Senior Solutions Architect, Pursuit (presales)

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · United States · SA - AMER - Mgmt and Support

This role is a Senior Solutions Architect (Presales) for Elastic, focusing on technical advisory and sales enablement for customers and partners. The role involves understanding customer needs, articulating how Elastic's Search AI Platform addresses them, and supporting the sales team. It is not a hands-on AI/ML development or research role.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.
  2. Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.
  3. Crafting and owning value based relationships at all levels in customer organizations.
  4. Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • technical presales experience
  • experience selling and implementing technology
  • ability to articulate and sell benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies
  • customer relationship management
  • ability to devise architectures
  • ability to influence
  • ability to inspire groups

Nice to have

  • understanding of Elastic products and solutions
  • experience with Elastic Stack
  • experience with AI/ML concepts in a sales context

What the JD emphasized

  • technical presales role
  • selling and implementing technology
  • articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies
  • customer relations
  • architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors
  • influence
  • inspire groups