What's the salary range?

Elastic lists CAD 192,500–CAD 304,500 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Director of Product Management, Observability role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus.

What seniority level is this role?

Elastic targets director candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Director of Product Management, Observability role at Elastic.

Director of Product Management, Observability at Elastic

Joblaze summary

In the role of Director of Product Management for Observability at Elastic, the individual will oversee the strategy and execution of the Streams telemetry pipeline, ensuring efficient data ingestion and processing. Key skills include deep technical knowledge of telemetry frameworks like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, along with extensive experience in product management within data infrastructure. This position is suited for a seasoned leader with a strong background in SaaS products and data pipelines, capable of guiding a distributed team to achieve measurable outcomes.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page October 23, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 5 other locations at Elastic: Greece, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States.
Starts above 17% of 36 comparable director product roles we track (median $207,500 across 25 companies).

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Elastic lists CAD 192,500–CAD 304,500 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Director of Product Management, Observability role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus.
What seniority level is this role?: Elastic targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Director of Product Management, Observability role at Elastic.

From the original posting

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

Every outcome on the Elastic platform starts with data getting in. Streams, Elastic’s telemetry pipeline, is the shared ingest layer for Observability, Security, and Search. It collects data from any source, processes and routes it, and stores it in Elasticsearch or the customer’s own object storage, all built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. As Director of Product Management, you will own Streams end to end and lead the PM team behind it. Your job is to make Elastic the easiest platform to bring data to, for every solution and every customer.

What You Will Be Doing

Own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing and routing, and the integrations framework.
Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption
Partner with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service everyone can leverage
Make getting data ingestion self-service, with time-to-first-data measured in minutes.
Lead a team of distributed product managers and enable them to deliver measurable outcomes.
Drive roadmap priorities by working with customers, internal teams, and the community
Work with engineers and designers to scope and define compelling features
Enable sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning

What You Bring

10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.
Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingest: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.
Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing, and building platform capabilities shared by several product lines.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Familiarity with the Elastic Stack is a plus

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

$192,500—$304,500 CAD

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