Global PR Director, Elastic
$160.3-304.2k
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160.3-304.2k
This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Salary varies depending on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading global PR in a high-growth tech company
- Strong track record of driving high-impact visibility across media and broader channels
- Experience driving the performance of regional teams and agencies across multiple regions
- Commercial mentality with an understanding how communications supports growth, pipeline, and market perception
- Confident working with senior team members and advising executives
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-growth environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Global PR Director to lead our external communications and drive high-impact outcomes across priority markets. This is a senior role responsible for ensuring product innovation is translated into clear, credible narratives that build trust with developers and economic buyers, and are amplified optimally across channels and markets
- You will own our global PR strategy, lead major campaigns and launches, and ensure we consistently land differentiated stories across media, social, podcasts, and speaking platforms. You will work closely with Product, Marketing, Developer Marketing, Social, and regional teams to drive aligned execution and ensure consistent rollout across markets and channels. This role reports to the Head of Global Communications
- PR is a core lever for how we build credibility and differentiate in the market. This role ensures we show up with a clear, consistent, and compelling narrative globally and translate it into sustained visibility and influence across channels
- Define and implement a global PR strategy aligned to company priorities and positioning
- Ensure product innovation is consistently translated into strong, repeatable narratives that build credibility with technical and economic audiences
- Drive high-impact visibility across media, social, podcasts, and speaking opportunities in key markets
- Lead global campaign planning and major launches, ensuring coordinated, consistent rollout across regions and channels
- Collaborate closely with Social, Product, Marketing, and Developer Marketing teams to ensure alignment and coordinated execution
- Lead and optimize team and agency performance across markets, ensuring consistent quality and impact
- Identify and prioritize the opportunities that will most optimally build visibility and market credibility across channels
- Partner with executive and product teams to develop a strong, credible spokesperson bench
- Measure and improve performance, focusing on outcomes not activity
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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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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