Senior Product Manager, Platform at Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager, Infrastructure to lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for the Elastic Cloud infrastructure, spanning Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless.

This role is foundational to Elastic’s growth. Your mission is to ensure Elastic Cloud is the best place for customers to run Elastic workloads—delivering efficient performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency at global scale.

You will partner with engineering, program management, technical leads, finance and cross-functional teams to define platform strategy, prioritize high-impact investments, and drive execution. A key focus of this role is FinOps leadership and COGS optimization, ensuring Elastic Cloud scales sustainably while meeting customer needs. You will also work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to deeply understand pain points and ensure the platform evolves to support their most critical workloads.

What You Will Be Doing

Define and lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Elastic Cloud infrastructure across Hosted and Serverless, aligned with customer outcomes and company goals.

Own infrastructure cost efficiency and FinOps initiatives, with a strong focus on identifying, prioritizing, and delivering COGS optimization opportunities across compute, storage, networking, and platform services.

Translate customer feedback, internal requirements, operational insights, and market trends into clear product initiatives and priorities.

Collaborate with engineering and program management to scope, plan, and launch infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Act as a customer advocate for developers, operators, and end users, ensuring the platform supports a wide range of workloads and use cases.

Define, track, and communicate product success metrics, using data to inform decisions, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement.

What You Bring

Proven experience in Product Management, ideally in a technical, cloud infrastructure or platform teams.

Strong experience driving FinOps initiatives or COGS optimization for cloud platforms, including trade-off decisions between cost, performance, and reliability.

Background in building or leading cloud-native platforms, infrastructure products, or internal developer platforms.

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms, with a solid understanding of operational models, workloads, and scaling challenges.

Demonstrated ability to own and drive the full product lifecycle, from ideation and strategy through launch and iteration.

Ability to operate with autonomy and a high degree of ownership in fast-paced environments.

Humble attitude — we are here for the success of the team and the company.

Bonus Points

Familiarity with multi-tenant platforms, serverless architecture, or internal tooling ecosystems.

Experience with Elastic Cloud, Elastic Stack or similar cloud-based search and analytics platforms/products.

Experience or willingness to work in a distributed, remote-first organization.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different 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 basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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Senior Product Manager, Platform

Job Description

What is The Role

What You Will Be Doing

What You Bring

Bonus Points

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People