Senior Director of Product Management, Elastic
Elasticsearch
$249.7-474k
Salary dependent on location + Stock program
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Open for applications
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$249.7-474k
Salary dependent on location + Stock program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- History of leading product teams working on deeply technical products that have been through a comparable growth-stage
- Strong technical background, preferably in related domains such as databases, distributed data stores and search; must have the ability to discuss technical concepts in detail
- Experience operating at scale in a product leadership role in similar companies, with cloud products targeting technical audiences
- A player-coach who can drive high-level strategy and execute alongside their team to deliver the needs of the customer first
- High EQ: bring technical and business acumen, compassion to the team, and someone who can help scale Elastic to the next level
- A low-ego and open-minded driver of business who cares deeply about their people. A natural problem solver
- Intellectually curious, player coach with a drive towards the end user
- Experience leading product management for multiple product lines. Can point to clear articulation of ownership and decision making across the product team and broader organization to drive business outcomes
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and client/user base
- Cultural ambassador who has attracted, retained and developed diverse Product teams
What the job involves
- The Elasticsearch product lead will manage, build, and scale Elasticsearch which is at the heart of Elastic - it’s the core search engine that everything we do at Elastic (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) is built on top of, and as such, this is a high impact and high visibility role
- Elasticsearch is one of the top 10 open source projects, ever, the responsibility to lead this product brings a lot of public attention with it
- You will focus on growth and bringing its long-term vision to life
- Lead and grow a team of top notch product managers
- Work with leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch including search functionality, storage strategies, query languages, analytics capabilities and cloud strategy and compatibility
- Partner with the engineering and technical leads to prioritize the roadmap and estimate realistic delivery timelines
- Work with downstream solution teams at Elastic to discover, align and prioritize their needs: understanding their use cases, timing requirements and helping think through phased approaches
- Interface with customers and the community for feedback and usage information to develop product insights
- Capture market competitive and trend data and inform product direction
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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