Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together search and AI. Elastic's cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

The Observability team builds solutions for application developers and engineers running infrastructure and services. As a Principal Product Manager for Telemetry collection, you will drive strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors and remote management capabilities, owning the vision for Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), alongside classic standalone log shippers like Filebeat and the Beats ecosystem and Logstash.

• Define product vision, go-to-market strategy, and execution roadmap for the Elastic Agent framework, Fleet Server/Service, and telemetry collectors.
• Define and track KPIs focused on agent deployment success, pipeline efficiency, and adoption of OTel distributions.
• Oversee packaging, testing, and distribution of Elastic Agent and standalone distributions.
• Drive remote management capabilities for Elastic Agent, Fleet Server, and collector infrastructure.
• Drive vision and release strategy for Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts.
• Advance OTel as a primary data shipper, guiding development of receivers and exporters across Elastic Agent (EDOT) and upstream OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Manage Filebeat and oversee maintenance of the Beats repository.
• Lead product initiatives for Logstash.
• Work with engineering, UX, and product marketing to deliver central management and collector experiences.
• Act as a key spokesperson at internal and external events.

• At least five years in Product Management with focus on enterprise infrastructure observability, telemetry collection, or agent frameworks.
• Deep technical familiarity with collectors, log shippers, and agent ecosystems such as OpenTelemetry Collector, Elastic Agent, Filebeat/Beats, and Logstash.
• Proven track record in defining requirements for remote agent management, fleet control planes, or distributed edge collection systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts, cloud-native orchestration and release management.
• Experience in IT Ops, DevOps, SRE, or customer-facing solution architect/consultant background ideal.
• Expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, receivers/exporters, and OpenTelemetry Collector architectures.
• Experience with open-source communities and balancing upstream contributions with enterprise product requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with modern AI productivity tools and emerging AI technology stacks.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed team.
• Strong familiarity with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats).

Compensation is in the form of base salary; no variable component. Typical starting salary range: €67,000—€106,000 EUR. Benefits include health coverage for you and your family in many locations, flexible locations and schedules for many roles, generous vacation days, up to $2000 match for financial donations and service, up to 40 hours volunteer time, and minimum 16 weeks parental leave.

Apply via the provided link. For accommodation requests, email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co.