Sales Development Representative (India Public Sector)

Referral Board; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Parental leave

Volunteer time

Donation matching

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is hiring a Sales Development Representative for the India Public Sector. You will engage prospective customers, qualify opportunities, and fuel the sales pipeline in collaboration with Account Executives and Marketing.

You will identify target accounts, execute strategic campaigns, and spark meaningful conversations across channels, leveraging AI-powered tools to personalize outreach and drive value.

Qualifications

• Sales, Sales Development, or customer-facing experience.
• Experience selling into India Public Sector is a plus.
• Strong drive to succeed and build a career in sales.
• Highly coachable mindset with openness to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives and Marketing to identify target accounts and generate pipeline.
• Prospect into India Public Sector accounts using multi-channel outreach.
• Create meaningful conversations by asking questions and uncovering business challenges.
• Leverage LinkedIn and AI-powered tools to research accounts and personalize outreach.
• Develop a solid understanding of Elastic platform and AI-powered solutions.

Skills

Sales experience

Public sector sales

Coachable mindset

Curiosity about tech

Communication skills

Organizational skills

AI-first mindset

Tools

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Demandbase

Sumble

Job description

Sales Development Representative (India Public Sector)

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:

Are you ready to accelerate your sales career atElastic, the Search AI company?

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) at Elastic, you’ll play a key role in driving our continued growth by engaging prospective customers, understanding their business challenges, and creating high-quality opportunities that fuel our sales pipeline. Working closely with Account Executives and Marketing, you’ll identify the right prospects, spark meaningful conversations, and help organizations discover how Elastic’s platform can solve their most critical business challenges.

We’ve built a collaborative workspace for India, where teamwork, continuous learning, and career development are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that drive, curiosity, and coachability are the foundations of long‑term success. If you’re eager to learn, embrace feedback, and make an impact, we’d love to meet you.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Partner for Success: Collaborate closely with your Account Executives and Marketing to identify target accounts, execute strategic campaigns, and generate high-quality pipeline across your territory.
• Prospecting: Prospect into strategic India Public Sector accounts through a combination of phone, email, social selling, events, and other outbound channels.
• Create Meaningful Conversations: Engage inbound and outbound prospects through a thoughtful multi-channel approach. Ask great questions, uncover business challenges, and qualify opportunities that create value for both the customer and our sales teams.
• Leverage Technology: Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Demandbase, Sumble, AI-powered tools, and other sales technologies to research accounts, identify key decision-makers, personalize your outreach, and maximize your effectiveness.
• Become an Elastic Expert: Develop a strong understanding of the Elastic platform, our AI-powered solutions, and the industries we serve so you can confidently articulate business value and connect customer challenges with the right solutions.
• Learn, Grow, and Own Your Development: Take ownership of your growth by embracing coaching, continuous feedback, and ongoing enablement. You’ll work alongside experienced colleagues who are invested in helping you build a successful long‑term career at Elastic.

What You Bring:

• Sales, Sales Development, or customer‑facing experience
• Experience selling into or working with the India Public Sector, with an understanding of ministries, defence, healthcare, and government agencies.
• A strong drive to succeed and a genuine desire to build a successful career in sales.
• A highly coachable mindset: you actively seek feedback, embrace challenges, and continuously look for ways to improve.
• Curiosity and a passion for understanding technology, customer challenges, and how businesses grow.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage prospects confidently through phone, email, LinkedIn, and other digital channels.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize effectively and manage multiple opportunities.
• AI‑First Mindset: You embrace AI as a thought partner, using it to learn faster, work smarter, personalize outreach, and continuously improve.
• Resilience, determination, and the ambition to consistently achieve and exceed your goals.
• A collaborative mindset and the motivation to contribute to a high‑performing team where everyone’s success matters.

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

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 [e-mail] We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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