Senior Director of Product Marketing, Observability

Elastic

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About The Position

Elastic is seeking a leader to helm its Observability Product Marketing team. The role partners with company and product leadership to define marketing, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for Elastic Observability, serving SREs and decision makers. The successful candidate brings a record of leading teams to strong results, deep technical understanding of observability solutions, and nuanced knowledge of market technologies and competitive dynamics. They will develop compelling, authentic, differentiated positioning and serve as a technical product marketing lead and internal authority on developer and SRE personas.

The role leads a growing global team, develops talent, sets observability marketing strategy, and represents Elastic in speaking engagements, conferences, and press interviews. It works cross-functionally with leadership, product, sales, and marketing in a highly distributed company.

Requirements

• Several years of experience creating outbound messaging and content that resonates with a technical SRE audience.
• Experience building, scaling, and leading global teams of 5–10 people.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Technical depth in relevant products, solutions, and industries, with the ability to learn quickly and work hands-on with the product.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with a highly distributed team.
• Leadership experience and a record of leading teams to achieve strong results.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as an observability practitioner.
• Familiarity with Elastic products.
• Creative energy, willingness to challenge established approaches, and out-of-the-box thinking.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership on market trends and competing solutions.
• Work effectively with company leadership, Product, Sales, and Marketing.
• Lead the growing Observability Product Marketing team, including hiring and talent development.
• Set Observability marketing strategy, including messaging, technical content, priorities, field enablement, and go-to-market plans.
• Articulate Elastic’s positioning and differentiation from similar offerings and serve as an expert on competitive capabilities.
• Create, curate, and present content for the web, press releases, executive briefings, blogs, and sales enablement.
• Develop expertise in target personas and segments, customer purchasing and product adoption, and customer value.
• Represent the company at speaking engagements, conferences, and press interviews.
• Act as a technical product marketing lead for Elastic Observability.
• Serve as an internal authority on developer and SRE personas.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work performed, not previous salary.
• Health coverage for employees and their families in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous annual vacation days.
• Matching of up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
• At least 16 weeks of parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed