Posted almost 6 years ago
Elastic is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, Verizon, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and our diverse open source community spans over 100 countries. Learn more at elastic.co
We are looking for a Sr. Product Manager to drive the success of our Cloud products, specifically focussed on the engineering team responsible for networking, traffic, and data services. Elastic Cloud is our hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana service and is the fastest growing product of Elastic and we need your help in making it even better and bringing it to its fullest potential. If you're technical, have experience with developer-targeted product and are looking to join and dynamic and growing team, this job is for you!
Responsibilities:
Gather requirements from customers, sales and Elastic’s own operations team and help with ongoing prioritization of features
Define KPIs to collect and analyze. Use this data to identify trends and make recommendations on how the platform can be optimized and improved, including (but not limited to) UX, pricing, packaging and product offerings
Support the sales team on customer engagements and take part in sales enablement activities within Elastic
Provide engineering with inputs on new and existing features and make sure they’re aligned with customers needs.
Work with the marketing and product marketing teams on messaging, positioning and launch activities.
Requirements:
Solid understanding and familiarity with cloud technologies (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP) and developer-focused products
Solid experience and rich technological background in managing a cloud native applications deployed on AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud etc.
Experience designing all product aspects including computational requirements, networking, and storage.
Excellent spoken and written communication skills
2+ years of proven track record in product management at a SaaS software company
Preferred skills and experience:
BA or a higher degree in a technical field (e.g. EE, CS)
Experience with Open Source software and/or commercial open source companies.
Experience building and/or operating a SaaS product
Experience with search, logging, and analytics products in the big data ecosystem (Elasticsearch, Solr, Hadoop, MongoDB, Spark etc)
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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
At Elastic, we strive to have parity of benefits across regions. While regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of people is the right thing to do.
Health coverage for you and your family.
Flexible location and schedule for many roles.
Generous number of vacation days each year.
Double your charitable giving — we match up to 1% of your salary.
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.