Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors - Elasticsearch

What you'll do

• Own the multi-quarter product vision and roadmap for vector database and core search use cases, from indexing to developer APIs and SDKs.
• Research market trends, competitors, customer needs, and emerging models to inform product positioning and feature priorities.
• Align research, cloud, and engineering teams on priorities, metrics, trade-offs, and delivery across deployments.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years in product management, including significant time on technical infrastructure, databases, search, or ML/AI platforms.
• Working knowledge of vector search fundamentals, including embeddings, ANN indexing, similarity metrics, recall/latency trade-offs, and hybrid retrieval.
• Working knowledge of generative models, model fine tuning, model capabilities, and document processing for large corpus; track record shipping developer- or infrastructure-facing products adopted at scale.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline.

Pay

€130.900 — €207.100 EUR (base salary)

Tools

Elasticsearch, vector indexing, hybrid retrieval, embeddings, ANN indexing, generative models, developer-facing APIs, SDKs

AI focus

Leads product strategy for embeddings, reranking, vector indexing, semantic ingestion, model lifecycle, and end-to-end retrieval quality.