Principal Product Manager, Elastic
Ingest, Cloud Pipelines
$179.8-273.5k
Salary dependent on location. Eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program
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
$179.8-273.5k
Salary dependent on location. Eligible to participate in Elastic's 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 data products working on deeply technical products that have been through a comparable growth-stage
- Strong technical background, preferably in related domains such as edge data collection; ETL for observability or security data, and must have the ability to discuss technical concepts in detail
- A person who can drive strategy and execute alongside their team to deliver the needs of the customer first
- High EQ: bring technical expertise and kindness 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
- 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
What the job involves
- The Ingest team at Elastic is responsible for some of the most popular open source data collection tools in the world
- We are responsible for OpenTelemetry Collector, Integrations platform as a marketplace like experience to discover and build third party integrations to bring data into elastic stack, and data transformation and processing tooling of our cloud pipelines
- The Cloud Pipeline Product Manager drives the user experience and tooling for data collection, data transformation, enrichment and data routing
- The two personas that we closely work with, are Cloud-native Observability and Security users. Cloud-native Observability customers want real-time data about their Serverless, Kubernetes, and CSP-Specific services. Security users want to know where they are vulnerable, when an intrusion happened, and how to stop it
- In addition to our own data pipeline products, we also need to ensure that we integrate with industry relevant data pipeline solutions such as confluent kafka, cribl etc
- As a product manager, you will be responsible for driving product strategy coherency and execution and help increase adoption of data pipeline products across these two user segments
- Define the vision and roadmap for Data Plane products at Elastic including significant parts of OpenTelemetry, Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent, including data collection and enrichment
- Define the vision and roadmap for our SaaS offerings around Ingest products including cloud pipelines, hosted collectors and more
- 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
- Work with our Sales & Marketing teams on go-to-market, messaging, competitive analysis, and enablement
- 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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