Overview

Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene open source projects, Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises. By focusing on scalability, ease-of-use, and ease-of-integration, the Elastic stack – comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana – powers many of the world’s leading mobile, social, consumer and business applications. Since its initial release, the Elastic stack has achieved more than 20 million cumulative downloads, and today, Elastic is backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and NEA with headquarters in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California, and offices and employees around the world.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to focus on the management and monitoring features of the Elastic Stack. The Elastic Stack is a sophisticated, distributed platform for collecting, enriching, and analyzing data, and with over 120m downloads and it is powering mission-critical use-cases for startups and the Fortune 500 alike. Understanding and proactively monitoring the health and performance of the Stack is critical to the success of our customers, while centralized management makes it easier to deploy, tune, and scale production workloads. If you are passionate about managing and monitoring distributed systems and making a real difference in the lives of admins, this job is for you!

Responsibilities:

  • Gather requirements from users, customers, sales, support, and internal stakeholders
  • Develop use-cases and product requirements, working closely with engineering
  • Work with Product Management team and engineering leads to coordinate and drive roadmap, requirements, positioning, field enablement
  • Work with sales, marketing, and support teams to measure product KPIs and drive process improvements and product roadmap.
  • Support product marketing to create customer focused messaging and content

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. CS, CSE, EE) or relevant work experience
  • 3+ years of proven track record in product management
  • Deep knowledge of monitoring and management features for distributed systems
  • Familiarity with the Elastic Stack and/or knowledge of at least one of the common use-cases
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills
  • Preferred skills and experience
    • Experience with Open Source software and/or commercial open source companies.
    • Experience with search, logging, and analytics products in the big data ecosystem (Elasticsearch, Solr, Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka, etc)
    • Experience working in a distributed organization

Additional Information

  • Competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, disability, benefits
  • Stock options
  • 401k
  • Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages (California office)
  • Passionate people building great products

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. 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. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.