Lead Elastic's vector search strategy with expertise in embeddings, hybrid retrieval, and AI infrastructure as a distributed company.
As Principal Product Manager, you will guide embedding, reranking, vector database, and related capabilities. You will shape products serving organizations across Elastic deployments. Success requires product management experience with technical infrastructure, search, databases, or ML and AI platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own vision, strategy, and multi-quarter vector database roadmap
- Define embedding, reranking, indexing, and retrieval strategy
- Partner with engineering and research on technical trade-offs
- Establish metrics for recall, latency, throughput, and index size
- Coordinate priorities across research, cloud, and engineering teams
Requirements:
- Eight-plus years in product management
- Technical infrastructure, database, search, or ML platform experience
- Knowledge of embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and hybrid retrieval
- Working knowledge of generative models and model fine tuning
- Record shipping developer or infrastructure products adopted at scale
Principal Product Manager candidates will connect vector search expertise with roadmap leadership, technical judgment, and retrieval quality.
Principal Product Manager Vector Search in Ottawa employer: Elasticsearch B.V.
Elastic is an exceptional employer that prioritizes the well-being and growth of its employees, offering competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, and generous vacation days. With a flexible work culture that embraces diversity and inclusivity, employees can balance their professional and personal lives while contributing to innovative AI solutions that impact Fortune 500 companies. The opportunity for career advancement and the chance to work in a collaborative environment with cutting-edge technology make Elastic a rewarding place to build a meaningful career.
