Product Design Manager, Elastic
Security - UX
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Job no longer available
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in product design management
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Experience with managing product design roadmaps and delivering products on time
- Ability to mentor and support designers to help them develop their skills and careers
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity
- Experience with cross-functional collaboration and ability to work with stakeholders from multiple departments
- Excellent understanding of design principles, trends, and best practices
- Ability to balance attention to detail with the ability to stay focused on the big picture
- Understanding and experience designing UIs that handle extensive data
- Strong background in SaaS platform design and usability
- Proficiency in creating and improving complex workflow designs
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Product Design Manager who excels in both leadership and hands-on contribution
- While your primary focus will be on managing and mentoring a team, you’ll also be ready to roll up your sleeves to review designs and provide clear direction, and actionable guidance
- You’ll lead a team driving innovation in GenAI-powered UX, Advanced Analytics, Analyst experiences, and Investigation workflows, making a substantial impact on our Security solution
- Your role will include shaping and overseeing the product design roadmap, supporting the team in aligning their work with the broader security design strategy, and fostering a culture of excellence and growth
- Collaborating closely with other design managers, you will align on priorities and approaches to ensure a cohesive and consistent user experience across Elastic’s portfolio
- You’ll also work alongside the Design Director to evolve and refine Elastic’s security design strategy, maintaining a balance between strategic oversight and diving into details to support timely and high-quality execution
- Key responsibilities include removing blockers for your team, providing strategic guidance aligned with our overarching design vision, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects
- You will contribute to advancing design excellence within Elastic Security by collaborating with other solution design teams, the central design system team, and cross-functional partners
- Your work will help shape design systems, cross-organizational design processes, and foster alignment to ensure consistency and scalability across Elastic’s products
- Support, influence, and lead the creation and management of the product design roadmap in line with the broader security design strategy
- Mentor and support designers, helping them to develop their skills and careers
- Work with other design managers to prioritize projects and align design approaches, taking a holistic view of the user experience and ensuring that it is consistent across all products and platforms
- Manage the team's work balance to ensure optimal productivity and creativity, while also paying close attention to the details of the design process and the user experience
- Help execute projects on time by ensuring that the team is meeting milestones and deadlines
- Unblock projects by providing clear tactical directions that are inline with the design strategy
- Dive into details while staying strategic, balancing the need for excellence in execution with the need to be responsive to business needs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design is integrated into product development
Application process
- NOTE: Applications without a link to a Portfolio or a Case Study will not be considered
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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