Principal Product Manager, AI agents - Search

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder, focusing on enhancing AI agent capabilities and collaborating with various stakeholders.

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 or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products
• A consistent record of leading sophisticated, data-intensive products from inception 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