Senior Public Sector Account Executive

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 searching for a Swiss Public Sector Account Executive to acquire and expand our public customer base. As a Public AE, you will be focused on building new business and growing the Elastic footprint within new and existing Public Sector customers whilst also ensuring that those customers are successfully leveraging Elastic across their organization. Are you ready to help users tackle their hardest security and observability problems through the power of search? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Building awareness and driving demand for Elastic solutions within the Swiss Public Sector
• Consultative Selling: Identify business challenges and create proposals for prospects and customers
• Uncovering new and diverse applications use cases to enable our users to work smarter, not harder
• Collaborating across Elastic business functions to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Create clear Goals, thorough qualification and accurate forecasting

What You Bring:

• A track-record of success in selling complex software based solutions into Swiss Public Sector accounts, demonstrated by overachievement of quota and strong customer references
• Know how the Swiss Public Sector functions, what frameworks they follow and how RFPs are successfully concluded.
• A deep understanding and preferably experience selling into the ecosystem we live in, including Enterprise Search, Logging, SIEM, APM and Cloud
• The ability to build relationships and credibility with both Developers and Executives
• Problem solving skills that require a Holistic approach in order to understand the bigger picture
• Predictable, structured and accurate forecasting capabilities, Experienced SFDC and Clari user, not scared of the MEDDIC Qualification Framework.
• Excellent Time Management Skills and high level of Entrepreneurial spirit.
• An appreciation for the Open Source go-to-market model and the community of users who rely on our solutions every single day
• Fluent in Swiss/German and English

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.

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