Platform - Director of Product, Search and Analytics

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

PLEASE NOTE: for U.S. and Canada we expect to focus only on eastern time zones (EDT / CDT).

The Elasticsearch Product Lead will manage, build, and scale Elasticsearch which is at the heart of Elastic - it’s the core search engine that everything we do at Elastic (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) is built on top of, and as such, this is a high impact and high visibility role. Elasticsearch is one of the top 10 open source projects, ever, the responsibility to lead this product brings a lot of public attention with it. You will focus on growth and bringing its long-term vision to life.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and grow a team of top notch product managers.
• Define the vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch including search functionality, storage strategies, query languages, analytics and capabilities and cloud compatibility.
• Partner with the engineering and technical leads to prioritise the roadmap and estimate realistic delivery timelines.
• Work with downstream solution teams at Elastic to discover, align and prioritise 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 feedback and usage information to develop product insights.
• Capture market competitive and trend data and inform product direction.

What you bring along:

• 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 engines; 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 organisation 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

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includ