Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic
Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$184.2k - $291.4kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Elastic is seeking a hands-on, senior AI Ecosystem Architect to own the technical strategy and relationships with OpenAI and Anthropic, driving co-build integrations, shaping product and GTM content, and influencing Elastic’s roadmap for frontier AI in enterprise, focused on retrieval, security, and observability within unstructured data.
Responsibilities
- Driving the co-build strategy with Elastic's Product team to deepen integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic while ensuring Elastic's retrieval, security, and observability capabilities are embedded in enterprise solutions.
- Serving as Elastic's technical voice inside OpenAI and Anthropic, collaborating with partner and product teams to ensure Elasticsearch’s role in agentic workflows is understood and represented.
- Building reference architectures and working prototypes to demonstrate Elasticsearch as the retrieval layer for agentic AI and provide a grounded path for developers.
- Collaborating with Elastic Security and Observability teams to drive integration patterns and showcases demonstrating frontier AI enhancements.
- Influencing Elastic's product roadmap based on technical signals from ecosystems, customer asks, and identified gaps.
Qualifications
- 7+ years in technical presales, partner engineering, solutions architecture, or product management
- Proven experience owning technical relationships with strategic AI or platform partners as the named technical point of contact
- Hands-on experience building prototypes and integration demos with partner and product teams
- Track record of influencing product roadmaps and partner priorities
- Strong communication skills across audiences, from developer conferences to architecture discussions with partner engineers
- Willingness to travel 30% to partner offices, events, and conferences
Skills
Required:Technical relationship managementPrototype and demo developmentProduct roadmap influence
Benefits
- Stock program eligibility
- Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6%
- Holistic benefits package
- Competitive pay based on work performed
- Flexible locations and schedules
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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