Director of Product Management, Observability

Job Overview

As Director of Product Management, Observability at Elastic, you will own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing, and routing, and lead the PM team behind Streams, Elastic's telemetry pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing, and routing, as well as the integrations framework.
• Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption.
• Collaborate with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service for data ingestion.
• Enable self-service data ingestion with a goal of achieving time-to-first-data in minutes.
• Lead a distributed team of product managers and empower them to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Prioritize roadmap initiatives by working closely with customers, internal teams, and the community.
• Work with engineers and designers to define and scope compelling features.
• Support sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management, with at least 4 years of experience leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
• Strong technical understanding of telemetry ingest, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.
• Experience with shipping SaaS products that have usage-based pricing and building platform capabilities shared by multiple product lines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

• The typical starting salary range for this role is €130,900 - €207,100 EUR.
• Competitive pay based on performance.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.