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Elastic

Searches enterprise data and monitors systems

Account Executive Public Sector

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBelgiumIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Success in SaaS subscription sales in public sector accounts, evidenced by overachievement.
  • Ability to craft tailored narratives that connect search, observability, and security capabilities to measurable business outcomes.
  • Ability to lead high-stakes contract and pricing discussions.
  • Comfort discussing security, observability, vector and traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
  • Ability to establish credibility with technical developers and executive leadership.
  • Consistent, predictable, and accurate sales forecasting skills; ability to collaborate with customers on formal close plans and keep the customer relationship management system up to date.
  • Ability to create alignment across teams to accelerate deals.
  • Ability to use new technologies for performance advantage and deal structuring.
  • Enthusiasm for the open-source model and its community.

Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption of AI-powered search, observability, and security solutions within new public sector accounts while deepening engagement with existing accounts.
  • Help users and customers use search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
  • Position Elastic as a Search AI platform by discussing cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
  • Address complex customer data challenges.
  • Explain the value of commercial features while advocating for open-source offerings.
  • Showcase how Elastic solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
  • Develop business plans using community, customer, and partner ecosystems to grow the territory.
  • Identify new opportunities and manage complex sales cycles.
  • Use the MEDDPICC framework to uncover customer pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria and prioritize high-confidence deals.
  • Partner with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to accelerate deals and achieve customer outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior experience at an open-source or developer-centric infrastructure company.
  • Familiarity with observability use cases involving logs, metrics, and traces, or security analytics use cases involving SIEM/XDR.

About the Company

Elastic

Searches enterprise data and monitors systems

Elastic builds search, observability and security software for developers, IT operations teams and security analysts. Elasticsearch indexes enterprise data so applications can retrieve records, while Kibana gives teams dashboards for exploring results and investigating system activity. Customers use the tools to search business information, monitor applications and infrastructure, and investigate threats across their data. Elastic sells managed cloud services and self-managed subscriptions, with resource-based hosted pricing, usage-based serverless pricing and licenses tied to nodes and memory. Founded in 2012, Elastic lists San Francisco, California, as its headquarters.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2012

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