Engineering Manager, AI Chat Platform – Distributed Team

Elasticsearch B.V.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matches up to $2000

Volunteer hours (40 per year)

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Chat team within the Agents and Context group. You will lead a distributed team of engineers, own the roadmap, and partner with PMs/Tech Leads to deliver high‑quality, grounded AI chat capabilities.

You will hire, coach, and manage performance, shaping practices and processes while maintaining a calm, clear leadership style in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an established engineering manager with hiring, coaching and performance management.
• Experience delivering large multi‑team software initiatives in a distributed async-first environment.
• Hands-on software engineering background with enough depth to understand a TypeScript/Node/React stack and Elasticsearch-backed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the Chat roadmap: break into milestones, manage risk, ship predictably.
• Run hiring end to end for the team: job descriptions, interview loops, sourcing, onboarding.
• Coach and develop engineers at every level with 1:1s, clear expectations and feedback.
• Run performance management: promotions, development plans, addressing underperformance.
• Partner with Tech Lead and PM to shape roadmap and priorities across teams.
• Improve team processes (planning, async comms, release, on‑call) by writing clearly and building consensus.
• Represent the team to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Engineering management

Hiring and promotions

Performance management

Distributed leadership

TypeScript/Node/React familiarity

Elasticsearch/Kibana understanding

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Chat team within the Agents and Context group. You will lead a distributed team of engineers, own the roadmap, and partner with PMs/Tech Leads to deliver high‑quality, grounded AI chat capabilities.

You will hire, coach, and manage performance, shaping practices and processes while maintaining a calm, clear leadership style in a fast-moving environment.