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

As a Solutions Architect at Elastic you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to our sales team, customers, partners and community. You will understand and solve our customer’s business issues with the Elastic Stack, engage the regional Elastic community through events and programs, and enable sales through our Partners. A successful SA at Elastic will be focused on excellence; taking the initiative to improve both themselves and the team through continuous learning and questioning the status quo.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.
• Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.
• Creating and owning value based relationships at all levels in customer organizations.
• Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win.
• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the Elastic products and solutions to demonstrate the value of our offerings in sales meetings, and at events such as meetups and conferences.
• Advising the sales team on effective ways of positioning Elastic products, solutions and services.
• Onboarding, educating and enabling our partners, and supporting them in sales cycles.
• Creating collateral, contributing to programs and collaborating with other Elasticians to meet individual client needs.
• Being the voice of the customer and community to communicate needs, gaps, and enhancements to our engineering and leadership teams.
• Deepening both your sales and technical skills through self driven education while taking advantage of all the professional development opportunities provided by Elastic.

What You Bring Along:

• A track record of success in a technical presales role within the Enterprise Sector -- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.
• A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
• A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.
• A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors.
• An ability to influence. Have you more than once convinced a team you worked for, of an idea, technology, or architectural pattern?
• The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.
• A willingness to travel 30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.

Why Elastic?

“Once I started, I was blown away to realize, what was always so obvious, everything is search. Anything you do with data involves search, every app needs search, even analytics are about search. Daily I am blown away with the types of things our users and customers are doing with search.” Director of Product, Elastic.

Why this team?

“We question the status quo, debate the best ways to accomplish our goals and hold ourselves and our teams to the highest standards of performance. We take pride in our ability to understand our customers needs and make recommendations that are based on extensive global experience across multiple use cases. We learn from our mistakes and losses and celebrate our successes with an eye towards constant improvement. Join this team if you are up for a compassionate, understanding and fair environment where you can really grow into the next phase of your career.” VP WW Solution Architecture, Elastic

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What is The Role:

Elastic is searching for a Security Enterprise Account Executive to expand our Enterprise and Strategic customer accounts in EMEA North. Our Security specialists are passionate about building new business and growing the Elastic Security footprint within our Top Accounts. Our Security specialists are passionate about leading & owning our Security footprint; focused on SIEM, Security Analytics, Endpoint Security & Cloud Security solutions.

What You Will be doing:

• Prospect and build awareness of Elastic Security solutions within new accounts by acting as both a player and coach to Account Executives, based on the agreed account strategy.
• Build relationships with security leaders with region and customer accounts.
• Collaborate, mentor, and coach Account Executives to position Elastic Security offerings and expansion within existing customers.
• Manage opportunities to closure based on account and opportunity strategy.
• Oversee and own security revenue forecasting for the region.
• Work with regional teams to respond to customer requests for quotes and proposals.
• Mentor and oversee all customer Elastic Security proof of concept/value engagements.
• Work collaboratively with the Elastic Security Specialists SA's on account planning, strategy as well as creative projects that will generate sales leads. 
• Cooperate with the Elastic Security Specialists SA's on account planning, strategy and creative projects to generate sales leads.
• Promote Elastic Security offerings and demonstrate commercial features
• Deliver customer presentations and roadmaps
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects on Elastic Security demos
• Collaborate with regional sales leadership to track cybersecurity opportunities, and provide updates during team calls.
• Partner with Regional Marketing Teams to drive Elastic Security pipeline through webinars and workshops.
• Build relationships with Elastic Security Product and Engineering teams to stay informed on the latest offerings and ensure customer success.

What You Bring:

• In-depth understanding selling solutions related to Security (SIEM)
• A proven track record in SaaS subscription sales, particularly in complex accounts, evidenced by quota overachievement and strong customer references.
• Adept at building relationships and establishing credibility with both developers and executives.
• Consistent and accurate sales forecasting skills using SFDC.
• Enthusiasm for the Open Source model and a deep appreciation for the community relying on our solutions.
• Prior experience selling into the Enterprise accounts included in this territory.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in selling within an Open Source model.

If you're eager to contribute to the world of Search Analytics and thrive in solving complex problems through the power of AI-driven search, Elastic wants to hear from you!