Director, Data Ingestion Platform

Elastic; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic in the United Kingdom is seeking a seasoned Director of Product Management to own Streams end to end and lead the PM team behind it. You will shape the data ingestion, processing and routing strategy for Observability, Security, and Search, ensuring a self-serve experience for customers.

You will partner with product leaders, set KPIs, and guide feature delivery with engineering and design. The role requires 10+ years in product management, deep fluency in telemetry tooling, and success

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with leadership experience in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
• Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingestion and related tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing).
• Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing and platform capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing and routing, and the integrations framework.
• Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption.
• Partner with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service.
• Make data ingestion self-service with time-to-first-data measured in minutes.
• Lead a team of distributed product managers and enable them to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Drive roadmap priorities by working with customers, internal teams, and the community.
• Work with engineers and designers to scope and define compelling features.
• Enable sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning.

Skills

Product management

Team leadership

Data pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

SaaS pricing

Communication skills

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Elastic in the United Kingdom is seeking a seasoned Director of Product Management to own Streams end to end and lead the PM team behind it. You will shape the data ingestion, processing and routing strategy for Observability, Security, and Search, ensuring a self-serve experience for customers.

You will partner with product leaders, set KPIs, and guide feature delivery with engineering and design. The role requires 10+ years in product management, deep fluency in telemetry tooling, and success