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What Is The Role

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• 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.
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• Cross-Team Initiative Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives with engineering, platform, and research teams to deliver groundbreaking technical innovations in search, vector storage, and AI-driven relevance, reflecting a strong track record in leading significant product initiatives and multi-platform integration programs.
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• Architectural Evolution: Champion the evolution of Elastic's search architecture, focusing on scalable vector indexing, efficient similarity search, reranking and advanced query processing.
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• Technical Product Ownership: Write detailed product artifacts such as PRDs, PRFAQs for new search language constructs and vector database features, ensuring developer usability, based on experience managing developer platforms and launching developer-facing services.
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• Provide Customer and Competitive Insights & Research: Conduct in-depth market analysis, competitive technical assessments, and engage with thought leaders to inform the technical roadmap, consistent with research and strategic product definition.
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• Developer & Community Engagement: Collaborate with developers, data scientists, and the open-source community to gather feedback, validate designs, and drive adoption of new capabilities, leveraging experience in developer relations and growing feature adoption.
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• P&L ownership : Be accountable for driving rapid growth and adoption of Elasticsearch, with continued evaluation of our pricing, margins and COGS of released features.
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• Demonstrated leadership in defining and launching complex technical products in search, databases, query languages, or AI/ML platforms.
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• Deep expertise in vector databases, search pipelines, similarity search algorithms, and distributed systems architecture, including integrating ML models, adapting LLMs, and building privacy-preserving compute platforms.
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• Exceptional communication skills for complex technical concepts.
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• Curiosity to truly understand the technology that serves the majority of the world’s search experiences
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• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS ML services).
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• Deep empathy for developer challenges, translating them into product opportunities.
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• Experience defining technical value propositions and competitive differentiation.
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• Strong interest and understanding of cutting-edge technologies like vector databases, ML, and generative AI (e.g., RAG, LLM integration).
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• Direct PM experience with search platforms, AI/ML platforms, or developer tooling is highly desirable.
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• Ability to read and understand code (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and engage in technical discussions, reflecting a strong technical foundation including past software engineering roles.
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