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, the company's telemetry pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing, and routing, and the integrations framework.
• Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption.
• Partner with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service everyone can leverage.
• Make getting data ingestion self-service, with time-to-first-data measured in minutes.
• Lead a team of distributed product managers and enable them to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Drive roadmap priorities by working with customers, internal teams, and the community.
• Work with engineers and designers to scope and define compelling features.
• Enable sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning.

Requirements

• 10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
• Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.
• Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing, and building platform capabilities shared by several 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: €91,600-€144,900 EUR.
• Competitive pay based on the work you do.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• 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.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.