Program Manager, Strategic Projects

Elastic; United States; Remote; USD 107,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock program

401k matching

Health coverage

Flexible location

Vacation days

Volunteer time

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Marketing Program Manager to join the Marketing PMO, focusing on planning, coordinating and delivering strategic initiatives across the marketing organization. You will partner with a Strategic Projects Program Manager and cross-functional teams to bring structure to ambiguity and keep projects on track.

Responsibilities include end-to-end planning, maintaining plans and docs, aligning teams, mitigating risks, designing workflows, and providing clear updates.

Qualifications

• Experience managing cross-functional projects in marketing
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Comfort working cross-functionally with distributed teams
• Excellent, proactive communication skills to lead meetings and drive alignment
• Love for process and mapping timelines, improving them iteratively
• 3-6 years of project or program management experience
• Familiarity with project management tools like Workfront or similar platforms

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of multiple high-priority marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with goals and timelines.
• Maintain project plans, timelines, documentation, and tracking tools to stay organized.
• Act as the strategic connector between cross-functional teams and marketing executives, facilitating collaboration and decisions.
• Identify, map, and mitigate complex dependencies and risks across projects.
• Adapt to changing priorities and keep teams aligned as plans evolve.
• Evaluate current marketing operations and design workflows to improve coordination and efficiency.
• Provide clear updates and roadmaps, communicating project health, risks and milestones.
• Help remove blockers by coordinating across teams and defining next steps.

Skills

Cross-functional PM

Multi-tasking

Cross-functional collaboration

Proactive communication

Process mapping

PM experience 3-6 yrs

Tools

Workfront

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 is looking for a Marketing Program Manager to join the Marketing PMO team, focused on supporting the execution of strategic projects and operational initiatives across the marketing organization. You will partner closely with an existing Strategic Projects Program Manager, as well as cross-functional teams, to help plan, coordinate, and deliver key initiatives that drive alignment and improve how marketing operates. To be successful in this role, you should be highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable running multiple work streams. You're someone who is proactive in nature and enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity, keeping projects on track, and ensuring teams are aligned and moving forward.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of multiple high-priority marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and timelines.
• Maintain project plans, timelines, project documentation, and tracking tools to keep organized and on schedule.
• Act as the strategic connective tissue between cross-functional teams and marketing executives, facilitating collaboration and driving consensus on critical decisions.
• Proactively identify, map, and mitigate complex cross-project dependencies and risks.
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities, helping teams stay focused and aligned as plans evolve.
• Evaluate current marketing operations and processes, then design and implement workflows and governance models to improve coordination and efficiency across teams.
• Partner with the project team and leaders to provide clear, actionable updates and roadmaps, ensuring transparency around project health, risks, and milestones.
• Help remove blockers by coordinating across teams and ensuring next steps are clear.

What You Bring

• Previous experience managing cross functional projects in a marketing organization
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Comfort working cross-functionally with distributed teams, and the ability to build strong working relationships with them
• Excellent, proactive communication skills with an ability to lead meetings and drive alignment
• A love for process and an understanding of how to map out team processes/timelines, improve upon them, and iterate.
• 3-6 years of experience in project or program management
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Workfront or similar platforms)

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: $106,900 - $169,100 USD.

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $128,200 - $202,700 USD.

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.

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

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