Account Executive

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · South Africa · Sales - EMEA - Emerging

Enterprise Account Executive for Elastic, a Search AI company, focusing on selling AI-powered search, observability, and security solutions to new and existing mid-market accounts. The role requires technical curiosity, value-based selling, and navigating complex sales cycles to drive adoption and solve customer data challenges.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive Adoption: Fuel the adoption of Elastic’s AI-powered search solutions, Observability and Security solutions within new Mid-Market accounts while deepening engagement with existing ones.
  2. Be a Trusted Advisor: Assist users and customers in harnessing the full power of search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
  3. 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.
  4. Solve Complex Problems: Move beyond simple transactions to address the intricate data challenges our customers face.
  5. Identify New Use Cases: Showcase how Elastic’s solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.

Skills

Required

  • SaaS subscription sales in Enterprise accounts
  • Value-based selling
  • Technical curiosity
  • Complex sales cycles
  • Executive negotiation & closing
  • Relationship Building with technical developers and executive leadership
  • Sales forecasting
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Nice to have

  • Open-Source Appreciation

What the JD emphasized

  • Value Storytelling: The ability to craft tailored narratives that link Elastic’s technical capabilities (Search, Observability, Security) to measurable business outcomes like revenue gain or risk mitigation is critical.
  • Technical & cloud fluency: Comfortable discussing a broad range of technical topics including security, observability, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
  • AI Mindset: Use new technologies for performance advantage and deal structuring