Director, Data Ingestion Platforms – Flexible Location

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Director of Product Management for Streams to own data ingestion, processing and routing end-to-end and lead the PM team behind it. You will define strategy and roadmap, partner with Observability, Security, and Search leaders, make data ingestion self-service, and drive measurable outcomes with a distributed team in a cloud-first environment.

This role requires deep telemetry fluency and SaaS product leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with leadership of PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
• Deep fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.
• Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing and platform capabilities shared by multiple product lines.

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 getting data ingestion self-service, with time-to-first-data 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

Telemetry ingestion

SaaS pricing

Communication skills

Elastic Stack familiarity

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Log processing

Routing

Agent management

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Log processing

Routing

Agent management

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Director of Product Management for Streams to own data ingestion, processing and routing end-to-end and lead the PM team behind it. You will define strategy and roadmap, partner with Observability, Security, and Search leaders, make data ingestion self-service, and drive measurable outcomes with a distributed team in a cloud-first environment.

This role requires deep telemetry fluency and SaaS product leadership.