Principal Product Marketing Engineer

Join our dynamic Product Marketing cluster as we expand, bringing on a new member to focus on the technical go-to-market strategy for Elastic Observability. As a Product Marketing Engineer (PME), you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we connect with users, developing a deep technical understanding of their challenges, and showcasing how Elastic uniquely addresses them.

In this role, you'll become the evangelist for Elastic Observability’s technical capabilities. You'll set up the infrastructure for product demos, build hands-on workshops, create compelling videos, write insightful blogs, and share your expertise through webinars, ElasticON presentations, and industry conferences. Your work will directly influence how we engage with our community and prospects.

You'll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and field teams, integrating customer feedback to refine our offerings and equip the field with the training and content needed to effectively demonstrate observability use cases. Master both the technical nuances of our products and the art of delivering engaging, authentic demos that resonate with our audience. If you're passionate about technology and storytelling, and you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we want to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Maintain and enhance demo environments to effectively showcase compelling use cases as new product features are released.
• Develop impactful use cases and workflows that empower the field to deliver differentiated demos and successful POCs.
• Streamline automation and processes to ensure demo maintenance is efficient, reliable, and scalable.
• Provide timely training and update content to enable the field team with the latest product capabilities.
• Author technical blogs that highlight Elastic’s technology and platform, driving thought leadership and engagement.
• Deliver technical enablement sessions, including demo recordings and webinars, to educate and inspire.
• Influence the product roadmap by providing market and customer insights that shape priorities.
• Measure and track demo usage and adoption to continuously improve effectiveness and impact.
• Represent Elastic at industry events, showcasing our products and engaging with the community.

Some travel is required

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive experience in observability, developer tools, or cloud-related domains, with a strong ability to engage technical audiences such as SREs, DevOps engineers, developers, and IT operations teams.
• Proven ability to create compelling content across various formats, including blog posts, presentations, and videos, that resonates with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Broad software development expertise, particularly in Python, Go, and shell scripting, with a focus on automating demo environments and workflows.
• Hands-on experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, enabling you to design and deliver robust demos and proof of concepts.
• Strong familiarity with deploying and operating workloads in cloud environments, specifically within AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to non-experts through blogs, videos, customer discussions, and webinars.
• Comfortable thriving in a cross-functional role, collaborating effectively with a highly distributed and diverse team.

Bonus Points:

• Practitioner-level knowledge and experience in the observability or monitoring domain.
• Previous experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer or Pre-Sales Engineer, particularly with cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience implementing one or more of Elastic’s solutions in real-world customer environments.

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