Senior Product Manager, Search

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is the Role

Elastic is looking for an outstanding product mind to join the Search team and help define the future of search and Elasticsearch at Elastic. The Search team 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 your focus will be to understand the goals of the developers who are creating these search experiences and help define and prioritize the user experience that will inform and delight their journey. 

The Elastic family unites employees across 40+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries. With such diversity, Elastic is in a truly unique position to build products that are inclusive and user-focused, no matter the use case. In fact, chances are you’ve used the products we build quite a few times today without knowing. That’s the scale we think and operate at.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading the roadmap for a new product line 

• Working alongside our software engineers, and design team to define product features and initiatives across the Search 

• Prioritizing the capabilities ranging from API, to integration libraries and more to ensure great end to end search experiences 

• Collaborating with our community and developer tooling team to enable the needs of different technical stacks (e.g. static, dynamic languages), including usage of LLM and machine learning. 

• Capturing market data, customer feedback, customer usage data, and other key information to develop product insights and help drive the product roadmap 

• Analyzing and addressing competitive dynamics within the product category.

What You Bring

• Relevant Experience launching and building a search application for use cases such as customer support, Enterprise Search

• Proven experience  in Product Management, preferably in a developer-focused product environment

• Startup-mentality and experience appreciated.

• Outstanding spoken and written communication and storytelling skills! 

• Working knowledge of SaaS and/or IaaS product domains, including common design patterns, workflows, and delivery mechanisms.

• Empathy for the challenges of builders & operators turning them into opportunities in the short and long-term.

• A marked interest in new market-defining technologies such as vector search algorithms and machine learning is highly regarded.

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 incl