The opportunity
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, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the…
What you'll do
Manage and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining: Elastic UI (EUI) and other shared design system infrastructure across Global UX.
Own the team's delivery cadence: sprint planning, quarterly roadmap, outcomes, and status reporting to stakeholders across Elastic.
Run hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career growth for engineers on the team.
Build strong team culture and health in a fully distributed, async-first environment.
Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning with other engineering,: design, and product leadership across Elastic.
Remove blockers for the team: negotiate dependencies with other teams, address organizational friction, and escalate risks early.
What they're looking for
- Track adoption and health metrics for the design system (usage, satisfaction,: migration progress) and use them to inform roadmap priorities.
- Build relationships with teams that consume the design system, gathering: feedback and making sure their needs shape the roadmap.
- Support the team's experiments with AI-assisted design-to-code workflows and: developer tools. Balance innovation with delivery commitments.
- Previous experience managing engineering teams that build and maintain design: systems, component libraries, or similarly widely-consumed shared UI or platform infrastructure.
