Director of Product Management, Observability

Referral Board; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401k matching

Vacation time

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Director of Product Management for Observability to own Streams end-to-end and lead the PM team behind it. You will drive data ingestion strategy, define KPIs, and partner with Observability, Security, and Search leaders to provide a shared service.

You will lead a distributed PM team delivering measurable outcomes and enable data ingestion for customers and partners. You will collaborate with engineers and designers to scope features and craft clear messaging for sales and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, incl. 4+ years leading PM teams in data infra/observability.
• Deep fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing.
• Experience shipping SaaS with usage-based pricing and shared platform capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with Elastic Stack is a plus.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Product management

PM leadership

Communication

SaaS pricing

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Elastic Stack

Job description

Director of Product Management, Observability

United States

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

Every outcome on the Elastic platform starts with data getting in. Streams, Elastic’s telemetry pipeline, is the shared ingest layer for Observability, Security, and Search. It collects data from any source, processes and routes it, and stores it in Elasticsearch or the customer’s own object storage, all built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. As Director of Product Management, you will own Streams end to end and lead the PM team behind it. Your job is to make Elastic the easiest platform to bring data to, for every solution and every customer.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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 everyone can leverage
• Make getting 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

What You Bring

• 10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
• Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.
• Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing, and building platform capabilities shared by several product lines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack is a plus

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$199,700 - $315,900 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$239,800 - $379,300 USD

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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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