Description
We're seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Pre-Sales team. As a Solutions Architect, you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to our sales team, customers, partners, and community. You will understand and tackle our customer's business issues with the Elastic Stack, engage the regional Elastic community through events and programs, and enable sales through our Partners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.
- Developing a deep understanding of customers' goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.
- Crafting and owning value-based relationships at all levels in customer organizations.
- Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win.
- Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the Elastic products and solutions to demonstrate the value of our offerings in sales meetings, and at events such as meetups and conferences.
- Advising the sales team on effective ways of positioning Elastic products, solutions, and services.
- Onboarding, educating, and enabling our partners, and supporting them in sales cycles.
- Crafting collateral, contributing to programs, and collaborating with other Elasticians to meet individual client needs.
- Being the voice of the customer and community to communicate needs, gaps, and improvements to our engineering and leadership teams.
Requirements include:
- A track record of success in a technical presales role.
- A proven track record to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software, and technologies.
- A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner.
- A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors.
- An ability to influence.
- The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.
- A willingness to travel 30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE). On-Target Earnings (OTE) are based on a 70/30 pay mix (base salary / target variable).
The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is listed below. This range represents the lowest to highest OTE we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the OTE range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.