Enterprise Account Executive

Elastic

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$113,300–$179,200 / yr
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24 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role $146k
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This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $146,250–$267,900 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $146k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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About Elastic

Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.

Elastic currently has 240 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Enterprise Account Executive

Enterprise Account Executive, Expand Southeast joins the sales team to drive net-new revenue and expansion within strategic accounts. This individual will own a defined territory, building a proactive pipeline through outbound outreach while managing complex, multi-stakeholder deals in a consumption-based model. Key responsibilities include performing deep discovery using MEDDPICC frameworks, delivering tailored narratives and live demos of search, observability, and security capabilities, and leading high-stakes contract negotiations for multi-year commitments. The role requires technical fluency in cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures to position the Search AI platform effectively. Candidates must possess expertise in SaaS sales, experience with vector or traditional search, and familiarity with logs, metrics, traces, and security analytics like SIEM/XDR. This position solves critical business problems by helping organizations leverage structured and unstructured data for improved search and security outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Execute a proactive outbound cadence to generate at least 50% of your booked opportunities.
  • Conduct deep discovery and qualification using the MEDDPICC framework to identify high-confidence deals.
  • Deliver tailored narratives and live demos that map product capabilities to measurable business outcomes.
  • Develop formal close plans with customers while maintaining high accuracy in CRM forecasting.
  • Lead high-stakes contract negotiations and pricing discussions to secure multi-year consumption commitments.
  • Position the platform by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
  • Partner with internal teams like Solutions Architects and Customer Success to accelerate deal cycles.

What we're looking for

  • Experience of 5+ years closing complex Enterprise deals in a consumption-based or usage-model environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply MEDDPICC or equivalent frameworks for discovery and qualification.
  • Proven track record of delivering executive-level presentations that link product capabilities to business outcomes.
  • Ability to lead high-stakes contract negotiations and secure multi-year, high-ACV contracts.
  • Technical fluency in observability, security, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
  • Experience at an open-source or developer-centric infrastructure company (preferred).
  • Familiarity with observability or security analytics use cases (preferred).
  • Export controls.

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