Key skills
Product managementTechnical backgroundCloud products experienceMarket analysisTeam leadershipCultural ambassadorIntellectual curiosityProblem solvingEmotional intelligenceGlobal team collaborationAIAnalyticsElasticsearchLeadershipProduct ManagementDecision Making
About this role
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. The Elasticsearch product lead will manage, build, and scale Elasticsearch, focusing on growth and bringing its long-term vision to life while leading a team of product managers and collaborating with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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