Principal Product Manager - Agent Builder

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder. This critical product enables organizations to build, manage, and scale context for AI agents, driving the shift towards autonomous workflows. Join a globally recognized leader in search and AI and shape the future of enterprise AI.

What is the Role?

As the Principal Product Manager for the Elastic Agent Builder, you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a platform that allows enterprises to create faster, more cost-effective, and accurate AI agents. You will operate at the forefront of the AI ecosystem, working with senior leadership, hyperscalers, and the global AI developer community.

What You Will Be Doing

• Collaborate directly with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to gather requirements, prioritize needs, and clarify product specifications.
• Develop, socialize, and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities built on Elastic's retrieval and relevance technologies for AI Agents.
• Conduct in-depth market analysis of AI Agents, identifying key players, trends, and strategic implications for Elastic.
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to define the strategy for benchmarking and evaluating AI agent capabilities.
• Work with design to create user experiences that enhance how agents display and refine context during operation.
• Serve as the product expert, evangelizing Agent Builder capabilities through content such as blog posts and open-source projects.
• Engage with a broad ecosystem of AI partners, including cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and community developers.

What You Bring

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years in product management or solution delivery for technical, cloud infrastructure, or platform products, with a proven record of bringing complex, data-intensive products from inception to growth.
• AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and context engineering. Comfortable working closely with engineers and data scientists.
• Bias for Action: Ability to move quickly, learn from experiments, and leverage AI tools to accelerate processes and decision-making.
• Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization, align stakeholders, and drive execution in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, capable of distilling complex technical details into compelling narratives for diverse audiences, including executives.
• Customer Obsession: Passion for industry trends and a commitment to solving real-world customer problems, advocating for the developer persona.

Compensation

This role offers base salary compensation. The typical starting salary range for this role is €67,000—€106,000 EUR. Compensation is determined by relevant experience, skills, expertise, role alignment, and scope.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay aligned with your contributions.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family (in many locations).
• Flexible locations and schedules to craft your ideal work-life balance.
• Generous vacation days.
• Opportunities to increase your impact through matched donations and volunteer hours (up to $2000 annually).
• Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive culture. We celebrate diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.

Accessibility

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience. To request an accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will respond within 24 business hours.

Additional Information

• Export Controls: Technology and information distributed by Elasticsearch may be subject to U.S. and other countries' export controls. Individuals in or nationals of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia (including annexed Ukrainian territories) may require an export license. National origin does not affect employment eligibility.
• Federal Employment Laws: Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws (FMLA, Pay Transparency, EPPA, Know Your Rights).