Partner Director Emea Central & North jobs at Elastic in Germany

As the Principal Product Manager for OpenTelemetry Instrumentation, you will lead the most fundamental part of our customer's journey: the first mile. You will be responsible for crafting a world-class developer experience for instrumenting applications, services, and infrastructure using OpenTelemetry. Your role is to make data collection so seamless that it feels like magic, enabling our customers to unlock the full power of our observability platform.

• Own the Vision & Strategy: Define and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our entire OpenTelemetry instrumentation experience, ensuring it aligns with our broader observability goals and the evolving OTel landscape.
• Champion the Developer: Live in the shoes of our users. Engage deeply with developers, SREs, and platform engineers through interviews, community channels, and analytics to understand their struggles and build solutions they love.
• Lead in the Open: Be an active and influential member of the OpenTelemetry community. Participate in SIGs (Special Interest Groups), contribute to specifications, and build relationships to ensure our platform is the best place to send OTel data.
• Drive Execution: Work hand-in-hand with our brilliant engineering, design, and developer relations teams to translate user needs into clear requirements, scope compelling features, and drive them from inception to a successful launch.
• Define Success: Establish and analyze Key Performance Indicators focused on instrumentation adoption, time-to-value, ease-of-use, and data quality to ensure your product is delivering real impact.
• Enable the Ecosystem: Collaborate with marketing, sales, and solution architects to craft differentiated messaging and technical content that clearly articulates the value of using OpenTelemetry with our platform.
• Be the Expert: Serve as the internal and external spokesperson for our OpenTelemetry Instrumentation strategy, presenting at conferences, webinars, and customer meetings.

• An OTel Enthusiast: You are passionate about OpenTelemetry and a true believer in open standards. You don't just know what OTel is; you've used it, you understand its components (APIs, SDKs, Collector, OTLP), and you have strong opinions about its future.
• A Technical Product Leader: You have 3+ years of product management experience, ideally with a highly technical, API-driven, or developer-focused product. You are comfortable diving deep into architecture diagrams and code samples with engineers.
• A Former Practitioner (or have the approach): You have hands-on experience in the observability world. Maybe you were an SRE, a DevOps Engineer, a Software Developer, or a Solutions Architect who spent years instrumenting and monitoring complex, distributed systems.
• Customer-Obsessed: You think in terms of user journeys and experiences, not just features. You have a consistent track record of turning customer insights into a successful product roadmap.
• An Outstanding Communicator: You can effortlessly shift from a high-level strategic discussion with executives to a deeply technical debate with engineers. Your written communication is clear, concise, and compelling.
• A Community-Minded Collaborator: You thrive with working with cross-functional teams and understand the nuances of contributing to and working with open-source communities.

• You have experience contributing directly to an open-source project (especially OpenTelemetry) or have deep familiarity with the Elastic Stack, Datadog, or other major observability vendors.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$159,800—$252,800 USD

$191,900—$303,500 USD

• Drive Services Bookings : Take full ownership of services bookings targets in your territory. Accurately forecast, track progress, and take strategic actions to achieve and exceed goals.
• Create a Winning Services Strategy : Build and maintain a territory plan that aligns Elastic Services to customer priorities, accelerating adoption and long-term value.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account Teams : Lead services discovery and shape outcome-driven proposals. Own the services bid and negotiation lifecycle to align with customer goals.
• Own Governance for Strategic Accounts : Provide oversight across a portfolio of key engagements, managing escalations and ensuring alignment with Delivery and Project Coordination.
• Lead Operational Excellence : Continuously position the right Elastic Services for customer needs, maximizing satisfaction and strengthening Elastic solution capabilities.
• Cultivate Trusted Relationships : Build long-term partnerships by understanding customer journeys and aligning services to their evolving objectives.
• Act as Strategic Advisor : Influence internal stakeholders and strategic account planning by sharing services perspectives that drive customer success and adoption.
• Model Leadership and Collaboration : Be a visible leader across the region—promoting alignment, supporting team collaboration, and championing services growth initiatives.

• 8–12 years’ experience in professional services, presales, or customer engagement roles in a high-growth tech environment.
• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven commercial ownership for services bookings, including forecasting and contract negotiation.
• Strong delivery governance and ability to lead complex services negotiations with customer-aligned value propositions.
• Experience in search, observability, security or analytics technology domains is highly desirable.
• Fluency in German.
• Strategic and consultative mindset with ability to influence C-Level stakeholders.
• Skilled in aligning services to measurable business value and managing outcomes-based engagements.
• Ability to build and execute territory plans that support sustained services bookings growth.
• Fluency in services sales methodologies, forecasting discipline, and delivery governance.
• Recognized for cross-functional collaboration, customer-centricity, and high accountability.

• Background in open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch, Linux, NoSQL, or related platforms.
• Experience as a billable consultant or project manager.
• Empathy for delivery execution and understanding of how to translate customer goals into delivery success.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

• Developing extensive knowledge of our technology platform, product messaging, partner ecosystem, and competitor landscape
• Actively contributing to and owning sales plan creation. Working closely with our Sales Leadership, and reporting goals and objectives, forecasts, and definitions of success for the region.
• Ensuring the attainment of assigned sales quotas by ‘leading from the front’ and driving Elastic’s sales partner methodology
• Actively encouraging an environment of teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Partnering across Elastic’s leadership community to ensure a flawless partner and customer experience
• Identify, recruit, enable and manage partners (Regional SIs, VARs, Hyperscalers, referral partners, consulting firms) to support business goals and to implement partner sales strategies specific to region
• Support and drive consistent and predictable channel bookings through joint business planning and ongoing channel management.
• Build and drive overall channel strategy and prioritization plan for coverage area, including the development of an Elastic Stack practice across priority channel partners

• Proven track record of leading Partner Teams to exceed quotas and objectives within a fast paced and technical client acquisition driven business
• Strong SaaS sales leadership
• Executive level relationships with Partner Community
• Ability to operate in a results-oriented environment
• Experience recruiting, enabling, and leading a network of SI and channel partners with direct personal involvement
• Exposure to and expertise in building channel networks from the ground up
• Demonstrated success growing the impact of channel results through increased lead growth or bookings growth
• Experience negotiating channel agreements and crafting channel programs
• Understanding of analytics, search, or big data markets / products or ability to learn quickly
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

• Drive the adoption of Elastic's AI-powered search solutions within new Enterprise accounts and deepen our engagement with existing Strategic accounts.
• Position yourself as a trusted advisor, assisting users and customers in harnessing the full power of Elastic's search analytics to transform their data into actionable insights.
• Champion our Open Source offerings, articulating the value and capabilities of our advanced commercial features.
• Identify and develop new use cases, showcasing how Elastic’s solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
• Collaborate closely with various Elastic business functions to ensure an exceptional customer experience.
• Proactively identify new business opportunities with customers, successfully navigating complex sales cycle.
• Develop a comprehensive business plan leveraging community, customer, and partner ecosystems to drive significant growth within your territory.

• A proven track record in SaaS subscription sales, particularly in complex retail accounts, evidenced by quota overachievement and strong customer references.
• In-depth understanding and, ideally, experience in selling solutions related to Enterprise Search, Log Analytics, Security, APM, and Cloud.
• Adept at building relationships and establishing credibility with both developers and executives.
• Consistent and accurate sales forecasting skills using SFDC.
• Enthusiasm for the Open Source model and a deep appreciation for the community relying on our solutions.
• Prior experience selling into the Enterprise accounts included in this territory.

• Experience in selling within an Open Source model.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

• Lead the delivery of Elastic solutions to drive customer success from our products
• Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and services, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
• Data modelling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
• Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns
• Be a mentor/coach for your fellow Elastic consultants

• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch or similar distributed datastore technology
• Experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer and proficient in at least one programming language
• Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
• Ability and willingness to travel and work remotely with our customers
• Understanding of Linux, Java and databases
• Fluency in German is essential

• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Experience as a Consultant, deliver and execute on Professional Services engagements
• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
• Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation
• Experience with Statement of Work delivery and customer journey

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws; view posters linked below: Poster; Poster; Poster and (Poster)

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

• Drive the adoption of Elastic's AI-powered search solutions within new Enterprise accounts and deepen our engagement with existing Strategic accounts.
• Position yourself as a trusted advisor, assisting users and customers in harnessing the full power of Elastic's search analytics to transform their data into actionable insights.
• Champion our Open Source offerings, articulating the value and capabilities of our advanced commercial features.
• Identify and develop new use cases, showcasing how Elastic’s solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
• Collaborate closely with various Elastic business functions to ensure an exceptional customer experience.
• Proactively identify new business opportunities with customers, successfully navigating complex sales cycle.
• Develop a comprehensive business plan leveraging community, customer, and partner ecosystems to drive significant growth within your territory.

• A proven track record in SaaS subscription sales, particularly in complex accounts, evidenced by quota overachievement and strong customer references.
• In-depth understanding and, ideally, experience in selling solutions related to Enterprise Search, Log Analytics, Security, APM, and Cloud.
• Adept at building relationships and establishing credibility with both developers and executives.
• Consistent and accurate sales forecasting skills using SFDC.
• Enthusiasm for the Open Source model and a deep appreciation for the community relying on our solutions.
• Prior experience selling into the Enterprise accounts included in this territory.

• Experience in selling within an Open Source model.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws; view posters linked below: Poster; Poster; Poster and (Poster)

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic