Senior Product Manager - Self service cloud

Elastic
Full-time•Product / Owner•Ireland
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At a glance

Employment type
Full-time
Location
Ireland
Workplace
On-site

What you'll be doing

Lead self-service cloud growth at Elastic as a Senior Product Manager, focusing on onboarding and trial experiences for human users and agents. Drive product adoption, customer engagement, and collaborate with engineering, sales, and solution teams to enhance Elastic Cloud's self-service capabilities.

  • Define vision and roadmap for self-service cloud growth, including onboarding, trial experience, product adoption, and activation
  • Conduct customer interviews and churn analysis
  • Analyze product engagement and manage email nurturing
  • Partner with engineering leads to prioritize technical investments and set delivery timelines
  • Collaborate with Elastic solution teams to understand onboarding flows and trial experiences
  • Drive technical decision-making for onboarding, activation, expansion, and retention
  • Gather feedback from customers and trial users
  • Collaborate with Sales & Marketing on competitive positioning and brand awareness

Key requirements

Must-have

  • 4+ years of Product Management experience with technical products
  • Strong background in Product Led Growth
  • Experience with self-service cloud services and shipping self-service trials
  • Data-driven approach to product decisions
  • Experience in product adoption and analysis
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience with globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration

Nice-to-have

  • Direct experience with Elasticsearch or similar search/database technologies
  • Background in product marketing
  • Experience with cloud service provider marketplaces

Experience: 4+ years of Product Management experience with deep technical products

Role signals

Technical focus
product management for self-service cloud and onboarding
Hands-on vs management
Hands-on

Full job description

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

The Product Manager will lead critical areas within self-service cloud growth, empowering self-service customers and trial users to be successful. This role specifically focuses on human user onboarding and agents onboarding, directly influencing the successful growth of Elastic Cloud.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Define the vision and roadmap for self service cloud growth, encompassing: onboarding and trial experience, product features adoption and trial activation, customer interviews and churn analysis, product engagement analytics and email nurturing.

  • Partnering with engineering leads to prioritizing technical investments and establishing realistic delivery timelines.

  • Collaborate with downstream Elastic solution teams (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) to understand their specific onboarding flows and trial experience.

  • Drive technical decision-making regarding onboarding, activation, expansion and retention of self-service customers.

  • Interface with customers and trial users to gather feedback on trial experience.

  • Collaborate with Sales & Marketing on competitive positioning and brand awareness.

  • Drive native integrations with 3rd party developers platforms.

What You Bring

  • 4+ years of Product Management experience with deep technical products.

  • Strong background and experience with Product Led Growth.

  • Demonstrated experience with self-service cloud services, having shipped products that provide self-service trials.

  • Data-driven approach to product decisions, with experience in product adoption and analysis.

  • Strong communication skills, capable of cross function collaborations and alignment.

  • Experience with globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration.

Bonus Points

  • Direct experience with Elasticsearch or similar search/database technologies.

  • Background in product marketing.

  • Experience with cloud service providers marketplaces.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

€85.600—€135.500 EUR

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

  • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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Interview prep pack

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Your interview focus

You will be assessed on your ability to drive self-service cloud growth, focusing on onboarding, trial activation, product adoption, and customer engagement. Expect emphasis on Product Led Growth, technical product management, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Self-service onboarding·High
  • Product Led Growth·High
  • Cloud product adoption·High
  • Customer engagement analytics·High

Only have 30 minutes?

Follow a focused preparation plan based on this job.

Start 30-minute prep

Your 30-minute plan

  1. Review Self-Service Onboarding Projects

    0–10 min

    Identify and summarize your most relevant onboarding and trial activation experiences, focusing on outcomes and metrics.

  2. Revisit Product Led Growth Strategies

    10–17 min

    List specific PLG tactics you've implemented, their results, and how you iterated based on data.

  3. Prepare Cross-Functional Collaboration Stories

    17–24 min

    Recall examples of working with engineering, sales, or marketing to align on product goals.

  4. Brush Up on Engagement Analytics

    24–30 min

    Review key metrics and tools you’ve used for customer engagement and churn analysis.

Likely questions

, 8 items

Priority reflects how strongly this topic is emphasised in the job listing, not whether it will be asked.

Talking points

, 6 items
  • Self-Service Cloud Onboarding

    You will define and improve onboarding for both human users and agents, which is central to the role.

  • Product Led Growth Strategies

    Demonstrated experience with PLG is required and underpins the approach to driving adoption and retention.

  • Trial Experience and Activation

    You will own the trial experience, including activation and conversion, which directly impacts growth metrics.

  • Data-Driven Product Decisions

    The role requires using analytics and customer feedback to inform product direction and measure success.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

    You will work closely with engineering, solution teams, sales, and marketing to align on product priorities.

  • Customer Engagement and Churn Analysis

    Understanding and reducing churn, and increasing engagement, are key to the success of self-service products.

What to research

, 4 items
  • Self-Service Cloud Onboarding and Trial Experience

    Expect deep questions on how you have improved onboarding and trial flows for cloud products, including both human and agent onboarding.

  • Product Led Growth in Technical Products

    Be ready to discuss your hands-on experience implementing PLG strategies and driving adoption in technical, self-service environments.

  • Data-Driven Product Decision Making

    Prepare to demonstrate how you use analytics and customer feedback to inform product direction and measure success.

  • Cross-Functional and Distributed Team Collaboration

    You will likely be asked about your experience working with globally distributed teams and aligning with engineering, sales, and marketing.

Questions to ask

, 6 items
  1. What are the biggest challenges currently facing self-service onboarding at Elastic?

    Why ask this? Reveals the immediate priorities and pain points you would address.

  2. How does the product team measure success for trial activation and customer engagement?

    Why ask this? Clarifies which metrics and tools are most important in the role.

  3. How do product managers typically collaborate with engineering and solution teams?

    Why ask this? Shows how cross-functional work is structured and what to expect day-to-day.

  4. What opportunities exist for product managers to influence the broader product roadmap?

    Why ask this? Indicates the level of ownership and growth potential in the role.

  5. How does Elastic support asynchronous collaboration across distributed teams?

    Why ask this? Helps you understand the company’s approach to remote work and communication.

  6. What is the process for gathering and acting on customer feedback?

    Why ask this? Clarifies expectations for customer engagement and feedback loops.

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