AI Ecosystem Architect: Strategic Partnerships & Prototyping

Elastic; Washington; Hybrid; USD 184,200 - 291,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking an AI Ecosystem Architect to own technical strategy and relationships with OpenAI and Anthropic. This role drives co-build integrations, shapes product strategy, and creates go-to-market content to enable customers to apply frontier AI to unstructured data.

You will lead reference architectures, prototypes, and security/observability considerations while coordinating with Elastic teams. Expect travel to partner offices and events as needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical presales, partner engineering, solutions architecture, or product management.
• Proven experience owning technical relationships with strategic AI or platform partners.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes and integration demos.
• Track record of influencing roadmaps and partner priorities.
• Strong communication across audiences; willing to travel up to 30%.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical integration and co-create go-to-market content with Elastic product teams.
• Serve as Elastic's technical voice inside OpenAI and Anthropic ecosystems.
• Build reference architectures and prototypes showing Elasticsearch as the retrieval layer for agentic AI.
• Influence Elastic's product roadmap with feedback from ecosystems.
• Represent Elastic at AI partner events and translate integrations into enablement.

Skills

Technical presales

Partner engineering

Solutions architecture

Product management

Technical relationships

OpenAI/Anthropic partnerships

Prototype development

Job description

Elastic is seeking an AI Ecosystem Architect to own technical strategy and relationships with OpenAI and Anthropic. This role drives co-build integrations, shapes product strategy, and creates go-to-market content to enable customers to apply frontier AI to unstructured data.

You will lead reference architectures, prototypes, and security/observability considerations while coordinating with Elastic teams. Expect travel to partner offices and events as needed.