Enterprise Account Executive

Elastic

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

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $146k
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This role pays less than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$256,193 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $146k versus about $200k 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

As an Enterprise Account Executive - Midwest, you will join the sales team to drive net-new revenue and expansion within strategic accounts. You will own a defined territory, building your own pipeline through proactive outbound outreach while managing complex, multi-stakeholder deals in a consumption-based model. Your daily responsibilities include performing deep discovery using MEDDPICC frameworks, delivering tailored product demonstrations, and leading high-stakes contract negotiations to secure multi-year commitments. To succeed, you must possess technical fluency in search, observability, security analytics, and cloud economics. You will collaborate with Solutions Architects and Customer Success teams to solve problems related to structured and unstructured data, vector search, and infrastructure. The role requires expertise in navigating usage-based pricing models and promoting the Search AI platform to help organizations manage their data at scale.

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

  • Proven success in closing complex Enterprise deals for 5+ years.
  • Experience working within a consumption-based or usage-model environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply MEDDPICC or equivalent frameworks for discovery and qualification.
  • Track record of delivering executive-level presentations and demos that tie 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).

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