Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform

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 In this role, you will manage the engineering team for Global UX. This team is in charge of Elastic UI (EUI), which is Elastic's design system and React component library. They also oversee the shared patterns, tokens, and tools that ensure Elastic products are consistent, accessible, and high-quality. You will work closely with the team's Tech Lead, who is in charge of the technical direction and architecture. You will oversee the people, roadmap, and delivery aspects of the team. This means hiring and developing engineers, creating a realistic roadmap, and ensuring the team aligns with Design leadership and Product Management on what gets built and when. We are looking for an Engineering Manager with experience leading design system or platform teams. The ideal candidate knows how to balance long-term investments with ongoing requests from other teams. They should also be able to create a dependable delivery schedule for the whole organization. What You Will Be Doing • 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. • 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. What You Bring • Previous experience managing engineering teams that build and maintain design systems, component libraries, or similarly widely-consumed shared UI or platform infrastructure. • Experience running delivery cadence - sprint planning, quarterly planning, roadmapping, and outcomes for a team that serves many internal stakeholders. • Working knowledge of frontend engineering (React, TypeScript, component architecture) sufficient to make credible technical tradeoffs alongside your Tech Lead and engineers. • Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, with a track record of growing people into more senior roles. • Robust stakeholder management skills. Comfortable sharing the roadmap, tradeoffs, and risks with engineering, design, and product leaders. • A track record of balancing platform and foundational investment against the urgent feature requests of consuming teams. • Deep written and verbal communication skills, with experience working in a distributed, async-first team. • Experience using data and adoption metrics (usage, satisfaction, migration progress) to inform roadmap decisions. • A collaborative leadership style that earns trust from your engineering team without needing to be the most technical person in the room. • Curiosity about how AI is changing design-to-code workflows and developer tooling, and comfort helping a team adopt new practices responsibly. Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets. The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position. The typical starting salary range for this role is: €55.800—€88.300 EUR 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