Account Executive - Public Sector

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · India · Sales - APJ - India

This role is for an Enterprise Account Executive focused on the Public Sector (States, Education, Healthcare) in India. The primary responsibility is to build new business and grow the Elastic footprint within their assigned accounts by selling Elastic's Search AI Platform solutions, which include enterprise search, security, and observability. The role involves driving demand, identifying new use cases, collaborating internally, managing the sales cycle, and closing complex transactions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Building awareness and driving demand for Elastic solutions within States & EDU & Healthcare accounts by helping users and customers derive value from their data sets.
  2. Serving as an evangelist for our Open-Source offerings while communicating and demonstrating the capabilities of our commercial features
  3. Uncovering new and diverse use cases to enable our users to work smarter, not harder
  4. Collaborating across Elastic business functions to ensure a seamless customer experience
  5. Working thoughtfully with customers to identify new business opportunities, managing through the sales cycle and closing complex transactions

Skills

Required

  • Track-record of success in selling Software/Security Solutions/SaaS subscriptions into net new complex accounts
  • Overachievement of quota and strong customer references
  • Deep understanding and preferably experience selling into the ecosystem we live in, including Enterprise Search, Logging, Security, APM and Cloud
  • Ability to build relationships and credibility with both Developers and Executives
  • Predictability and accurate forecasting capabilities using SFDC
  • Appreciation for the Open Source go-to-market model and the community of users who rely on our solutions every single day
  • Previous experience selling into the Enterprise accounts included in this territory

Nice to have

  • Previous experience selling in an Open Source model