Search - Principal Product Manager (Serverless)

Elastic

About The Position

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 Elastic seeks an exceptional Technical Principal Product Manager to lead our teams who are pioneering the capabilities for our fully managed Elasticsearch offering. Our Search team brings the capabilities of Elasticsearch and our platform to market for a large range of use cases including applied AI for agentic applications, and traditional search experiences. You will lead cross-team initiatives to define and deliver breakthrough technical features and platform capabilities. Our diverse, global team spans over 40 countries, building inclusive, user-focused products at significant scale.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Direct PM experience with search platforms, AI/ML platforms, or developer tooling is highly desirable.

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.

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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