Regional Vice President

Triwill Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 133,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching up to $2000

Volunteer hours up to 40 per year

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Regional Vice President to lead the Japan Region and shape Elastic’s sales strategy for the Japanese market. You will build a scalable, repeatable sales motion, drive new logo acquisition, and expand existing customers while reporting to the Area VP for Japan.

You will manage Account Executives, engage in strategic deals, and partner with Product, Marketing, and Partner teams to deliver customer value.

Qualifications

• Proven sales leader with experience running high-performing sales teams.
• Experienced to lead in a matrix organization.
• Growth mindset: resilient, curious, and motivated to build something extraordinary.
• Entrepreneurial spirit in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable sales strategies and processes.
• SaaS sales leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of Account Executives in the Japan Region.
• Build and execute a winning sales strategy tailored to the needs of the Japanese market.
• Foster a culture of energy, growth mindset, and high performance—motivating your team to achieve extraordinary results.
• Lead from the front: actively engage in strategic deals, coach your team, and set the standard for excellence.
• Design and implement scalable sales processes, compensation structures, and customer segmentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and Partner teams to deliver value and innovation to customers.
• Ensure quota attainment and drive Elastic’s sales methodology.
• Champion teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement.
• Travel regularly to assist in deal creation and closure, as well as meet any managerial needs and provide support to your team as required.
• Partnering across Elastic’s leadership community to ensure a seamless customer experience

Skills

Sales leadership

Team management

Strategic planning

Data-driven decisions

SaaS expertise

Job description

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, the Search AI company, is looking for a high-energy Regional Vice President to manage the Japanese Region. This position offers a unique opportunity to manage and shape Elastic’s strategy for the Japanese market including new logo acquisition, customer expansion and the creation of a high-performance environment. You will be responsible leadership across the sector - establishing a scalable, repeatable sales motion and unlocking growth in one of Elastic’s most promising regions. This role will report into the Area Vice President for Japan.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage and grow a team of Account Executives in the Japan Region.
• Build and execute a winning sales strategy tailored to the needs of the Japanese market.
• Foster a culture of energy, growth mindset, and high performance—motivating your team to achieve extraordinary results.
• Lead from the front: actively engage in strategic deals, coach your team, and set the standard for excellence.
• Design and implement scalable sales processes, compensation structures, and customer segmentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and Partner teams to deliver value and innovation to customers.
• Ensure quota attainment and drive Elastic’s sales methodology.
• Champion teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement.
• Travel regularly to assist in deal creation and closure, as well as meet any managerial needs and provide support to your team as required.
• Partnering across Elastic’s leadership community to ensure a seamless customer experience

What You Bring With You:

• Proven sales leader with experience running high-performing sales teams.
• Experienced to lead in a matrix organization
• Growth mindset: resilient, curious, and motivated to build something extraordinary.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable sales strategies and processes.
• SaaS sales leadership experience.

Bonus Points:

• Experience working within an Open Source model

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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