What is The Role
The Elasticsearch product lead 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 DoingLead and grow a team of top notch product managers.Work with leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch including search functionality, storage strategies, query languages, analytics capabilities and cloud strategy and compatibility.Partner with the engineering and technical leads to prioritize the roadmap and estimate realistic delivery timelines.Work with downstream solution teams at Elastic to discover, align and prioritize their needs: understanding their use cases, timing requirements and helping think through phased approaches.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 BringHistory 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; 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 firstHigh EQ: bring technical and business acumen, compassion to the team, and someone who can help scale Elastic to the next levelA 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 userExperience leading product management for multiple product lines. Can point to clear articulation of ownership and decision making across the product team and broader organization to drive business outcomesExperience working with globally distributed teams and client/user baseCultural ambassador who has attracted, retained and developed diverse Product teams