Senior Product Manager, Control Plane - Platform

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

We are looking for a Product Manager in the Control Plane team, which owns the Elastic Cloud's backend and Elastic's orchestration products. You will ensure Elastic’s leading market position by managing a product portfolio that offers delightful experiences for customers at any scale.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define parts of the vision and roadmap for Elastic’s Control Plane team, with a focus on new management, orchestration and scaling capabilities.


• Collaborate with your Engineering counterparts to prioritize 


• Collaborate with the Sales & Marketing teams on go-to-market, messaging, competitive analysis and enablement. 


• Gather market competitive and trend data, customer and community feedback and usage information to develop product insights. 

What You Bring 

• 4+ years of Product Management experience with deep technical products.


• Solid understanding and familiarity with infrastructure cloud technologies, distributed data stores and developer-focused products in general. 


• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate your work, while still owning the final outcomes.


• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects based on business priorities


• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.


• Ego-free attitude — we are here for the success of the team and the company


• Empathy, transparency, and a good sense of humour

Bonus Points

• Direct experience with the Elastic Stack, or experience with one or more of the common use-cases for the Elastic Stack, such as application search, logging, metrics, APM, business analytics, security analytics, GIS, etc.


• Comfortable using AI tools as part of your day-to-day work


• Comfort working in a very cross-functional role, with a highly distributed, global team. 


• Open source software and/or commercial open source companies.