Description
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.
Elastic Security is looking for a Principal Product Manager to own XDR and the exposure and vulnerability capabilities converging with it.
The best detection-and-response products are built on a clear read of how attacks actually unfold and where defenders actually lose time. That read is getting harder, not easier.
The SOC's job now spans reactive detection and proactive exposure, and the two are collapsing into a single motion faster than most vendors can reorganize around it.
In this role you will own XDR end to end, from the detection-and-response core through the exposure and vulnerability work now converging with it.
Responsibilities
- Own XDR strategy and delivery across cross-domain detection and response across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network.
- Work from correlation and incident building through response actions and the closed-loop automation that runs at machine speed without taking the analyst out of the loop.
- Lead Elastic's XDR expansion into exposure and vulnerability management.
- Draw the line between XDR, exposure, and the adjacent surfaces such as attack surface and cloud posture, bringing those signals in as inputs rather than standing up separate products.
- Partner with the Entity Analytics team on the asset criticality and entity context that exposure prioritization depends on, so the two areas compound rather than collide.
- Serve as the product voice with senior customer stakeholders, including the CISO and VP of Security Operations, and deliver roadmap direction, including deprioritizations, without losing the room.
- Become the internal authority on the competitive landscape, including major security vendors and MDR service providers, and turn that into differentiated direction rather than talking points.
- Partner with engineering leads and Security Labs to write requirements they can act on without follow-up clarification meetings, and to ground detection and exposure scoring in real threat research.
- Create the artifacts, such as roadmap trackers, decision memos, and competitive briefs, that give customers and internal stakeholders visibility without requiring a meeting.
Requirements
- Extensive Experience: 7–10 years of product management experience, with at least 4 years in security or B2B enterprise software.
- Endpoint Detection and Response Domain Knowledge: Hands-on knowledge of XDR, EDR, SIEM, or broader security operations.
- Exposure and Vulnerability Fluency: Understand the difference between raw scanning, asset inventory, and true exposure prioritization.
- Analytics and Threat Understanding: A solid comprehension of the analytics and data science techniques behind detection and prioritization.
- Technical Credibility: You earn respect from engineering through the quality of your requirements.
- Executive Presence: You are comfortable as the primary product voice with C-suite and VP-level customer stakeholders.
- Cross-functional Fluency: You have operated across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success.
- Default to AI-Augmented Work: You use AI tooling for synthesis, research, and delivery as a regular part of your workflow.
- Management and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization.
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
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact
- We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave