Senior Product Manager

Description:

We are looking for a technical Senior Product Manager to join our team and help shape the future of Elasticsearch’s Distributed Systems and Serverless capabilities. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges in scalability, performance, and resilience, and love working with cutting-edge distributed systems, this could be the perfect role for you!

Elasticsearch is at the heart of everything we do at Elastic. It powers a huge range of use cases, from Enterprise Search and Observability to Security and large-scale analytics. It even helps analyze telemetry data from NASA’s rovers on Mars! As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll work closely with our talented Distributed Systems engineering team to improve how Elasticsearch handles node communication, data indexing, allocation, and replication. You’ll also help ensure Elasticsearch runs smoothly across Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, and On-Prem environments.

We’re looking for someone who has experience in software or SaaS companies and has worked on infrastructure, platform, or developer-focused products. You don’t need to define the long-term vision, but you should be able to show how you’ve contributed to delivering real impact and outcomes as part of a team. You’ll work side by side with engineers, designers, and product peers to execute on roadmap initiatives, refine requirements, and make Elasticsearch even better.

If you’re passionate about distributed systems, love collaborating with engineers, and want to work on a product that makes a real difference, we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:
 

• Driving impactful product initiatives by working closely with the Distributed Systems engineering team to improve how Elasticsearch handles scalability, performance, and resilience across all deployment models.
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and other product managers to define requirements, refine priorities, and ensure successful execution of roadmap initiatives.
• Engaging with customers and internal teams to understand real-world challenges, gather feedback, and ensure that Elasticsearch meets the needs of developers, platform teams, and enterprises.
• Measuring success and driving continuous improvements by tracking key performance indicators, analyzing usage data, and identifying opportunities to enhance Elasticsearch’s reliability and efficiency.
• Conducting competitive analysis to understand market trends, identify differentiators, and ensure Elasticsearch remains a leader in the distributed systems and database space.
   

What You Bring:
 

• 4+ years of experience in product management within a software or SaaS company, or a technical background delivering complex systems in other industries.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems, including how data is indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based and serverless architectures. Direct experience with serverless environments is a plus.
• Experience defining requirements and collaborating on the design of APIs, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to balance technical trade-offs and business priorities when making product decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders across a globally distributed team.
• A collaborative and curious mindset, with a willingness to learn, adapt, and contribute to a fast-moving, highly technical product space.