Overview

Principal Product Manager (Search Relevance) at Elastic. Elastic seeks an exceptional Technical Principal Product Manager to lead our teams pioneering the next-generation of query languages and vector database capabilities for Elasticsearch. You will lead cross-team initiatives to define and deliver breakthrough technical features and platform capabilities. Elastic’s Search team brings Elasticsearch and our platform to market for a wide range of use cases including applied AI for agentic applications and traditional search experiences. Our diverse, global team spans over 40 countries, building inclusive, user-focused products at scale.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the strategic vision and execution for new query languages, data field types and other vector database functionalities within Elasticsearch, incorporating new innovations in machine learning and AI.
• Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives with engineering, platform, and research teams to deliver groundbreaking technical innovations in search, vector storage, and AI-driven relevance.
• Architectural evolution of Elastic's search architecture focusing on scalable vector indexing, efficient similarity search, reranking and advanced query processing.
• Own technical product artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs) for new search language constructs and vector database features, ensuring developer usability.
• Provide customer and competitive insights and research to inform the technical roadmap and strategic product definition.
• Collaborate with developers, data scientists, and the open-source community to gather feedback, validate designs, and drive adoption of new capabilities.
• Be accountable for driving rapid growth and adoption of Elasticsearch, including evaluation of pricing, margins and costs of released features.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated leadership in defining and launching complex technical products in search, databases, query languages, or AI/ML platforms.
• Deep expertise in vector databases, search pipelines, similarity search algorithms, and distributed systems architecture, including integrating ML models and privacy-preserving compute.
• Exceptional communication skills for complex technical concepts.
• Curiosity about technology that powers the majority of the world’s search experiences.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS ML services).
• Empathy for developer challenges and ability to translate them into product opportunities.
• Experience defining technical value propositions and competitive differentiation.
• Interest and understanding of vector databases, ML and generative AI (e.g., RAG, LLM integration).
• Direct PM experience with search platforms, AI/ML platforms, or developer tooling is highly desirable.
• Ability to read and understand code (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and engage in technical discussions.

Additional Information

We are a distributed company that values diversity and inclusion. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive culture. We provide benefits and accommodations as needed. To request an accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co.

Employment Details

• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Production
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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