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Strategic Account Executive - AI Natives - West

Elastic · Washington, United States · On-site

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About the role

Elastic is building a dedicated AI Native Accounts organization focused on partnering with the world's most innovative AI companies. We are seeking an extraordinary Strategic Account Executive to help define how the next generation of AI companies build, scale, and innovate using the Elastic Search AI Platform. This is one of the most strategic individual contributor roles at Elastic.

What they're looking for

  • Enterprise Sales Excellence: A proven track record of consistently exceeding quota while managing complex enterprise software sales cycles involving executive stakeholders, technical decision-makers, and global organizations
  • Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop long-term account strategies, identify growth opportunities, navigate complex organizations, and execute against multi-year customer plans
  • Cross-Functional Leadership : Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Strategic Alliances to deliver exceptional customer outcomes
  • Operational Excellence: Highly disciplined with expertise in account planning, forecasting, pipeline management, executive inspection, and structured sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC
  • Experience selling AI infrastructure, enterprise search, cloud platforms, developer tools, cybersecurity, observability, data platforms, or enterprise software into strategic enterprise accounts
  • Experience working with AI-native organizations, hyperscalers, or other high-growth technology companies
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.

Elastic is building a dedicated AI Native Accounts organization focused on partnering with the world's most innovative AI companies. We are seeking an extraordinary Strategic Account Executive to help define how the next generation of AI companies build, scale, and innovate using the Elastic Search AI Platform. This is one of the most strategic individual contributor roles at Elastic.

Rather than managing a broad territory, you will own a highly selective portfolio of globally strategic AI-native customers. You will work directly with executive and technical...

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