Director of Product Management, Observability

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years

Job description

Director of Product Management at Elastic, owning the Streams telemetry pipeline end to end and leading the PM team behind it. The role makes Elastic the easiest platform to bring data to for every solution and customer.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote

What you'll do

  • Own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing and routing, and the integrations framework
  • Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption
  • Partner with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service everyone can leverage
  • Make getting data ingestion self-service, with time-to-first-data measured in minutes
  • Lead a team of distributed product managers and enable them to deliver measurable outcomes
  • Drive roadmap priorities by working with customers, internal teams, and the community
  • Work with engineers and designers to scope and define compelling features
  • Enable sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines
  • Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management
  • Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing, and building platform capabilities shared by several product lines
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with the Elastic Stack

Your team

Streams

Streams is Elastic's telemetry pipeline and the shared ingest layer for Observability, Security, and Search; it collects data from any source, processes and routes it, and stores it in Elasticsearch or the customer's own object storage, built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

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
  • 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
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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About Elastic

The Search AI Company

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.

Mission

Enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

Key facts

  • The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500
  • Distributed company
  • Offers complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability

What they value

  • Diversity drives our identity
  • Balance great work with great life
  • We take care of our people
  • We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals