About the position
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 Security. As a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in crafting 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. This role collaborates 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.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve demo environments to effectively showcase compelling use cases as new product features are released.
- Develop impactful demos and demo scripts that showcase 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.
- Develop technical pitch presentations to enable and activate solution architects and other technical resources.
- 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 encourage.
- Influence the product roadmap by providing market and customer insights that shape priorities.
- Measure and track demo usage and adoption to continuously improve efficiency and impact.
- Represent Elastic at industry events, showcasing our products and engaging with the community.
- Assist in technical benchmarking for competitive intelligence content and evaluation.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in observability, developer tools, or cloud-related domains, with a strong ability to engage technical audiences such as SOC analyst, Threat analyst, Security engineer, Security architect.
- Shown ability to build 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 craft 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 sophisticated technical concepts to non-experts through blogs, videos, customer discussions, and webinars.
- Comfortable growing in a multi-functional role, collaborating successfully with a highly distributed and diverse team.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
Benefits
- 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
