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Principal, GenAI Specialist

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Hiring Remotely in United States
160K-253K Annually
Senior level
The Principal GenAI Specialist will lead the development and implementation of scalable Generative AI solutions, ensuring quality and ethical standards in projects. Responsibilities include supporting sales, enhancing product offerings, training teams, and managing GenAI services to meet market demands. The role requires deep expertise in GenAI technologies and strong leadership in driving innovation and cross-functional collaboration.
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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:

Are you looking to make a real impact and play a meaningful role in the growth of our company?

Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing industries by driving innovation, operational efficiency, and unparalleled customer engagement. From text and image generation to sophisticated natural language processing, GenAI empowers businesses to reinvent their capabilities. However, scaling GenAI solutions requires deep technical expertise, ethical awareness, and strategic foresight to ensure relevant results. Elastic is seeking a visionary to become our elite leader to guide our GenAI initiatives, align our services with this dynamic technology, and drive impactful business outcomes!

What You Will Be Doing:

Sales and Delivery Support and Quality Control:

  • Drive scalable, ethical, and impactful GenAI solutions to ensure measurable business outcomes and long-term success while supporting the sale and delivery of our most sophisticated engagements.
  • Act as the primary liaison for all GenAI-related endeavors, ensuring detailed communication and teamwork between collaborators, both internal and external.
  • Monitor and ensure high-quality sales and delivery of all GenAI engagements.

Product Integration:

  • Work with Product and Engineering teams to share customer feedback from the field, and drive co-innovation efforts to increase customer value and happiness.
  • Understand the product roadmap to ensure service readiness by anticipating and enabling the vital development and execution ahead of product releases.

Community Enablement, Engagement, and Development:

  • Ensure excellence by training service team members on the capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations of GenAI to boost confidence and understanding.
  • Participate in the ARB leadership team to establish and maintain technical guidelines, standard methodologies, and protocols. Contribute to discussions and decision-making within the ARB leadership to craft technical direction.
  • Serve on promotion panels to evaluate candidates for senior-level advancement, ensuring objective and standardized criteria are applied.

Services Offering Development and Ongoing Management :

  • Craft and develop clear, value-driven GenAI service offerings that meet customer needs and market demand.
  • Identify high-value use cases for GenAI across industries and build frameworks for their successful implementation.
  • Build, automate, and streamline processes for developing and deploying GenAI solutions.

What You Will Bring:

  • 8+ years of professional services, consulting, or related field.
  • Deep expertise in generative AI technologies, frameworks, and applications, with hands-on experience in implementing AI-driven solutions.
  • Proven track record to define and implement a global strategy for GenAI adoption, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to encourage and guide cross-functional teams, cultivate collaboration, and drive innovation.
  • Knowledge of AI/ML tools, natural language processing, and related technologies, combined with experience in crafting reusable assets and scalable solutions.
  • Successfully led sophisticated projects, including defining timelines, prioritising, and delivering timely, high-quality results.
  • Excellent ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and build trust with both internal teams and external partners!
  • Ability to travel 25% of the time, as required.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in building automation tools or frameworks for GenAI solution delivery.
  • Familiarity with developing enablement programs, including training workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • A track record of public references or case studies showcasing successful GenAI implementations.
  • Certifications in AI/ML technologies, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or cloud-based AI solutions.
  • Deep technical expertise and knowledge of Elasticsearch and Elastic Solutions
  • Knowledge of ethical AI practices and frameworks for responsible implementation


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:

$159,800$252,800 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$191,900$303,500 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/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)

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Top Skills

AI
Elasticsearch
Generative Ai
Ml
Natural Language Processing
PyTorch
TensorFlow

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