Director of Product Operations, Elastic
Travel up to 25%
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
Be an early applicant
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Travel up to 25%
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of product management experience with 8+ years in cybersecurity and enterprise software, including 5+ years in director-level leadership roles leading product teams and driving cross-functional initiatives
- 5+ years specifically in SIEM, security analytics, threat detection, or related security platforms with success in building and scaling AI/ML-powered security products
- Experience with enterprise security sales cycles, large-scale deployments, and building product operations at scale
- Experience in SIEM architectures, security data lakes, enterprise security analytics platforms, and AI/ML applications in cybersecurity including behavioral analytics and threat detection
- Understanding of big data platforms (Elasticsearch, cloud-native architectures, streaming analytics), security orchestration (SOAR), and threat intelligence platforms
- Knowledge of enterprise security operations workflows, SOC management, natural language processing for security use cases, and product operations standard methodologies including metrics frameworks and process optimization
- Exceptional leadership and team development capabilities with experience managing managers, critical thinking and execution perfection
- Outstanding social skills with ability to influence executive team members, combined with data-driven decision making and strong analytical problem-solving abilities
- Passionate curiosity about the evolving cybersecurity landscape
- Strategic approach with attention to operational detail and market dynamics
- BS/MS degree in engineering, computer science, information security, or other related subject area
What the job involves
- We're seeking a strategic PM Director to play a key role in scaling our AI-driven SIEM product portfolio while building world-class product operations capabilities
- Join our Elastic Security leadership team and drive the strategic direction of groundbreaking solutions that empower organizations to gain AI-driven insights across their security ecosystem, detect sophisticated threats, and orchestrate proactive defense strategies at enterprise scale!
- Be prepared to travel up to 25% to engage with enterprise customers, attend industry events, and collaborate with distributed team members
- Lead cross-portfolio roadmap planning and prioritization
- Drive product vision through presentations to executive leadership and enterprise customers
- Establish product positioning in the evolving SIEM/security analytics market
- Be responsible for product lifecycle for our security analytics solutions from concept to market
- Build coordinated roadmaps balancing innovation with reliable delivery
- Drive product-market fit through customer engagement and competitive intelligence
- Establish and improve product operations frameworks, processes, and metrics
- Implement data-driven analytics, critical metric tracking, and performance measurement
- Optimize development workflows, release processes, and cross-functional teamwork
- Drive operational excellence in launches, rollouts, and customer adoption
- Mentor a team of product managers
- Cultivate a culture of innovation and operational excellence
- Collaborate with engineering on technical architecture and development priorities
- Partner with design to ensure exceptional user experiences
- Engage with customers, analysts, and practitioners to validate product direction
- Collaborate on go-to-market strategies and competitive positioning
- Drive customer advisory programs and feedback loops
Our take
Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.
This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.
Simon Willnauer
(Co-Founder)Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.
Uri Boness
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.
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