# Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Washington
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184,200-$291,400 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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.

## What is The Role

Elastic is expanding the Ecosystem Architects team focused on the most consequential AI providers in the AI Ecosystem , OpenAI and Anthropic. We are looking for a builder, an architect who will own the technical strategy and relationships with both.

In this hands-on individual contributor role you'd be driving the co-build strategy through deeper integrations with both ecosystems, influencing Elastic Product strategy, building the prototypes, and shaping the GTM content that would help customers bring frontier intelligence to unstructured data.

## Responsibilities

### Building

- Drive the co-build strategy with Elastic's Product team , identifying and prioritizing the integrations that deepen both partnerships and ensuring Elastic's retrieval, security, and observability capabilities are integrated in how OpenAI and Anthropic build for the enterprise.

- Serve as Elastic's technical voice inside both ecosystems , working closely with partner and product teams at OpenAI and Anthropic so that Elasticsearch's role in agentic workflows is well understood and well represented.

- Build reference architectures and working prototypes that demonstrate Elasticsearch as the retrieval layer for agentic AI , giving developers building with OpenAI and Anthropic platforms a clear path to grounded, governed context.

- Work with Elastic's Security and Observability product teams to drive integration patterns and showcases that demonstrate how frontier AI enhances Elastic's capabilities.

- Influence Elastic's product roadmap with the technical signal you gather inside both ecosystems , what partner teams are building, what customers are asking for, and where the gaps are.

### Leading

- Own the technical and strategic relationships with partner-facing counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.

- Be Elastic's named point of contact inside both ecosystems and at Elastic , the person that partner teams reach for when they want to understand how Elastic fits, what's possible, and what's next.

- Build and manage a regular executive-level cadence to align on progress, priorities, and where investment should be focused.

- Keep Elastic's internal teams , product, engineering, field, and alliances , connected to what's happening inside both partner ecosystems, and vice versa.

### Evangelizing

- Co-author joint solution briefs, technical guides, and co-branded content that help customers see the joint value clearly.

- Represent Elastic at AI-focused partner events, meetups, developer conferences, technical summits, and community forums , bringing the hands-on depth to land with a practitioner audience.

- Work with Elastic marketing teams to translate integrations into enablement that the field can use and customers can act on.

## Requirements

- 7+ years in technical presales, partner engineering, solutions architecture, product management.

- Proven experience owning technical relationships with strategic AI or platform partners , serving as the named technical point of contact.

- Hands-on experience building prototypes and integration demos , to validate ideas alongside partner and Product teams before they become roadmap commitments.

- A track record of influencing product roadmaps and partner priorities.

- Strong communication across audiences , equally effective presenting at a developer conference and working through an architecture question with a partner engineer.

- Willingness to travel 30% to partner offices, events, and conferences.

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- technical presales
- partner engineering
- solutions architecture
- product management
- AI ecosystem

### Nice to have
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Elasticsearch

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