Key skills
Product ManagementCloud InfrastructurePlatform ProductsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLarge Language ModelsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationVector DatabasesContext EngineeringCustomer ObsessionAIMLRAGCommunicationSales
About this role
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder, focusing on building, managing, and scaling context for AI agents.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand requirements, negotiate priorities, clarify product needs
- Build, socialize and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on top of Elastic powered retrieval and relevance for AI Agents
- Deeply understand the AI Agent market, major players, trends and how it may impact our strategy
- Work directly data science and engineering to build out the strategy for benchmarking and evaluations of agent capabilities
- Work with design to build user experiences that address gaps in how agents show and refine context as they work
- Be the product expert and evangelize capabilities for Agent Builder through content like blog posts and open source projects
- Work with a broad ecosystem of AI partners including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in product management for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products
- A proven track record of leading complex, data-intensive products from ideation through launch and iterative growth
- Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering
- Ability to work closely with engineers and data scientists to solve intricate technical challenges
- Ability to move fast and quickly learn from experiments and tests
- Utilization of AI tools to help accelerate processes and bring clarity to decisions
- Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization
- Ability to align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision
- Ability to drive execution in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills
- Ability to distill complex engineering details into compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems
- Advocacy for the developer persona and dedication to building products that empower users to innovate