Full-Time
Commercial Counsel Public Sector
Elastic
5,001-10,000 employees
Cloud-based search and real-time data analytics
No salary listed
United Kingdom
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Based in the United Kingdom; remote work not stated.
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- You are qualified and legally permitted to practice law in the United Kingdom and have 4+ years’ experience in the drafting and negotiation of technology contracts (including Cloud/SaaS and Software Subscription agreements, Professional Services agreements, Data Processing Agreements) with Public Sector customers.
- Strong working knowledge of public procurement law, public law principles, and contract law, together with an understanding of cyber and information security obligations in technology contracts, and the ability to engage credibly with technical and security teams (including requirements for Cyber Essentials / Cyber Essentials Plus certification, ISO 27001 compliance, and alignment with NCSC guidance).
- Experience & knowledge of relevant laws and legal systems in key regions such as the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Germany.
- You will have the ability to balance legal risks with business strategy.
- Candidates who have prior experience managing technology contracts for public sector entities, whether in-house in the private sector, or with a central government department, local authority, or regulated public sector organisation, are preferred.
- You thrive while independently running your own time in a demanding, fast-paced environment, are able to handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience, and humour.
- Responsible for managing the full legal lifecycle of our Public Sector contracts (including Cloud/SaaS and Software Subscription agreements, Professional Services agreements, Data Processing Agreements and associated schedules ensuring compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, etc) — from early-stage bid support and framework call-off negotiations through to contract execution and ongoing contract management — while advising internally on the regulatory and compliance obligations that come with supplying cloud services to the Public Sector.
- Support the Sales & RFP Teams during live procurement processes, reviewing ITT/RFP requirements, drafting legal responses, and advising on terms and conditions proposed by contracting authorities.
- Engage closely with Elastic’s UK Legal Director based in France and Elastic’s Security Controller, based in the United Kingdom, the wider Legal Department spread across the USA, EMEA and APJ and Elastic’s go-to-market stakeholders e.g. finance and compliance organization.
- Supporting EMEA & Global Legal team members on ad hoc projects – as directed.
- Keeping abreast of relevant legal and regulatory developments and proactively advising the business on their implications.
- Help to build and strengthen workflow processes between the Legal Department and other departments within Elastic to enable dealmaking and compliance initiatives. This includes leaning into AI tools and automation opportunities.
- A self-starter by nature - you have the proven track history to balance multiple projects and recalibrate advice in view of shifting priorities, legal developments, and risk tolerance.
- Experience with, or at least a good working knowledge of, complex software licensing and cloud business models and related legal issues.
- Demonstrated ability to consistently deliver outstanding results.
- Familiarity with data protection and privacy issues and concerns in the context of technology transactions, as a significant plus.
- Prior experience representing high-growth companies is strongly preferred.
- Ability to collaborate and function well in a distributed team environment.
- Ability to participate in some limited travel requirements.
- Written and spoken English.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Elastic provides a suite of search-powered software offered as SaaS and on-premises, helping organizations search, analyze, and visualize data in real time. Its flagship Elasticsearch ingests data, indexes it with a fast search engine, and delivers real-time search, analytics, and visualization through dashboards, with deployments available on Elastic Cloud or Elastic On-Prem and orchestration for managing multiple deployments. It differentiates itself by offering deployment flexibility and a broad set of use cases—from enterprise search to security analytics—within a single platform with subscription pricing based on data, users, and support. The goal is to help customers manage large data volumes to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and security.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2012
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026 OpenAI collaboration positions Elastic as enterprise AI retrieval infrastructure.
- July 2026 Deductive AI acquisition deepens observability automation and incident investigation.
- Q4 FY26 revenue reached $451 million, and RPO rose 28%, showing demand strength.
What critics are saying
- FY27 revenue guidance slowed to 14.6% growth, signaling weakening momentum after FY26’s 17%.
- June 2026 layoffs, Ken Exner’s exit, and Pomerantz scrutiny damage execution credibility.
- Microsoft, AWS, Datadog, and Cisco keep squeezing Elastic’s search, observability, and security franchises.
What makes Elastic unique
- Elastic unifies search, observability, security, and vector retrieval across cloud and air-gapped deployments.
