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Manager, Sales Development

Elastic · Austin, TX · On-site

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About Elastic

Power insights and outcomes with The Elasticsearch Platform. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you accelerate time to insight. Try Elastic toda... Backed by NEA and Amplify.

About the role

As the Manager, Sales Development , you will lead, coach, and scale a high-performing team of 8 Sales Development Representatives (SDRs). You will partner closely with Sales Leadership, Marketing, and Partners to ensure your team uncovers high-value pipeline within top-tier enterprise accounts. This role requires an analytical, hyper-organized, and operationally sound leader who thrives on building teams, driving quota accountability, and navigating complex product ecosystems.

What they're looking for

  • SDR Management Experience: 2+ years of direct people management experience specifically leading Sales Development Representatives
  • Proven Attainment Track Record: Proven history of consistently achieving or exceeding team quota, meeting metrics, and pipeline generation targets
  • Ground-Up Building & Performance Management: Hands-on experience building, scaling, and structuring SDR teams, including running end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, and performance management
  • Technical Depth: Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate complex, highly technical products (e.g., Data, Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Observability, Search, or AI)
  • Operational & Analytical Mindset: Strong data fluency—ability to analyze pipeline metrics, run performance forecasting, identify conversion bottlenecks, and implement operational fixes
  • Enterprise Outbound Expertise: Deep understanding of strategic account-based sales methodologies, executive persona mapping, and multi-channel outreach
More about this role

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 the Manager, Sales Development , you will lead, coach, and scale a high-performing team of 8 Sales Development Representatives (SDRs).

You will partner closely with Sales Leadership, Marketing, and Partners to ensure your team uncovers high-value pipeline within top-tier enterprise accounts. This role requires an analytical, hyper-organized, and operationally sound leader who thrives on building teams, driving quota accountability, and navigating complex product ecosystems.

This is a hybrid role based in our Austin, TX hub (3 days per week in-office) focused...

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