Senior Solutions Architect

What You Will Be Doing:

• Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.
• Building a comprehensive understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.
• Creating and owning value based relationships at all levels in customer organizations.
• Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win.
• 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.
• Advising the sales team on effective ways of positioning Elastic products, solutions and services.
• Onboarding, educating and enabling our partners, and supporting them in sales cycles.
• Crafting collateral, contributing to programs and collaborating with other Elasticians to meet individual client needs.
• Being the voice of the customer and community to communicate needs, gaps, and improvements to our engineering and leadership teams.
• Deepening both your sales and technical skills through education while taking advantage of all the professional development opportunities provided by Elastic.

What You Will Bring Along:

• • A track record of success in a technical presales role-- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.
  • A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
  • A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.
  • A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors.
  • An ability to influence. Have you more than once convinced a team you worked for, of an idea, technology, or architectural pattern?
  • The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.
  • A willingness to travel 30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.

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