Elastic3 days ago

Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors

RUB 16,642–26,325per month · before tax
MARKET
65,900median for this role
AI Researcher · 37 jobs with disclosed pay
5,600half of the offers: 16,833–78,900143,300
Below market · above 24% of offers
United States

Responsibilities

  • 01Conduct market research to uncover emerging trends in search/vector databases as well as SOTA model research in emerging areas to manage unstructured data
  • 02Evaluate the competitive landscape to enhance product positioning and develop user personas that guide feature decisions
  • 03Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align the product strategy with business goals while prioritizing features based on customer feedback and market demands
  • 04Establish long-term product goals and milestones for the vector use cases, document AI and unstructured data management to drive its development
  • 05Prioritize features and enhancements based on user feedback and technical feasibility
  • 06Allocate resources skillfully to ensure timely updates, while coordinating with engineering teams to validate roadmap assumptions
  • 07Communicate updates and expectations clearly to stakeholders and executives
  • 08Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for Elastic's vector database as well as core search use cases, from low-level indexing internals to the developer-facing APIs and SDKs
  • 09Partner deeply with engineering and applied research on trade-offs, be a credible technical peer in those conversations
  • 10Define and defend the metrics that matter: recall, latency, index size, ingestion throughput, and total cost of ownership
  • 11Advance the competitiveness of Elastic AI and Vector products across all deployments - Serverless and Self-managed
  • 12Define a unified strategy and roadmap across embedding/reranking models and vector indexing/semantic ingestion, model lifecycle, and end-to-end retrieval quality
  • 13Manage the operating cadence
  • 14Make sure shared metrics and priorities align the research, cloud, and engineering teams
  • 15Address trade-offs where model and index decisions intersect

Requirements

  • 01Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 02Master's degree in a relevant discipline preferred
  • 038+ years in product management, with significant time on technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms
  • 04Good working knowledge of vector search fundamentals including embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and trade-offs between recall and latency
  • 05Knowledge of hybrid retrieval
  • 06Working knowledge of generative models, model fine tuning, model capabilities and document processing for large corpus
  • 07Ability to hold your own with engineers on technical topics
  • 08Track record of shipping developer- or infrastructure-facing products that were adopted at scale

What we offer

  • 01Competitive pay based on the work you do
  • 02Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
  • 03Range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being
  • 04Distributed company with diversity driving identity
  • 05Ability to balance great work with great life
  • 06Elastic stock program participation eligibility