lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and implement plans for attaining and maintaining prioritized regulatory and industry product certifications and affirmations of compliance
• Understand the market and competition for use case support as a means of driving the adoption of Splunk technology
• Support product feature planning process and go-to-market activities

Must-have Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product compliance, preferably in a technical advisory capacity
• Experience with data compliance including localization and privacy frameworks (e.g. GDPR, EU Data Act, DORA)
• Experience partnering directly with regulators and governing bodies on compliance frameworks and certifications
• Strong sense of customer compassion to care deeply about customer problems and user experience
• Collaborative, with strong communication skills to translate sophisticated technical products and features into simple concepts and presentations
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote a culture of security and compliance
• Ability to make data-based and strategic business decisions driven by value, including making reasoned decisions in the face of uncertainty or imperfect data
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills characterized by visibility and conciseness with the ability to efficiently work with internal and external partners, including executive leadership
• Validated technology security and compliance experience (5+ years), and expertise in compliance and certification requirements across frameworks such as ISO 27001/27017/27018 SOC 2, C5, ACN, ENS)
• Relevant and industry-recognized professional security, compliance, and technology certifications are preferred (e.g CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC)
• Bachelor's degree in the relevant subject area is a minimum

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an 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.