Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Product Manager to guide vision, strategy and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder. You will work with senior leadership and partners to enable enterprises to build, manage, and scale AI agent context, driving faster, more precise results.

In this high-impact role, you’ll lead strategic decisions, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and evangelize capabilities to a global developer community.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure or platform products.
• Deep technical understanding of AI/ML landscape including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases and context engineering.
• Bias to action with ability to move fast and learn from experiments; uses AI tools to accelerate decisions.
• Leadership across a matrixed org; aligns stakeholders toward a common vision in a remote-first setting.
• Outstanding spoken and written communication; translates complex engineering details for executives and engineers.
• Customer-obsessed; passionate about trends and solving real-world developer problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with enterprise customers, sales, and solution architects to understand requirements and priorities.
• Build, socialize and align a roadmap for core context engineering on Elastic Agent Builder.
• Understand AI Agent market and trends to inform strategy.
• Collaborate with data science and engineering to benchmark and evaluate agent capabilities.
• Partner with design to craft user experiences that show and refine context for agents.
• Evangelize Agent Builder capabilities via blogs and open source projects.
• Coordinate with cloud providers and the AI developer ecosystem.

Skills

Product management

AI/ML fluency

Leadership & influence

Communication

Customer obsession

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:

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is looking for a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder. As organizations shift from traditional data retrieval to autonomous, agentic workflows, the Agent Builder serves as the critical context layer that enables users to make Agents faster, lower cost, and more accurate. In this high-impact role, you will be responsible for defining how enterprises build, manage, and scale context for AI agents. You will work at the cutting edge of the AI ecosystem, working with senior leadership and partnering with hyperscalers and evangelizing our solutions to a global community of AI developers.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Work directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand requirements, negotiate priorities, clarify product needs
• Build, socialize and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on top of Elastic powered retrieval and relevance for AI Agents
• Deeply understand the AI Agent market, major players, trends and how it may impact our strategy
• Work directly data science and engineering to build out the strategy for benchmarking and evaluations of agent capabilities
• Work with design to build user experiences that address gaps in how agents show and refine context as they work
• Be the product expert and evangelize capabilities for Agent Builder through content like blog posts and open source projects
• Work with a broad ecosystem of AI partners including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers

What You Bring:

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products. A consistent record of leading sophisticated, data-intensive products from inception through launch and iterative growth.
• AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering. You are comfortable working closely with engineers and data scientists to solve intricate technical challenges.
• Bias to action: You are able to move fast and quickly learn from experiments and tests. You utilize AI tools to help accelerate your processes and bring clarity to your decisions.
• Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision, and drive execution in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills. You can distill complex engineering details into compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
• Customer Obsession: A passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems. You are an advocate for the developer persona and are dedicated to building products that empower users to innovate.

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

Security & Privacy Responsibilities: Take ownership of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and systems by following applicable privacy and security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic’s Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.

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.

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