Principal Product Manager, Identity Threat Detection & Response

Elastic

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Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Identity Threat Detection & Response

Principal Product Manager - Identity Threat Detection & Response will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for identity-based threat detection and response within the Elastic Security team. This role focuses on building a differentiated ITDR function by evolving entity analytics into an identity-defense outcome. You will manage the roadmap for securing non-human and AI agent identities, including service accounts, workloads, and secrets, while developing strategies to detect credential access, privilege escalation, and lateral movement. The position requires expertise in Active Directory, cloud identity providers, SSO, OAuth, and privileged access. You will collaborate with threat researchers, data scientists, and engineers to integrate identity signals into SIEM and XDR functions. Key technical competencies include a deep understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, LLMs, and agentic systems, to protect against sophisticated threats in both on-premises and cloud environments.

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What you'll do

  • Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) function.
  • Manage the security plan for non-human and AI agent identities including service accounts, workloads, and secrets.
  • Collaborate with threat research and detection engineering teams to address identity-specific threats like credential access and privilege escalation.
  • Develop response and containment strategies that turn detections into automated actions with human oversight.
  • Partner with enterprise customers and sales teams to identify requirements and prioritize product needs for identity attacks.
  • Work with the design team to create investigation and response workflows that integrate identity signals with endpoint, cloud, and network data.
  • Monitor the identity-security market to develop unique strategies and engage with industry analysts.
  • Act as a product expert by evangelizing Elastic's identity capabilities through blog posts, talks, and community interaction.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 10+ years of experience in product management or solution delivery for security products like SIEM, XDR, EDR, or identity security.
  • You must possess a solid knowledge of identity-based attack techniques and the identity fabric including Active Directory, cloud providers, SSO, OAuth, and privileged access.
  • You must be fluent in non-human identities, including service accounts, workloads, secrets, and AI agents.
  • You must have deep technical comprehension of the AI/ML landscape, including behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, LLMs, and agentic systems.
  • You must demonstrate the ability to lead across a matrixed organization and align multiple stakeholders toward a common vision.
  • You must possess outstanding spoken and written communication skills to distill complex concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
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