Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors

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.

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Elastic's embedding/reranking and vector database and related capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research to uncover emerging trends in search/vector databases as well as SOTA model research in emerging areas to manage unstructured data, working alongside our model team.
• Evaluate the competitive landscape to enhance product positioning and develop user personas that guide feature decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align the product strategy with business goals while prioritizing features based on customer feedback and market demands.
• Establish long-term product goals and milestones for the vector use cases, document AI and unstructured data management to drive its development.
• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for Elastic's vector database as well as core search use cases, from low-level indexing internals to the developer-facing APIs and SDKs.
• Partner deeply with engineering and applied research on trade-offs, be a credible technical peer in those conversations.
• Define a unified strategy and roadmap across embedding/reranking models and vector indexing/ semantic ingestion, model lifecycle, and end-to-end retrieval quality.
• Manage the operating cadence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Master's degree in a relevant discipline preferred
• 8+ years in product management, with significant time on technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms.
• Good working knowledge of vector search fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of generative models, model fine tuning, model capabilities and document processing for large corpus.
• Track record of shipping developer- or infrastructure-facing products that were adopted at scale.

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