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:
Elastic is seeking a visionary Search Sales Specialist Leader to lead, scale, and accelerate the growth of our specialized AI Driven Search business. In this role, you will champion our enterprise Search, vector search, and generative AI innovations, helping the world's largest organizations unlock the power of their data to solve their most complex technical challenges. If you are an accomplished software sales leader with a proven track record of scaling high-performing enterprise teams and a passion for developer-centric infrastructure, we want you to shape the future of Search and GenAI with us.
What You Will Be Doing:
• Lead and Coach Teams: Manage, mentor, and coach a team of core Account Executives to successfully position, expand, and close complex Search and GenAI infrastructure deals. Actively foster an environment of teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement while traveling regularly to provide hands-on managerial support to your team as required.
• Drive GTM Strategy and Planning: Build, execute, and own a repeatable sales motion and whitespace prospecting strategy tailored to expanding the Elastic Search AI platform. You will actively contribute to and own sales plan creation, compensation structures, and customer segmentation.
• Hit quotas and follow our sales methods. Make sure you meet your sales targets. Lead by example. Maintain a disciplined approach to managing the pipeline and forecasting. Travel regularly to assist your team directly in deal creation and closure.
• Engage C-Suite and Technical Communities: Actively engage in strategic deal cycles to establish trusted-advisor relationships at the CxO/VP level. Establish and maintain highly collaborative relationships with representatives of the Open Source community and partner ecosystems.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner across Elastic's Leadership community to ensure a seamless customer experience. Work closely with Solutions Architects on Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements, collaborate with Product and Engineering to provide customer telemetry, and align with Marketing to drive regional pipeline.
What You Bring:
• SaaS Sales Leadership : Proven experience managing high-performing enterprise or commercial software sales teams, with a documented history of quota overachievement in co