Platform Control Plane Product Lead

Requirements

• You hold a BS degree in Computer Science or bring equivalent technical experience in software engineering organizations.
• A minimum of 10 years in Product Management, of which at least 5 years have been spent leading product teams and managing technology focused products.
• Excellent written and spoken communications skills.
• Solid understanding and familiarity with infrastructure cloud technologies, containers and Kubernetes, distributed data stores and developer-focused products in general.
• Curiosity and an open mind.
• Ego-free attitude — we are here for the success of the team and the company.
• Empathy, transparency, and a good sense of humour.

Nice to Haves

• Direct experience with the Elastic Stack, or experience with one or more of the common use-cases for the Elastic Stack, such as application search, logging, metrics, APM, business analytics, security analytics, GIS, etc.
• Comfort working in a very cross-functional role, with a highly distributed, global team.
• Open source software and/or commercial open source companies.
• Experience with products offered both via SaaS and self-managed delivery model.
• Good sense of user experience and design.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work closely with the Elastic Cloud Engineering Team and Tech Leads to define and maintain a shared vision and roadmap for the future of Elastic Cloud and orchestration product portfolio.
• Directly manage a team of highly skilled, technical product managers.
• Work with upstream and downstream product and engineering teams at Elastic to ensure awareness and alignment of the priority and timing of critical features and changes, and their applicability to the cloud and orchestration products.
• Collaborate with the Sales & Marketing teams on go-to-market, messaging, competitive analysis and enablement.
• Gather market competitive and trend data, customer and community feedback and usage information to develop product insights.

Perks and 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.