Enterprise Search - Senior Product Manager- AI/ML

Elastic is an open source 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

Elastic is looking for an outstanding product mind to join the Enterprise Search team and help define the future of search at Elastic. The Enterprise Search team at Elastic is responsible for building the features, tools, and products that enable our customers to create great search experiences of their own. These search experiences span use cases from website search and intranet search, all the way to powering database search implementations and entire applications with search as a core part of the development stack, using the latest advances in machine learning and semantic search to support the most advanced of needs. As a Senior Product Manager on our team, your job will be to understand the goals of users who are creating these search experiences with Elastic’s products and help define and prioritize the delivery of features that ensure their success. 

What You Will Be Doing

• Working alongside our software engineers, you will define product features and initiatives across the Enterprise Search product for the broad set of search use cases.
• Prioritizing the components of the product roadmap and helping ensure feature development can proceed efficiently. 
• Meeting with existing and prospective customers to better understand their goals and gather feedback on how our products can best address their challenges.
• Capturing market data, customer feedback, customer usage data, and other key information to develop product insights and help drive the product roadmap.
• Meeting with existing and prospective customers in a Sales support capacity to assist their understanding of our product suite and how it can help them address their needs.
• Assisting with Product Marketing efforts to develop messaging and collateral and deliver that information to stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Analyzing and addressing competitive dynamics within the product category.

What You Bring Along

• 3 years of experience in Product Management, preferably in a developer-focused product environment.
• Outstanding spoken and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of SaaS and/or IaaS product domains, including common design patterns, workflows, and delivery mechanisms.
• A deep understanding of cloud-based product APIs, authentication methods, and general web application technology. 
• Empathy for customer challenges and needs, turning them into opportunities in the short and long-term.
• Experience building customer value and highlighting competitive differentiation through packaging and pricing.
• A marked interest in new market-defining technologies such as vector search algorithms and machine learning is highly regarded.
• Direct product management experience building search and/or modern workplace productivity products is helpful but not required.

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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 includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along wit