Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Elastic's embedding/reranking and vector database and related capabilities. In this senior role, you'll be the go-to expert on search/vector search, guiding the direction for technologies like vector indexing and…

• Conduct market research to uncover emerging trends in search/vector databases as well as SOTA model research in emerging areas to manage unstructured data, working alongside our…
• Evaluate the competitive landscape to enhance product positioning and develop user personas that guide feature decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align the product strategy with business goals while prioritizing features based on customer feedback and market demands.
• Establish long-term product goals and milestones for the vector use cases, document AI and unstructured data management to drive its development.
• Own 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…

What they're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Master's degree in a relevant discipline preferred
• 8+ years in product management, with significant time on technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms.
• You should have good working knowledge of vector search fundamentals. This includes embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and trade-offs between recall and latency.
• You should have a working knowledge of generative models, model fine tuning, model capabilities and document processing for large corpus