USD per year
Inside Account Executive
Distributed Locations: Sydney, Australia
About Elastic:
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.
What is The Role:
Elastic is looking for a driven, curious, high-impact Inside Account Executive to accelerate both new business acquisition and expansion for mid markets. You’ll operate across the full sales cycle—from pipeline generation through to close—while helping unlock growth opportunities. If you’re passionate about technology, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to help customers solve complex challenges through the power of search, we’d love to hear from you.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Own your territory & build pipeline: Develop and execute a proactive outbound cadence (email, call, social) that generates at least 50% of your booked opportunities.
- Deep discovery & qualification: Uncover pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks like MEDDPICC so you chase only the highest-confidence deals.
- Value storytelling & demos: Craft and deliver tailored narratives and live demos that map Elastic’s Search, Observability, and Security capabilities to measurable business outcomes. Confidently present to both Technical and Executive audiences.
- Mutual deal strategy & forecast accuracy: Collaborate with customers to build formal close plans and keep your CRM up-to-date, maintaining at least 90% forecast accuracy within ±10%.
- Executive negotiation & closing: Lead high-stakes contract and pricing discussions—defend your value, structure give/get trades, and land multi-year consumption commitments.
- Domain & cloud acumen: Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
- Cross-functional partnership: Work hand-in-glove with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps to accelerate deals and drive exceptional customer outcomes.
What You Bring:
- Proven SaaS quota-carrying success: More than 3 years closing complex deals, consistently overachieving targets in a consumption-based or usage-model environment.
- Expert discovery & qualification skills: Demonstrated ability to apply MEDDPICC or equivalent frameworks to drive disciplined pipeline and eliminate low-probability deals.
- Compelling value storytellers: Track record of delivering executive-level presentations and demos that tie product capabilities to real dollars saved, revenue gained, or risk mitigated.
- Strong negotiation chops: History of landing multi-year, high-ACV contracts while protecting margin and securing executive stakeholder buy-in.
- Technical & cloud fluency: Comfortable discussing a broad range of technical topics including observability, security, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
- Collaborative mindset & coachability: A learner who partners effectively with internal teams,...
Elastic helps turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI. They offer solutions in Search, Observability, Security, and Generative AI, enabling real-time insights, AI-driven security analytics, and unified app and infrastructure visibility. They emphasize open source, distributed work culture, and data security.
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