SEO Program Manager, Elastic
$128.2-243.3k
Salary dependent on location
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
$128.2-243.3k
Salary dependent 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
- 5+ years of hands-on SEO experience as an SEO strategist (or similar role) in high-tech, B2B software sales, agency, and/or PLG business model
- Experience with SEO and AIO tools like SEMrush, Profound, Botify, Screaming Frog, Google Search Console (GSC), and Google Analytics (GA4)
- Strong analytical skills and experience building and integrating SEO reporting/dashboards in Looker, Google Analytics (GA4), and Botify (or similar tool)
- Project management experience driving SEO improvements (bonus points for experience using project management tools like Github, and Adobe Workfront!)
- Comfortable working on a fully distributed team around the world
- Able to take ownership and lead through ambiguity
- Bonus: SEMRush-certified or technically writing portfolio
What the job involves
- Elastic is seeking an SEO program manager to join our Discoverability and Globalization team, to help set and execute SEO strategy
- The SEO program manager will help implement our annual SEO program, with a focus and passion for growing Elastic’s brand search visibility, growing our website traffic and conversions, and driving continuous SEO improvements across elastic.co
- You are a subject matter authority in search engine optimization and an excellent communicator who is excited to evangelize and drive adoption of SEO best practices
- You understand the nuances of SEO content and are able to use SEO reporting tools to formulate data-driven insights and advise marketing and non-marketing teams on how to continuously improve organic content. You are always learning and are up to speed on AI Optimization trends and tools
- Do you value teamwork and take an inclusive approach to collaboration? You might be the next Elastician!
- As a member of the Discoverability and Globalization, you will co-create an Elastic SEO center of excellence with consistent SEO principles, standard processes, and experimentation to guide continuous search visibility and web traffic growth
- Lead the development of SEO strategy for technical elastic.co properties (i.e., Elk stack/platform content, Docs, and Labs)
- Collaborate to build annual goals and metrics with Elastic marketing analytics, technical site owners, and external agencies
- Serve as the SEO authority for new web migrations, web refreshes, redesigns, or other website improvements
- Leverage SEO tools to produce in-depth keyword and prompt research and competitive analysis, search intent/behavior research, and recommendations for new technical content (topics, formats, etc.)
- Establish and scale SEO standards and compliance, including, but not limited to, on-page narrative refreshes/rewrites, metadata improvements, copy optimizations, schema markup improvements, meta tags enhancements, cross-linking, etc
- Provide SEO training to product and engineering teams to improve search visibility for technical organic content
- In collaboration with our Technical SEO specialist, conduct comprehensive technical SEO audits using our SEO tool, Botify, to identify and resolve technical issues impacting elastic.co such as crawl errors, improper canonicalization, page indexation issues, slow page speed, etc
- Monitor search performance metrics, using Elastic dashboards and/or reports, and host monthly syncs to review and assist stakeholders optimize webpage content, improve user engagement, and identify new organic content opportunities
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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