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 distribut