# Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors at Elastic

- Company: Elastic
- What the company does: Power insights and outcomes with The Elasticsearch Platform. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you accelerate time to insight. Try Elastic toda... Backed by NEA and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.elastic.co/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs?gh_jid=8121962&gh_jid=8121962
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elastic-principal-product-manager-ii-ai-vectors/

## About the role

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Elastic's embedding/reranking and vector database and related capabilities. In this senior role, you'll be the go-to expert on search/vector search, guiding the direction for technologies like vector indexing and hybrid retrieval.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline preferred
- 8+ years in product management, with significant time on technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms
- You should have good working knowledge of vector search fundamentals. This includes embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and trade-offs between recall and latency. Additionally, you need to know about hybrid retrieval
- You should have a working knowledge of generative models, model fine tuning, model capabilities and document processing for large corpus
- You don't need to be a researcher, but you should hold your own with engineers on these topics. A track record of shipping developer- or infrastructure-facing products that were adopted at scale

Tags: Enterprise Search - Product Management