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PLEASE NOTE: Given the schedule required to effectively collaborate with EMEA counterparts, only applicants in the eastern part of Canada (EDT) will be considered. Thank You for your understanding.
Kibana is the UI and frontend for everything we do at Elastic. It is the application platform that powers our Elastic Observability, Security, and Search Solutions. It provides building blocks and user experiences that delight our users, accelerate development, and optimize our operations. Deployed both in the cloud and on-premises, it is one of the largest open-source projects, used by millions to answer complex questions with large data sets at scale.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager II (Director Level) who can make a significant impact on product design and user experience as a highly influential individual contributor and thought leader. This leader will work across the entire Kibana platform and collaborate with other product teams to drive next-generation user experiences. Success in this role requires experience with Observability or Security products and expertise in delivering top-notch user experiences in data visualizations and analytics products.
What you will be doing
- Lead and drive the product vision of Kibana.
- Deliver key product initiatives across Kibana product areas, focusing on data visualizations and administrative experiences.
- Collaborate with other product managers and the engineering team to align roadmaps, making informed product choices and trade-offs.
- Review and approve Kibana product requirements and designs on key features.
- Interface with customers and the community to gather feedback and usage information to develop product insights.
- Capture market trends and competitive data to inform product direction, and provide insights for sales enablement and engineering awareness.
- Facilitate and participate in design thinking sessions, brainstorming concepts, testing hypotheses, and creating visual examples with wireframes.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to define and manage platform components, and understand platform architecture to drive strategic initiatives.
What you bring along:
- 5+ years of experience working on Observability or Security products.
- 10+ years of product management experience in data products and data visualizations.
- Excellent ability to distill complex concepts into clear wireframes and requirements with a focus on user experience.
- End-to-end thinking on all aspects of a use case, clearly defining customer problems and benefits.
- Proven experience working with large engineering teams and diverse stakeholders on complex UX problems, with the ability to articulate the “why” both internally and externally.
- Technical proficiency with a passion for creating scalable services that enable our community and internal developers to query, render, and take actions on data in Elasticsearch.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfort working in a highly cross-functional role with a distributed, global team.
- Bonus Points: Experience using Kibana and the Elastic Stack.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
The typical starting salary range for this role is:
$192,500—$284,500 CAD
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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
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