Solutions Architect - General Business, East (Presales)

Elastic • Georgia, United States, GA

1d • $128,000 - $202,400 • Remote

About The Position

As a Solutions Architect at Elastic, you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to our sales team, customers, partners, and community. You will understand and tackle our customer’s business issues with the Elastic Stack, engage the regional Elastic community through events and programs, and enable sales through our Partners. A successful SA at Elastic will be passionate about perfection; taking the initiative to improve both themselves and the team through continuous learning and questioning the status quo.

Requirements

• A track record of success in a technical presales role-- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.
• A proven track record 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.
• Crafting 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.
• Crafting 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 improvements 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.

Benefits

• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Flexible locations and schedules
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Company matches up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• Stock program eligibility

What This Job Offers

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