Platform - Senior Director of Product - Elastic

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

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The Senior Director of Product will manage, build, and scale Elasticsearch which is at the heart of Elastic - it’s the core search engine that everything we do at Elastic (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) is built on top of, and as such, this is a high impact and high visibility role. Elasticsearch is one of the top 10 open source projects, ever, the responsibility to lead this product brings a lot of public attention with it. You will focus on growth and bringing its long-term vision to life.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead and grow a team of top notch product managers.

• Define the vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch including search functionality, storage strategies, query languages, analytics and capabilities and cloud compatibility.

• Partner with the engineering and technical leads to prioritise the roadmap and estimate realistic delivery timelines.

• Work with downstream solution teams at Elastic to discover, align and prioritise their needs: understanding their use cases, timing requirements and helping think through phased approaches.

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

• Interface with customers and the community for feedback and usage information to develop product insights.

• Capture market competitive and trend data and inform product direction.

What You Bring

• History of leading product teams working on deeply technical products that have been through a comparable growth-stage.

• Strong technical background, preferably in related domains such as databases, distributed data stores and search engines; must have the ability to discuss technical concepts in detail.

• Experience operating at scale in a product leadership role in similar companies, with cloud products targeting technical audiences.

• A player-coach who can drive high-level strategy and execute alongside their team to deliver the needs of the customer first

• High EQ: bring technical and business acumen, compassion to the team, and someone who can help scale Elastic to the next level

• A low-ego and open-minded driver of business who cares deeply about their people. A natural problem solver.

• Intellectually curious, player coach with a drive towards the end user

• Experience leading product management for multiple product lines. Can point to clear articulation of ownership and decision making across the product team and broader organisation to drive business outcomes

• Experience working with globally distributed teams and client/user base

• Cultural ambassador who has attracted, retained and developed diverse Product teams