Inside Account Executive

Elastic • Austin, TX

3d

About The Position

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. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
As a Hunter Inside Sales Representative, you will be a pivotal part of Elastic’s growth focusing on selling, managing, and growing net new accounts within our Commercial segment. Our Hunter Virtual Sales Rep’s are individual contributors, focused on building new business, within a set of whitespace accounts. Within this role you will have the opportunity to engage and partner with large Commercial accounts solving critical business needs for those customers while positioning our suite of products across (Search, Observability, and Search). Are you someone who is a go-getter that has to drive to excel in a fast-growing segment of new accounts. If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in sales roles, that are defined as hunting or creating new accounts
• Strong ability to plan and execute strategies related to driving pipeline in whitespace accounts
• A collaborative and inventive approach to problem-solving
• The desire and ability to operate and thrive in an ambitious, self-starting environment
• Technologically adept and business acumen focused with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills
• Role will be based out of Austin, Texas (preferred) covering accounts across the United States

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and build a territory plan for 100 to 150 accounts that you will actively own, call, and manage in a defined territory
• Focusing entirely on Whitespace Accounts
• Create a strategic prospecting strategy that you will execute daily to gain introductions, solve business challenges, and effectively position our technology
• Identify and qualify new opportunities leveraging your own creativity, inbound lead flow, personal prospecting efforts, contacts, existing accounts and partners
• Work cross-functionally with our sales development, marketing, partner, product and customer service teams to deliver outstanding results
• Negotiate pricing and contractual terms as required to close the sale
• Accurately forecast profitable and predictable territory performance and required resources through adherence of our sales process

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed