Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic

About the Role

Elastic is seeking a Principal AI Ecosystem Architect to lead our technical strategy and partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic. In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will drive co-build strategies, influence product roadmaps, and shape go-to-market content to help customers leverage frontier intelligence with their unstructured data.

What You Will Be Doing

Building

• Drive co-build strategy with the Product team to integrate Elastic's retrieval, security, and observability capabilities into OpenAI and Anthropic workflows.
• Serve as the technical voice within these ecosystems, ensuring Elasticsearch's role in agentic workflows is well-represented.
• Build reference architectures and prototypes demonstrating Elasticsearch as the retrieval layer for agentic AI.
• Influence product roadmaps based on technical signals and partner/customer feedback.

Leading

• Own end-to-end technical and strategic relationships with partner-facing teams at OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders regarding integration possibilities.
• Manage executive-level cadences to align on priorities and investment.

Evangelizing

• Co-author joint solution briefs, technical guides, and co-branded content.
• Represent Elastic at developer conferences, meetups, and technical summits.
• Translate complex integrations into actionable enablement for field teams.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in technical presales, partner engineering, solutions architecture, or product management.
• Proven track record of owning technical relationships with strategic AI or platform partners.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes and integration demos.
• Ability to influence product roadmaps and partner priorities.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting to both developers and executive stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience working with OpenAI or Anthropic partner programs.
• Technical depth in context engineering for AI agents, AI-powered security, or observability.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock program.
• Company-matched 401k (up to 6%).
• Flexible work locations and schedules.
• Generous vacation policy and parental leave.
• Donation matching and volunteer time off.