- Jina On-Prem runs multimodal models entirely inside customer environments, with zero outbound calls.
- Elastic’s open-source heritage and Elasticsearch brand keep it embedded across developer and enterprise workflows.
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Fully paid health coverage for you and your family
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↑ 1%INNOVIM joins the Elastic partner program to accelerate mission-driven data and AI for federal agencies. Silver Spring, MD - INNOVIM is proud to announce that it has become an official partner of Elastic, the Search AI company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Search AI Platform. The partnership brings together INNOVIM's two decades of federal mission experience with Elastic's industry-leading capabilities in search, observability, and security, expanding how its customers turn vast, complex datasets into timely, trusted decisions. For more than 20 years, INNOVIM has helped agencies including NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense harness data to advance science, strengthen national security, and improve environmental understanding. As the volume and velocity of mission data continue to grow, so does the need for platforms that can ingest, normalize, and operationalize that data at scale. Its partnership with Elastic directly answers that need. A platform built for mission-scale data. Elastic's Search AI Platform unifies three capabilities that map closely to the challenges its customers face every day. Its search foundation lets agencies unify fragmented data across legacy and modern systems without disruption, making information instantly findable and usable. Its observability capabilities consolidate logs, metrics, and traces into real-time visibility, helping teams detect anomalies and reduce mean time to resolution for the systems that missions depend on. And its security capabilities deliver AI-powered SIEM and endpoint detection, enabling the kind of proactive, automated threat response that defense and satellite operations require. Critically for the public sector, Elastic Cloud Hosted holds FedRAMP High and Moderate authorizations on AWS GovCloud, meeting the rigorous security standards required for sensitive U.S. government workloads. That authorization means INNOVIM can bring these capabilities to its customers with the compliance assurances their missions demand. Extending its data and AI advantage. Data analytics and science-based technology have always been at the core of INNOVIM's work. Elastic strengthens that foundation with a modern vector database and generative AI tooling that allow agencies to securely apply large language models to their own proprietary data, producing mission-specific insights while keeping sensitive information protected. For its customers, that translates into faster knowledge retrieval, sharper anomaly detection, and AI that is grounded in their data rather than generic models. By combining Elastic's Search AI Platform with INNOVIM's deep understanding of Earth science, weather and climate systems, satellite operations, and defense missions, Innovim can help agencies move from raw data to actionable intelligence more quickly and more securely than ever before. A milestone in INNOVIM's growth. Becoming an Elastic partner marks another step in INNOVIM's continued growth as a trusted federal technology provider. As a Woman-Owned Small Business recognized on the Inc. 5000 and the Washington Technology Fast 50, and honored as NASA Small Business Subcontractor of the Year and a NOAA Outstanding Small Business, INNOVIM continues to expand the ecosystem of best-in-class technologies Innovim bring to its customers. This partnership reflects its commitment to pairing flawless execution with the most capable tools available. "Our customers' missions depend on turning enormous, complex datasets into decisions they can trust. Partnering with Elastic lets us bring a proven, FedRAMP-authorized Search AI platform to that work, combining Elastic's technology with the mission expertise INNOVIM has built over twenty years. Together, we can help federal agencies search, secure, and understand their data faster than ever." - Dr. Shahin Samadi, Chief Innovation Officer, INNOVIM Looking ahead. INNOVIM and Elastic share a simple conviction: the answers agencies need are already in their data. Through this partnership, Innovim look forward to helping its customers find those answers faster, advancing science, strengthening security, and delivering the mission-critical insight that INNOVIM has been known for since 2003.
Atlassian cites Q4 Teamwork Graph, context boom. Published August 6, 2026 Atlassian reported strong fiscal fourth quarter results with revenue growth of 28% and cloud revenue growth of 31%. The company delivered fourth quarter earnings of $139 million, or 55 cents a share, on revenue of $1.766 billion. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.87 a share. Wall Street was looking for Atlassian to report non-GAAP earnings of $1.50 a share on revenue of $1.65 billion. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said Atlassian's MCP server and Teamwork Graph CLI topped 1 million monthly active users, more than doubling from the third quarter. Cannon-Brookes said customers were leveraging Atlassian's platform to deliver context to AI. "In the AI era, context is the edge but it's hard to build and can't be hired," he said. Cannon-Brookes said in a shareholder letter that the company's Teamwork Graph is its most underappreciated asset. He said: "In an enterprise, the hardest problems are often coordination problems - weeks lost waiting for a decision, a handoff, or a dependency to clear. While most of the market focuses on helping individuals move faster, its platform is built around how human and human/AI teams move better, together. And as Constellation Research Inc. move into a world of greater human/AI collaboration where agents take on more execution, the challenge shifts from doing the work to orchestrating it. This is where Atlassian has always played, and where its advantage is compounding. The world runs on teams. Teams run on context. Constellation Research Inc. connect the two." Atlassian's platform is being used to deliver more accurate results with AI. During the quarter, Atlassian launched new agentic development tools in Jira as well as AI governance controls. The Teamwork Graph has more than 200 billion objects and connections across customers and Atlassian said agents grounded in the context graph consume 48% fewer tokens. For 2026, Atlassian reported a net loss of $54 million, or 21 cents a share, on revenue of $6.57 billion, up 26% from the prior year. Other key items: * Atlassian named Ken Exner its new chief product officer for its enterprise and emerging units with a focus on service, strategy, product, software and security and compliance. Exner joins from Elastic and was among AWS' early employees. * Cannon-Brookes said he will make open market purchases up to $250 million in Atlassian shares. As for the outlook, Atlassian projected first quarter revenue to be between $1.705 billion and $1.715 billion with cloud revenue growth of 28.5%. For fiscal 2027, Atlassian is projecting revenue growth of 13%, subscription ARR growth of 18% and cloud revenue growth of about 25.5%. Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise technology, digital transformation, and emerging trends shaping the future of business. He oversees research-driven news, analysis, interviews, and event coverage designed to help technology buyers and vendors navigate complex markets with clarity and context... Results. Insights News August 6, 2026 Next-Generation Customer Experience Five9 reported better-than-expected second quarter results and said its Google Cloud partnership and AI Voice Agents are gaining traction. Five9 also raised its outlook for the thi... Larry Dignan Insights News August 6, 2026 Future of Work HubSpot cut its third quarter outlook as a pivot to outcome-based pricing and budget concerns have crimped expected demand. CEO Yamini Rangan, however, said outcome-based pricing i... 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Elastic and OpenAI collaborate to bring frontier intelligence to unstructured enterprise data. Collaboration combines OpenAI's advanced reasoning models with governed enterprise context in Elasticsearch across AI applications, security operations, and observability. Elastic today announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI to help organizations build production-ready AI applications and agents using OpenAI models with Elasticsearch. By combining Elasticsearch's retrieval, search and governance capabilities with OpenAI's advanced reasoning models, organizations can ground AI in their own enterprise data to enable more accurate, secure and reliable AI at scale. AI agents are only as useful as the enterprise context they can access. Yet most of that information remains out of reach. According to Gartner(R), "unstructured data, such as documents and multimedia files, accounts for 70% to 90% of organizational data."1 That context is spread across documents, tickets, logs, metrics, traces, and security alerts, changes continuously, and is governed by different permissions. Without access to the right enterprise context, even advanced AI models struggle to deliver accurate, reliable results. Elasticsearch provides the retrieval layer, combining lexical and vector search, semantic reranking, filtering, and access controls in a single platform. It helps agents find relevant, real-time context with the right permissions, reducing unnecessary data sent to the model and improving retrieval quality, all with lower token costs. Together with OpenAI models, developers can build reliable, cost-efficient AI agents for critical enterprise workflows. "The success of enterprise AI depends on connecting powerful models with the knowledge businesses already possess," said Greg Tademoto, global vice president, Business Development & Strategic AI Partnerships at Elastic. "Much of that knowledge is buried in unstructured data. By combining OpenAI's advanced reasoning with Elasticsearch's retrieval and governance capabilities, we're helping enterprises build AI agents that are accurate, secure and useful in production." "Great AI needs great context. We're excited to collaborate with Elastic to bring OpenAI's models closer to the data businesses rely on - helping them build AI agents that are more accurate, more secure, and ready to deliver real-world results," said Colleen Kapase, vice president, Strategic Global Partnerships & Ecosystems at OpenAI. Elastic and OpenAI will focus on delivering three customer outcomes: * Context-aware AI agents that retrieve accurate, permission-aware enterprise knowledge at scale, while improving agent efficiency. * Agentic observability that correlates telemetry and accelerates root cause investigation for SRE teams. * Agentic security operations that turn high volumes of alerts into evidence-backed investigations for analyst review and action. Elastic has supported OpenAI models through AI Assistants and connectors since 2023. This collaboration expands that foundation through deeper product integration and joint work to help customers build enterprise AI applications grounded in governed data. The companies plan to deepen their collaboration further across enterprise AI, security and observability. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Elastic plans to integrate OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber specific models into Elastic Security agentic workflows and extend governance to the OpenAI platform, enabling detection of anomalous OpenAI activity alongside endpoint and network threats. For developers using OpenAI Codex, Elastic will develop integration points that provide governed, real-time access to their unstructured enterprise data.
