Senior Product Manager - Security Solutions

Job Description

Elastic is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Grab, Goldman Sachs, ING, Microsoft, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and our diverse open source community spans over 100 countries. Learn more at elastic.co

The Elastic Security Solutions team is building our vision of what a SIEM should be. Over the past few years, the Elastic Stack has become a popular choice with security practitioners for protecting their systems and data from cyber threats. Bell Canada and Slack use Elastic for security analytics. Cisco Talos has Elasticsearch at the heart of their threat hunting program. OmniSOC, a shared cybersecurity operations center built by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory chose to use the Elastic as the core of their SIEM solutions. We recently launched Elastic SIEM, and we’ve got a ton of great ideas to help our security-focused users protect their data, applications, and network infrastructure.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join the Security Solutions team as Senior Product Manager, reporting to the Director of Product for Elastic SIEM. You’ll help steer the development of future Elastic SIEM capabilities, working as an integral member of the SIEM development team, alongside front-end and back-end developers, search specialists, security researchers, security content developers, field security specialists, solution architects, and product marketers. The Elastic Security Solutions team is diverse and distributed. You will be working remotely with people from Germany, Spain, United States, UK, and more. We meet via Zoom, brainstorm in Google docs, discuss in GitHub issues, and chat on Slack. You’ll build and nurture relationships with pre-sales and post-sales technical teams, and provide product and technical expertise to assist sales enablement and customer success.

Skills - You can:

• Credibly interact with security researchers, engineers, data scientists, and software developers
• Successfully communicate with field sales team, including resellers & MSSPs
• Engage in mutually beneficial product-related exchanges with prospects and customers
• Create compelling written material to capture market requirements and describe company solutions
• Apply technical troubleshooting skills to just about any situation

Knowledge - You know a lot about:

• Log Management and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Network Security appliances (IDS/IPS, NGFW, Web Proxy, WAF, VPN, etc.)
• IT Security operational practices, technology trends, and current cyber threat landscape
• Windows, Active Directory, and Unix system/security logs.
• Networking and Security Protocols
• Developing software in an open source environment - Git based knowledge a plus
• Data science, machine learning, threat intelligence, and UEBA would be plusses

Experience - You've succeeded for at least:

• 3 years in a security-related product management role
• 3 years in a related product development or technical field role

Aptitude and Education - You have:

• Passion for innovating and developing solutions
• Excellent communication skills
• BS/MS degree in engineering, computer science, or information security
• CISSP or other security certifications a plus

Travel - You are willing and able to:

• Travel up to 20 %, including some international travel

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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• 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
• Double your charitable giving — we match up to 1% of your salary
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.