- Company: Elastic
- Location: Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD 192,500 – 304,500
About the role
Elastic is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy and roadmap for its embedding, reranking, and vector database capabilities. In this senior position, you will serve as the key expert on search and vector technologies, guiding the direction of vector indexing and hybrid retrieval. You will work closely with engineering and research teams to ensure our products meet the needs of organizations while keeping pace with the evolving AI landscape.
Responsibilities
- Conduct market research to identify trends in vector databases and state-of-the-art model research for unstructured data.
- Evaluate the competitive landscape to improve product positioning and develop user personas.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product strategy with business goals and prioritize features based on customer feedback.
- Establish long-term product goals and milestones for vector use cases, document AI, and unstructured data management.
- Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Elastic’s vector database, from low-level indexing to developer-facing APIs.
- Partner with engineering and applied research to define and defend key metrics such as recall, latency, index size, and total cost of ownership.
- Define a unified strategy across embedding models, vector indexing, and end-to-end retrieval quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. A Master’s degree is preferred.
- 8+ years in product management, with significant experience in technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms.
- Working knowledge of vector search fundamentals, including embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and hybrid retrieval.
- Understanding of generative models, fine-tuning, and document processing for large corpora.
- Ability to hold your own in technical discussions with engineers and a track record of shipping developer- or infrastructure-facing products at scale.
- Export Control Note: Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other countries’ export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.
Pay and benefits
- Base salary: CAD 192,500 – 304,500. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation days each year.
- Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
How to apply
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