Elastic and OpenAI to bring frontier intelligence to unstructured enterprise data. Elastic has announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI to help organizations build production-ready AI applications and agents using OpenAI models with Elasticsearch. By combining Elasticsearch's retrieval, search and governance capabilities with OpenAI's advanced reasoning models, organizations can ground AI in their own enterprise data to enable more accurate, secure and reliable AI at scale. AI agents are only as useful as the enterprise context they can access. Yet most of that information remains out of reach. According to Gartner(R), "unstructured data, such as documents and multimedia files, accounts for 70% to 90% of organizational data."1 That context is spread across documents, tickets, logs, metrics, traces, and security alerts, changes continuously, and is governed by different permissions. Without access to the right enterprise context, even advanced AI models struggle to deliver accurate, reliable results. Elasticsearch provides the retrieval layer, combining lexical and vector search, semantic reranking, filtering, and access controls in a single platform. It helps agents find relevant, real-time context with the right permissions, reducing unnecessary data sent to the model and improving retrieval quality, all with lower token costs. Together with OpenAI models, developers can build reliable, cost-efficient AI agents for critical enterprise workflows. "The success of enterprise AI depends on connecting powerful models with the knowledge businesses already possess," said Greg Tademoto, global vice president, Business Development & Strategic AI Partnerships at Elastic. "Much of that knowledge is buried in unstructured data. By combining OpenAI's advanced reasoning with Elasticsearch's retrieval and governance capabilities, we're helping enterprises build AI agents that are accurate, secure and useful in production." "Great AI needs great context. We're excited to collaborate with Elastic to bring OpenAI's models closer to the data businesses rely on - helping them build AI agents that are more accurate, more secure, and ready to deliver real-world results," said Colleen Kapase, vice president, Strategic Global Partnerships & Ecosystems at OpenAI. Elastic and OpenAI will focus on delivering three customer outcomes: · Context-aware AI agents that retrieve accurate, permission-aware enterprise knowledge at scale, while improving agent efficiency. · Agentic observability that correlates telemetry and accelerates root cause investigation for SRE teams. · Agentic security operations that turn high volumes of alerts into evidence-backed investigations for analyst review and action. Elastic has supported OpenAI models through AI Assistants and connectors since 2023. This collaboration expands that foundation through deeper product integration and joint work to help customers build enterprise AI applications grounded in governed data. The companies plan to deepen their collaboration further across enterprise AI, security and observability. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Elastic plans to integrate OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber specific models into Elastic Security agentic workflows and extend governance to the OpenAI platform, enabling detection of anomalous OpenAI activity alongside endpoint and network threats. For developers using OpenAI Codex, Elastic will develop integration points that provide governed, real-time access to their unstructured enterprise data.
Elastic's shares jumped after the company announced Jina On-Prem, allowing businesses to deploy its Jina AI models in secure on-premises and air-gapped environments. The initiative targets organisations in regulated industries that must keep data in-house for security or regulatory compliance. The new offering provides enterprise-grade data extraction and semantic search capabilities without requiring internet connectivity or third-party AI services. By giving companies full control over their data, costs, and performance, Elastic aims to enhance services for clients requiring secure and independent data management systems. Elastic's shares closed at $61.21, up 3.6% from the previous close. The stock remains down 15.6% year-to-date and is trading 35.2% below its 52-week high of $94.47 from November 2024.