Senior Product Manager, Platform

Elasticsearch B.V.; Remote; CAD 128,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Search AI company in Canada seeks a Senior Product Manager for their Cloud Infrastructure. This role involves defining product strategy, leading FinOps initiatives, and ensuring efficient performance and reliability in cloud services. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in product management, cloud platforms, and FinOps optimization. Work with engineering and stakeholders to drive the evolution of Elastic Cloud, aligning with customer needs and company goals. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive pay based on work produced

Health coverage for employee and family

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

Financial donation matching up to $2000

Volunteer project support with 40 hours per year

Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Product Management, ideally in a technical, cloud infrastructure environment.
• Strong experience driving FinOps initiatives focused on cost vs. performance.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead product vision and strategy for Elastic Cloud infrastructure.
• Own infrastructure cost efficiency with a focus on COGS optimization.
• Translate customer feedback into product initiatives.

Skills

Product Management

FinOps initiatives

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Data-driven decision making

Job description

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:

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager, Infrastructure to lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for the Elastic Cloud infrastructure, spanning Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless.

This role is foundational to Elastic’s growth. Your mission is to ensure Elastic Cloud is the best place for customers to run Elastic workloads—delivering efficient performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency at global scale.

You will partner with engineering, program management, technical leads, finance and cross‑functional teams to define platform strategy, prioritize high‑impact investments, and drive execution. A key focus of this role is FinOps leadership and COGS optimization, ensuring Elastic Cloud scales sustainably while meeting customer needs. You will also work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to deeply understand pain points and ensure the platform evolves to support their most critical workloads.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Define and lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Elastic Cloud infrastructure across Hosted and Serverless, aligned with customer outcomes and company goals.
• Own infrastructure cost efficiency and FinOps initiatives, with a strong focus on identifying, prioritizing, and delivering COGS optimization opportunities across compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Translate customer feedback, internal requirements, operational insights, and market trends into clear product initiatives and priorities.
• Collaborate with engineering and program management to scope, plan, and launch infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Act as a customer advocate for developers, operators, and end users, ensuring the platform supports a wide range of workloads and use cases.
• Define, track, and communicate product success metrics, using data to inform decisions, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience in Product Management, ideally in a technical, cloud infrastructure or platform teams.
• Strong experience driving FinOps initiatives or COGS optimization for cloud platforms, including trade‑off decisions between cost, performance, and reliability.
• Background in building or leading cloud‑native platforms, infrastructure products, or internal developer platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms, with a solid understanding of operational models, workloads, and scaling challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to own and drive the full product lifecycle, from ideation and strategy through launch and iteration.
• Ability to operate with autonomy and a high degree of ownership in fast‑paced environments.
• Humble attitude — we are here for the success of the team and the company.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with multi‑tenant platforms, serverless architecture, or internal tooling ecosystems.
• Experience with Elastic Cloud, Elastic Stack or similar cloud‑based search and analytics platforms/products.
• Experience or willingness to work in a distributed, remote‑first organization.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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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.

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 Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well‑being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$128,300—$203,000 CAD