Lead Product Manager, Telemetry & Edge Collection

PowerToFly; United States; On-site; USD 159,800 - 303,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Telemetry collection within the Observability team to drive strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors, Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), alongside Filebeat and Logstash.

You will own the vision for remote management, Kubernetes releases, OpenTelemetry integration, and cross-functional leadership with engineering, UX, and marketing, shaping enterprise telemetry pipelines.

Qualifications

• At least five years in Product Management focusing on enterprise infrastructure observability.
• Deep technical familiarity with collectors, log shippers, and agent ecosystems such as the OpenTelemetry Collector, Elastic Agent, Filebeat/Beats, and Logstash.
• Proven track record in defining requirements for remote agent management, fleet control planes, or distributed edge collection systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts, alongside a solid understanding of cloud-native orchestration and release management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear business goals.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and execution roadmap for the Elastic Agent framework, Fleet Server/Service, and telemetry collectors.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Define and track KPIs focused on agent deployment success, pipeline efficiency, and the adoption of our OTel distributions.
• Agent Architecture & Distribution: Oversee packaging, testing, and distribution of the Elastic Agent and EDOT distributions.
• Remote Management & Control: Drive remote management capabilities for Elastic Agent, Fleet Server, and collector infrastructure at scale.
• Kubernetes Management & Releases: Drive vision and release strategy for cloud-native deployments, focusing on Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts.

Skills

Product Management

Enterprise observability

Telemetry collection

OpenTelemetry

Distributed edge systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm Charts

Filebeat/Beats

Logstash

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Telemetry collection within the Observability team to drive strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors, Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), alongside Filebeat and Logstash.

You will own the vision for remote management, Kubernetes releases, OpenTelemetry integration, and cross-functional leadership with engineering, UX, and marketing, shaping enterprise telemetry pipelines.