Elastic is an open source search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co
Elastic is looking for an outstanding product mind to join the Search team and help define the future of search at Elastic. The Search team is responsible for building the features, tools, and products that enable our customers to create great search experiences of their own. These search experiences span use cases from website search and intranet search, all the way to powering database search implementations and entire applications with search as a core part of the development stack, using the latest advances in machine learning and semantic search to support the most advanced of needs. As a Senior Product Manager your focus will be to understand the goals of users who are creating these search experiences and help define and prioritize the user experience that will inform and delight their journey.
At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the Elastic Stack, which comprises the popular open-source projects Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to real-time Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. Generative AI is the next frontier that Elastic is pioneering, putting AI into the center of semantic search. Making user successful with this technology requires deep insights in the motivations and goals of these users to get the best possible product experience.
The Elastic family unites employees across 40+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries. With such diversity, Elastic is in a truly unique position to build products that are inclusive and user-focused, no matter the use case. In fact, chances are you’ve used the products we build quite a few times today without knowing. That’s the scale we think and operate at.
What You Will Be Doing
- Working alongside our software engineers, and design team to define product features and initiatives across the Search product for the broad set of search use cases.
- Representing the complete set of personas that use the product and ensure that the flows are coherent across the various personas and life-cycle of product usage.
- Prioritizing the components of the product roadmap and helping ensure feature development can proceed efficiently.
- Meeting with existing and prospective customers to better understand their goals and gather feedback on how our products can best address their challenges.
- Collaborating with User Research and Product Design to capture the effectiveness of prototypes and information models
- Capturing market data, customer feedback, customer usage data, and other key information to develop product insights and help drive the product roadmap.
- Analyzing and addressing competitive dynamics within the product category.
What You Bring Along
- 5 years of experience in Product Management, preferably in a developer-focused product environment.
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of SaaS and/or IaaS product domains, including common design patterns, workflows, and delivery mechanisms.
- A deep understanding of cloud-based product APIs, authentication methods, and general web application technology.
- Empathy for the challenges of builders & operators turning them into opportunities in the short and long-term.
- A marked interest in new market-defining technologies such as vector search algorithms and machine learning is highly regarded.
- Direct product management experience building search and/or modern workplace productivity products is helpful but not required.
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
- Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- 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 committed to diversity as well as inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to the principles of affirmative action. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. If you require any reasonable accessibility support, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co.
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