Elastic · 3 hours ago
Search - Principal Product Manager (Serverless)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $304K/yrElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. They are seeking a Technical Principal Product Manager to lead teams in pioneering capabilities for their fully managed Elasticsearch offering, focusing on driving adoption and delivering technical innovations in search and AI-driven relevance.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead the strategic vision and execution to drive adoption and scale of our fully managed Elasticsearch offering
P&L ownership: Be accountable for driving rapid growth and adoption of Elasticsearch, with continued evaluation of our pricing, packaging, margins and COGS of released features
Cross-Team Initiative Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives with engineering, platform, and research teams to deliver groundbreaking technical innovations in search, vector storage, and AI-driven relevance, reflecting a strong track record in leading significant product initiatives and multi-platform integration programs
Architectural Evolution: Champion the evolution of Elastic's search architecture, focusing on driving unique usage of object store for storage and retrieval, and to elevate how we define our autoscaling behaviors for different search workloads
Technical Product Ownership: Write detailed product artifacts such as PRDs, PRFAQs for new search language constructs and vector database features, ensuring developer usability, based on experience managing developer platforms and launching developer-facing services
Provide Customer and Competitive Insights & Research: Conduct in-depth market analysis, competitive technical assessments, and engage with thought leaders to inform the technical roadmap, consistent with research and strategic product definition
Developer & Community Engagement: Collaborate with developers, data scientists, and the open-source community to gather feedback, validate designs, and drive adoption of new capabilities, leveraging experience in developer relations and growing feature adoption
Qualification
Required
History of owning and driving SaaS product lines or services
P&L responsibility over prior projects
Demonstrated leadership in defining and launching complex technical products in search, databases, query languages, or AI/ML platforms
Deep expertise in understanding of distributed systems, cloud services, data platforms, and cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS ML services)
Exceptional communication skills for complex technical concepts
Curiosity to truly understand the technology that serves the majority of the world's search experiences
Deep empathy for developer challenges, translating them into product opportunities
Experience defining technical value propositions and competitive differentiation
Strong interest and understanding of cutting-edge technologies like vector databases, ML, and generative AI (e.g., RAG, LLM integration)
Ability to read and understand code (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and engage in technical discussions, reflecting a strong technical foundation including past software engineering roles
Preferred
Direct PM experience with search platforms, AI/ML platforms, or developer tooling is highly desirable
Benefits
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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