Principal Product Manager, AI agents (Search)

Role overview

Elastic is hiring a Principal Product Manager for AI agents (Search) to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder. The role focuses on helping organizations move from traditional data retrieval to autonomous workflows.

Key missions

• Define the vision, strategy, and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder.
• Build, socialize, and align a roadmap for core context engineering capabilities on top of Elastic-powered retrieval and relevance for AI agents.
• Partner with enterprise customers, sales teams, and solution architects to understand needs, negotiate priorities, and clarify product requirements.
• Collaborate with data science and engineering teams on benchmarking and evaluation of agent capabilities.

Requirements

• 10+ years in product management or solution delivery for technical/cloud infrastructure/platform products, including leading data-intensive products from inception through launch and iteration.
• Proven ability to lead across a matrixed organization and drive execution in a remote-first environment.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate complex engineering details for both technical and non-technical (including executives).
• Customer obsession, with advocacy for the developer persona.
• AI/ML fluency: LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and context engineering; comfortable working closely with engineers and data scientists.
• Bias to action: fast learning through experiments/tests; use AI tools to accelerate decisions.

Nice-to-haves

• Not explicitly stated (the post emphasizes extensive experience and deep AI/ML fluency).