Elastic · 6 hours ago
Principal Product Manager for OpenTelemetry (App SDKs) - Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
3+ years expElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager for OpenTelemetry Instrumentation to lead the development of a seamless and intuitive data collection experience for developers, ensuring the OpenTelemetry instrumentation aligns with broader observability goals.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the Vision & Strategy: Define and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our entire OpenTelemetry instrumentation experience, ensuring it aligns with our broader observability goals and the evolving OTel landscape
Champion the Developer: Live in the shoes of our users. Engage deeply with developers, SREs, and platform engineers through interviews, community channels, and analytics to understand their struggles and build solutions they love
Lead in the Open: Be an active and influential member of the OpenTelemetry community. Participate in SIGs (Special Interest Groups), contribute to specifications, and build relationships to ensure our platform is the best place to send OTel data
Drive Execution: Work hand-in-hand with our brilliant engineering, design, and developer relations teams to translate user needs into clear requirements, scope compelling features, and drive them from inception to a successful launch
Define Success: Establish and analyze Key Performance Indicators focused on instrumentation adoption, time-to-value, ease-of-use, and data quality to ensure your product is delivering real impact
Enable the Ecosystem: Collaborate with marketing, sales, and solution architects to craft differentiated messaging and technical content that clearly articulates the value of using OpenTelemetry with our platform
Be the Expert: Serve as the internal and external spokesperson for our OpenTelemetry Instrumentation strategy, presenting at conferences, webinars, and customer meetings
Qualification
Required
You are passionate about OpenTelemetry and a true believer in open standards
You have 3+ years of product management experience, ideally with a highly technical, API-driven, or developer-focused product
You have hands-on experience in the observability world
You think in terms of user journeys and experiences, not just features
You can effortlessly shift from a high-level strategic discussion with executives to a deeply technical debate with engineers
You thrive with working with cross-functional teams and understand the nuances of contributing to and working with open-source communities
Preferred
You have experience contributing directly to an open-source project (especially OpenTelemetry) or have deep familiarity with the Elastic Stack, Datadog, or other major observability vendors
Benefits
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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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