[Hiring] Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Role Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is looking for a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder. As organizations shift from traditional data retrieval to autonomous, agentic workflows, the Agent Builder serves as the critical context layer that enables users to make Agents faster, lower cost, and more accurate. In this high-impact role, you will be responsible for defining how enterprises build, manage, and scale context for AI agents. You will work at the cutting edge of the AI ecosystem, working with senior leadership and partnering with hyperscalers and evangelizing our solutions to a global community of AI developers.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand requirements, negotiate priorities, clarify product needs.
• Build, socialize and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on top of Elastic powered retrieval and relevance for AI Agents.
• Deeply understand the AI Agent market, major players, trends and how it may impact our strategy.
• Work directly with data science and engineering to build out the strategy for benchmarking and evaluations of agent capabilities.
• Work with design to build user experiences that address gaps in how agents show and refine context as they work.
• Be the product expert and evangelize capabilities for Agent Builder through content like blog posts and open source projects.
• Work with a broad ecosystem of AI partners including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers.

Qualifications

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products.
• AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering.
• Bias to action: Ability to move fast and quickly learn from experiments and tests.
• Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization and align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills.
• Customer Obsession: A passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems.

Requirements

• Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
• The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $154,000 — $243,600 CAD.
• Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders.
• This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.
• Our total rewards package includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.

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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.