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.
What Is The Role
The Revenue Journey Office (RJO) is part of Global Revenue Operations. It manages the tools and processes for Elastic's revenue journey. This role specifically focuses on managing all pre-pipeline and top-of-funnel prospecting activities by our sales team.
As a Program Manager, you will own and continuously improve key business processes and systems from the Customer Awareness to Opportunity Qualification stages of the revenue journey. You will work with teams from Sales Development, Inside Sales, Mid-Market & Enterprise Sales, Revenue Operations, Marketing/Demand Generation, IT, and Product. Your goal is to develop strategies for and optimize prospecting systems, tools, and processes. Your efforts here will improve our sellers’ productivity, accelerate pipeline generation, and support Elastic's growth.
What You Will Be Doing
• Align the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of global revenue processes and systems supporting inbound lead qualification, outbound prospecting, and pipeline generation.
• Create standard prospecting journeys in collaboration with your business stakeholders. Define playbooks, success milestones, and health metrics. Establish seamless handoff processes between SDRs, IAEs, and Field Sales to ensure leads convert to opportunities faster.
• Serve as the tool strategy owner for key prospecting systems (e.g. Surfe, ZoomInfo, Sales Navigator, Demandbase), ensuring solid data quality, governance, automation, and user adoption.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that simplify daily prospecting workflows, reduce manual data entry, and improve the overall user experience for SDRs, IAEs, and AEs.
• Partner with stakeholders across Revenue Operations, Sales Development, Inside Sales, Field Sales, Marketing, IT, and Product to prioritize enhancements, manage change, and drive adoption of new capabilities.
• Establish program governance. Define success metrics (e.g., lead conversion rates, meetings booked, pipeline generated) and reporting that will measure tool adoption, the health of top-of-funnel processes, and overall business impact.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendor capabilities while helping shape the revenue operations roadmap for the pre-pipeline ecosystem.
• Actively identify cross-functional risks to your program and the strategy for y