Principal Product Manager - Identity Threat Detection & Response

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 brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to guide the vision, strategy, and execution for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) within Elastic Security. Attackers not only break in - they log in. Identity is now a major target for attacks, whether in on-premises setups, cloud environments, or with self-directed agents. Detecting and responding to identity-based attacks is essential for any modern Security Operations Center (SOC).

In this high-impact role, you will define how Elastic detects, investigates, and responds to identity-based threats, building on our Entity Analytics and Entity Store foundation to deliver a credible, differentiated ITDR function. You will also own the roadmap for securing non-human and AI agent identities within Elastic Security.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a credible ITDR function within Elastic Security, evolving our Entity Analytics and Entity Store foundation into an identity-defense outcome.
• Manage the plan for non-human and AI agent identities in Elastic Security, modeling service accounts, workloads, secrets, and self-directed agents as important identities.
• Work with threat research and detection engineering, focusing on identity-specific threats such as credential access, privilege escalation, and lateral movement.
• Drive the response and containment strategy (the 'R' in ITDR), turning detections into action using identity-system integrations and automated responses.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers, security operations teams, sales, and solution architects to understand requirements and clarify product needs.
• Partner with the design team to develop investigation and response experiences that emphasize identity in the analyst workflow.
• Gain deep knowledge of the identity-security market, major trends, and the changing threat landscape to develop a unique strategy.
• Evangelize Elastic's identity capabilities through content such as blog posts, talks, and open community interaction.

What You Bring

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for security products such as SIEM, XDR, EDR, identity security, or detection and response.
• Identity Security Depth: Solid knowledge of identity-based attack techniques and the identity fabric (Active Directory, cloud identity providers, SSO, OAuth, privileged access, UEBA).
• Non-Human Identities: Fluency in non-human identities, including service accounts, workloads, secrets, and AI agents.
• AI and ML Fluency: Deep technical comprehension of the AI/ML landscape, including behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, LLMs, and agentic systems.
• Bias to Action: Ability to advance fast, learn quickly from experiments, and utilize AI tools to accelerate processes.
• Management and Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead across a matrixed organization and drive execution in a dynamic, remote-first environment.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding spoken and written communication skills to distill complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Customer Obsession: Commitment to solving real-world customer problems and advocating for security analysts and detection engineers.