Kibana Alerting – Senior Product Manager

Overview

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 Senior Product Manager to drive our product vision for alerting and case management across our platform and provide the robust foundation for Elastic Observability and Security teams to build on. Our Kibana-based alerting engine offers real-time detection and control over alert timings for Observability and Security.  It automatically initiates actions, from case interactions to third-party integrations, ensuring smooth operations.  Success in this role requires experience with Observability or Security products and the ability to deliver platform capabilities that can be leveraged across both use cases.

What you will be doing

• Define the vision and roadmap for alerting and case management, leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning capabilities.
• Collaborate with Elastic Observability and Security teams to discover, align, and prioritize their needs, understanding use cases and timing requirements, and planning phased approaches.
• Deep dive into Kibana and the Elastic stack as an alerting and case management platform PM to enhance Elastic Observability and Security Solutions.
• 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 key initiatives.

What you bring along:

• 2+ years of experience working on Observability or Security products.
• 5+ years of product management experience in data products.
• 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.
• Big Bonus Point: Experience using Kibana and the Elastic Stack.

Tagged as: 5+ Years