Program Manager, Strategic Projects

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 Elastic is looking for a Marketing Program Manager to join the Marketing PMO team, focused on supporting the execution of strategic projects and operational initiatives across the marketing organization. You will partner closely with an existing Strategic Projects Program Manager, as well as cross-functional teams, to help plan, coordinate, and deliver key initiatives that drive alignment and improve how marketing operates. To be successful in this role, you should be highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable running multiple work streams. Youre someone who is proactive in nature and enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity, keeping projects on track, and ensuring teams are aligned and moving forward. What You Will Be Doing Own the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of multiple high-priority marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and timelines. Maintain project plans, timelines, project documentation, and tracking tools to keep organized and on schedule. Act as the strategic connective tissue between cross-functional teams and marketing executives, facilitating collaboration and driving consensus on critical decisions. Proactively identify, map, and mitigate complex cross-project dependencies and risks. Adapt quickly to changing priorities, helping teams stay focused and aligned as plans evolve Evaluate current marketing operations and processes, then design and implement workflows and governance models to improve coordination and efficiency across teams. Partner with the project team and leaders to provide clear, actionable updates and roadmaps, ensuring transparency around project health, risks, and milestones. Help remove blockers by coordinating across teams and ensuring next steps are clear What You Bring Previous experience managing cross functional projects in a marketing organization Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment Comfort working cross-functionally with distributed teams, and the ability to build strong working relationships with them Excellent, proactive communication skills with an ability to lead meetings and drive alignment A love for process and an understanding of how to map out team processes/ timelines, improve upon them, and iterate. 3-6 years of experience in project or program management Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Workfront or similar platforms) 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 t…