Sr. Solutions Architect - Expand West (presales)

Elastic Elastic · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · SA - AMER - Enterprise West

This role is a Sr. Solutions Architect for Elastic, focusing on pre-sales technical expertise for their Search AI Platform. The role involves understanding customer needs, articulating how Elastic's offerings address them, enabling sales teams and partners, and acting as a liaison between customers and engineering. While the company is an "AI Company" and its platform uses AI, the Solutions Architect role itself is not directly building or shipping AI models or systems, but rather selling and explaining them.

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
  • understanding of customer needs
  • articulating technical benefits
  • relationship building
  • collaboration with sales teams
  • presentation skills

Nice to have

  • experience with Elastic Stack
  • experience with AI/ML concepts
  • experience with search technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • technical presales role
  • technical win
  • articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies