Full-Time

Senior Solutions Architect

Search, Bay Area

Posted on 9/27/2024

Elastic

Elastic

1,001-5,000 employees

Search and data analysis solutions provider

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$107.5k - $170.1kAnnually

+ Target Variable + On-Target Earnings

Senior

California, USA

Category
Solution Engineering
Sales & Solution Engineering
Required Skills
Sales
Requirements
  • A track record of success in a technical presales role-- 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.
Responsibilities
  • 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.

Elastic specializes in search-powered solutions, providing a suite of products that enable businesses to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time. Its main product, Elasticsearch, is a search engine that can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, helping organizations manage large volumes of data for better decision-making and operational efficiency. Elastic serves a wide range of clients, including large enterprises and government agencies across various industries such as technology, healthcare, and finance. Unlike many competitors, Elastic offers flexible deployment options and a subscription-based business model, allowing clients to choose between hosted services or managing the software themselves. The company's goal is to empower organizations to effectively utilize their data through powerful search and analytics tools.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$157.6M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

2012

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

24%

2 year growth

23%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Collaboration with Microsoft enhances integration capabilities, attracting enterprise clients.
  • Partnership with vTech Solution opens new market opportunities in the public sector.
  • Launch of Search AI Lake and serverless offerings expands Elastic's product portfolio.

What critics are saying

  • Recent Kibana vulnerability highlights potential security risks in Elastic's tools.
  • Dependency on third-party integrations may lead to compatibility challenges.
  • Expansion into generative AI faces competition from established AI service providers.

What makes Elastic unique

  • Elastic offers a comprehensive suite of search-powered solutions for diverse industries.
  • Elastic's AI-optimized architecture supports low-latency and native vector database capabilities.
  • Elastic's subscription-based model provides steady revenue from diverse deployment options.

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Benefits

Fully paid health coverage for you and your family

Flexible location and schedule for most roles.

Generous number of vacation days each year

20+ additional shut it down days

Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.

40 hours each year to use toward volunteering

Double your charitable giving

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