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Elastic

Searches enterprise data and monitors systems

Enterprise Account Executive

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSouth AfricaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Success in SaaS subscription sales in Enterprise accounts, evidenced by overachievement.
  • A proven record of acquiring new logos.
  • Ability to craft tailored narratives connecting technical capabilities in search, observability, and security to measurable business outcomes such as revenue gain or risk mitigation.
  • 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 build formal close plans with customers 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 the community relying on the company's solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Generate 100% net-new revenue by owning the full sales cycle, from cold outreach to close, focused on acquiring new logos in an assigned territory.
  • Drive adoption of AI-powered search, observability, and security solutions within new Mid-Market accounts while deepening engagement with existing accounts.
  • Help users and customers use search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
  • Position the platform by discussing cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
  • Address complex customer data challenges beyond simple transactions.
  • Explain the value of commercial features while advocating for open-source offerings.
  • Showcase ways the solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
  • Develop comprehensive business plans using community, customer, and partner ecosystems to drive territory growth.
  • Identify new opportunities and manage complex sales cycles.
  • Uncover customer pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks such as MEDDPICC to prioritize high-confidence deals.
  • Partner with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to accelerate deals and drive customer outcomes.

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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