Kibana - Principal Product Manager II

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.