Sales Development Representative

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

Elastic is expanding its Sales Development team to support the explosive adoption of our offerings.

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) you will play a critical role in the success of our sales organization in India. Your role will involve proactively identifying, nurturing, and creating new opportunities. This is accomplished by a blend of inbound and outbound initiatives. Unlike most Sales Development organizations, we care about the quality of the interactions you have with our users and believe in disciplined and programmatic engagement with prospects.

You will develop and foster a wide range of technical, analytical, and sales skills that will lay the foundation for your future. Our goal is to set you up for success as an SDR while providing opportunities for you to grow and advance your career at Elastic.

What You Will Be Doing:

As an SDR organization we spend most of our time working to help Elastic users make the most of our offerings. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with sales, marketing and our partner team to develop new strategies to build our sales pipeline and grow our business
• Balance the reactive work of responding to interested users with a creative and proactive approach to identify new opportunities
• Use Salesforce, Marketo, LinkedIn, and other prospecting tools to research accounts, identify key contacts and craft targeted messaging
• Learn our technology and optimally communicate our value proposition with a technical audience. Work to understand their goals and challenges to better understand how we can help

What You Bring:

There isn’t a cookie-cutter mold for who we hire, but there are some common qualities each member of our hard-working team possesses:

• 2-3 years of experience in managing sales (similar profile of SDR/BDR/ Inside sales/ Sales)
• Open to feedback, genuinely curious and constantly looking for ways to learn and improve
• Genuine love of technology, with the ability to learn and communicate complex technical concepts - Don’t worry, we’ll give you a lot of resources!
• Comfortable with Tele coverage - this is the path to success!
• Have an understanding of OUTREACH (or similar platform) to build engagement sequences with prospects (Tele, Email)
• Experience in Inbound and Outbound customer engagements
• Hitting your monthly targets by being results-oriented and focused on achieving, through self-discipline, creativity, and passion

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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