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 precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
We’re looking for a Global PR Director to lead our external communications and drive high-impact outcomes across priority markets. This is a senior role responsible for ensuring product innovation is translated into clear, credible narratives that build trust with developers and economic buyers, and are amplified optimally across channels and markets.
You will own our global PR strategy, lead major campaigns and launches, and ensure we consistently land differentiated stories across media, social, podcasts, and speaking platforms. You will work closely with Product, Marketing, Developer Marketing, Social, and regional teams to drive aligned execution and ensure consistent rollout across markets and channels. This role reports to the Head of Global Communications.
PR is a core lever for how we build credibility and differentiate in the market. This role ensures we show up with a clear, consistent, and compelling narrative globally and translate it into sustained visibility and influence across channels.
What You Will Be Doing
- Define and implement a global PR strategy aligned to company priorities and positioning
- Ensure product innovation is consistently translated into strong, repeatable narratives that build credibility with technical and economic audiences
- Drive high-impact visibility across media, social, podcasts, and speaking opportunities in key markets
- Lead global campaign planning and major launches, ensuring coordinated, consistent rollout across regions and channels
- Collaborate closely with Social, Product, Marketing, and Developer Marketing teams to ensure alignment and coordinated execution
- Lead and optimize team and agency performance across markets, ensuring consistent quality and impact
- Identify and prioritize the opportunities that will most optimally build visibility and market credibility across channels
- Partner with executive and product teams to develop a strong, credible spokesperson bench
- Measure and improve performance, focusing on outcomes not activity
What You Bring
- Proven experience leading global PR in a high-growth tech company
- Strong track record of driving high-impact visibility across media and broader channels
- Experience driving the performance of regional teams and agencies across multiple regions
- Commercial mentality with an understanding how communications supports growth, pipeline, and market perception
- Confident working with senior team members and advising executives
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, high-growth environment
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
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.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
The typical starting salary range for this role is:
$160,300—$253,600 USD
The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:
$192,300—$304,200 USD
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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