Principal Product Manager II

Summary

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, as a Principal Product Manager II (Director Level) to drive product design and user experience for Kibana. This role requires experience with Observability or Security products and expertise in delivering top-notch user experiences in data visualizations and analytics products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working on Observability or Security products
• 10+ years of product management experience in data products and data visualizations
• Excellent ability to distill complex concepts into clear wireframes and requirements with a focus on user experience
• End-to-end thinking on all aspects of a use case, clearly defining customer problems and benefits
• Proven experience working with large engineering teams and diverse stakeholders on complex UX problems, with the ability to articulate the “why” both internally and externally
• Technical proficiency with a passion for creating scalable services that enable our community and internal developers to query, render, and take actions on data in Elasticsearch
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfort working in a highly cross-functional role with a distributed, global team

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive the product vision of Kibana
• Deliver key product initiatives across Kibana product areas, focusing on data visualizations and administrative experiences
• Collaborate with other product managers and the engineering team to align roadmaps, making informed product choices and trade-offs
• Review and approve Kibana product requirements and designs on key features
• Interface with customers and the community to gather feedback and usage information to develop product insights
• Capture market trends and competitive data to inform product direction, and provide insights for sales enablement and engineering awareness
• Facilitate and participate in design thinking sessions, brainstorming concepts, testing hypotheses, and creating visual examples with wireframes
• Collaborate with the engineering team to define and manage platform components, and understand platform architecture to drive strategic initiatives

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