Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch

About the role

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the development and strategy of the Elastic Agent Builder. This role involves guiding the vision, strategy, and execution for the Agent Builder, which is a critical tool for enterprises to build, manage, and scale context for AI agents. The Agent Builder integrates Elastic's powerful search and AI capabilities to enhance autonomous workflows.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify product needs.
• Build, socialize, and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on top of Elastic's retrieval and relevance for AI Agents.
• Deeply understand the AI Agent market, major players, trends, and how they may impact our strategy.
• Work directly with data science and engineering to build out the strategy for benchmarking and evaluations of agent capabilities.
• Work with design to build user experiences that address gaps in how agents show and refine context as they work.
• Be the product expert and evangelize capabilities for Agent Builder through content like blog posts and open source projects.
• Work with a broad ecosystem of AI partners including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers.

Requirements

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products.
• AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering.
• Bias to action: Ability to move fast and quickly learn from experiments and tests, utilizing AI tools to help accelerate processes and bring clarity to decisions.
• Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision, and drive execution in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, able to distill complex engineering details into compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
• Customer Obsession: Passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems, advocating for the developer persona and building products that empower users to innovate.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and platform products.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and technologies.
• Proven track record of successful product launches and growth.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

• Product Management
• Cloud Infrastructure
• AI/ML
• Customer Relationship Management
• Collaboration and Teamwork

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Able to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• To use up to 40 hours each year toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Pay

• The typical starting salary range for this role is $159,800—$252,800 USD.
• The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is $191,900—$303,500 USD.

Schedule

• This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.

Additional Information

We take care of our people. As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.