Senior Director of Product Management, Elasticsearch

Senior Director of Product Management, Elasticsearch at Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The Senior Director of Product Management, Elasticsearch will manage, build, and scale Elasticsearch, which is at the heart of Elastic. It's the core search engine that everything Elastic does (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) is built on top of, making this a high-impact and high-visibility role. Elasticsearch is one of the top 10 open-source projects ever, and leading this product attracts significant public attention. You will focus on growth and bringing its long-term vision to life.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead and grow a team of top-notch product managers.
• Work with leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch, including search functionality, storage strategies, query languages, analytics capabilities, and cloud strategy and compatibility.
• Partner with engineering and technical leads to prioritize the roadmap and estimate realistic delivery timelines.
• Work with downstream solution teams at Elastic to discover, align, and prioritize their needs: understanding their use cases, timing requirements, and helping think through phased approaches.
• Interface with customers and the community for feedback and usage information to develop product insights.
• Capture market competitive and trend data and inform product direction.

What You Bring

• History of leading product teams working on deeply technical products that have been through a comparable growth-stage.
• Strong technical background, preferably in related domains such as databases, distributed data stores, and search; must have the ability to discuss technical concepts in detail.
• Experience operating at scale in a product leadership role in similar companies, with cloud products targeting technical audiences.
• A player-coach who can drive high-level strategy and execute alongside their team to deliver the needs of the customer first.
• High EQ: bring technical and business acumen, compassion to the team, and someone who can help scale Elastic to the next level.
• A low-ego and open-minded driver of business who cares deeply about their people. A natural problem solver.
• Intellectually curious, player-coach with a drive towards the end-user.
• Experience leading product management for multiple product lines. Can point to clear articulation of ownership and decision-making across the product team and broader organization to drive business outcomes.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and client/user base.
• Cultural ambassador who has attracted, retained, and developed diverse Product teams.

Key skills/competency

• Product Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Search Technologies
• Database Management
• Cloud Strategy
• Roadmap Definition
• Team Management
• Customer Engagement
• Market Analysis
• Open Source