Senior Public Sector Account Executive (intel/fcdo)

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · United Kingdom · Sales - EMEA - UKI

This role is for a Senior Public Sector Account Executive at Elastic, a company focused on Search AI. The primary responsibility is to develop business within the intelligence community, expanding current business, building new relationships, and growing the Elastic footprint. The role involves selling SaaS subscriptions for Observability, Search, and Security solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Building awareness and driving demand for Elastic solutions within the FCDO & intelligence community, by helping users and customers derive value from a range of use cases.
  2. Serving as an evangelist for our Open Source offerings while communicating and demonstrating the capabilities of our commercial features to key stakeholders.
  3. Uncovering new and diverse use cases to enable our users to derive maximum value.
  4. Collaborating across Elastic business functions to ensure a seamless customer experience.
  5. Working thoughtfully with customers within the intelligence community to identify new business opportunities, manage the sales cycle and close complex transactions.

Skills

Required

  • SaaS subscription sales
  • FCDO & intelligence community sales
  • Enterprise Search
  • Logging
  • Security
  • APM
  • Cloud sales
  • Relationship building
  • Sales cycle management
  • Forecasting
  • Open Source GTM understanding
  • Active security clearance

Nice to have

  • Previous experience selling in an open-source model

What the JD emphasized

  • A track record of success in selling SaaS subscriptions into the FCDO & intelligence community, demonstrated by overachievement of quota and a strong network within the community.
  • A deep understanding and preferably experience selling into the ecosystem we live in, including Enterprise Search, Logging, Security, APM and Cloud.
  • The ability to build relationships and credibility with both key stakeholders within the intelligence community and the knowledge of how to navigate this unique sector.
  • A current active security clearance.