About the company
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Enterprise Solution Architecture organization focused on driving high levels of engagement and performance
- Deliver consistent, foundational, and creative technical presales solutions needed to meet and exceed quarterly and annual sales targets
- Work closely with executive Sales leadership and Sales teams to develop strategic and technical territory and account plans, along with technical tools/programs to support sales campaigns and initiatives
- Lead performance and key talent, ensuring that we are taking the necessary actions to attract and retain top talent, further develop a rich and diverse workforce, and manage performance at all levels
- Jointly own customer success, leveraging best practices and focus to ensure your customers are successful in addressing their business challenges
- Evangelize the Elastic solutions in industry-recognized forums such as tradeshows and meetups
- Work collaboratively with support, product management, engineering, and other organizations to ensure alignment with your Eastern Regional team and provide process and product feedback, and resolve critical customer situations and ensure your organization is representing the voice of the customer to these organizations inside Elastic
- Be a thought leader to manage growth in the region and organization and be able to help identify areas for innovation and optimization that the growth opportunities create
Requirements
- 5+ years of Sales Engineering Leadership experience, including prior second-line experience as a Director leading first-line Managers and Individual Contributing SEs
- 7+ years of Sales Engineering individual contributor experience, or relevant industry experience as an individual contributor
- Experience working and a strong foundational knowledge in the following solution areas is strongly preferred
- Previous experience selling into the Fortune 100 type of strategic accounts
- Experience selling and working with pure cloud-based solutions and/or open source solutions
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Microsoft Azure is preferred, and Solution Architect level certifications are a bonus
- Experience working with ElasticSearch and/or any of Elastic’s technology solutions is preferred
- Technically curious, and able to articulate the value that technology brings to solving customer problems
- Previously led SE organizations larger than 50 people, and over $250M a year in quota coverage
- Proven executive communication skills – written and oral. Ability to communicate complex ideas cross-functionally across all levels both internally and externally
- Ability to lead diverse groups of people and able to challenge and develop the team to exceed their goals both personally and professionally
- Strong ability to inspire others, support an inclusive culture and role model for Elastic’s Source Code
- Travel will be required across the East Region as well as where the business requires it globally
Conditions
- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE). On-Target Earnings (OTE) are based on a 70/30 pay mix (base salary / target variable).
- The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is listed below. This range represents the lowest to highest OTE we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
- An employee's position within the OTE range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant