Inside Account Executive (Hunter)

Elasticsearch B.V.; United States; À distance; USD 66 000 - 104 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health coverage

Flexible work locations

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time off

401k match

Résumé du poste

Elastic is seeking a Hunter Inside Sales Representative to drive new business within our Commercial segment. You will own a territory of ~500 accounts, focusing on whitespace opportunities and strategic prospecting to position our Search, Observability, and AI solutions across large commercial clients.

Crafting a proactive territory strategy, collaborating across teams, and effectively negotiating terms will be key.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of sales experience in hunting or creating new accounts.
• Ability to plan and execute pipeline strategies in whitespace accounts.
• Collaborative and inventive problem-solver.
• Self-starter ready to thrive in a fast-growing environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication and negotiation skills.

Responsabilités

• Develop and build a territory plan for ~500 accounts you own in a defined territory.
• Focus entirely on whitespace accounts.
• Create a strategic prospecting strategy to gain introductions and position Elastic technologies.
• Identify and qualify new opportunities using inbound leads, your network, and partners.
• Collaborate with sales development, marketing, partners, product, and customer service teams to drive results.
• Negotiate pricing and contractual terms to close deals.
• Accurately forecast territory performance and required resources per our sales process.

Connaissances

Territory planning

Whitespace selling

Forecasting

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Description du poste

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:

As a Hunter Inside Sales Representative, you will be a pivotal part of Elastic’s growth focusing on selling, managing, and growing net new accounts within our Commercial segment. Our Hunter Virtual Sales Reps are individual contributors, focused on building new business, within a set of whitespace accounts. Within this role you will have the opportunity to engage and partner with large Commercial accounts solving critical business needs for those customers while positioning our suite of products across (Search, Observability, and Search). Are you someone who is a go-getter that has to drive to excel in a fast-growing segment of new accounts? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Develop and build a territory plan for ~500 accounts that you will actively own, call, and manage in a defined territory
• Focusing entirely on Whitespace Accounts
• Create a strategic prospecting strategy that you will execute daily to gain introductions, solve business challenges, and effectively position our technology
• Identify and qualify new opportunities leveraging your own creativity, inbound lead flow, personal prospecting efforts, contacts, existing accounts and partners
• Work cross-functionally with our sales development, marketing, partner, product and customer service teams to deliver outstanding results
• Negotiate pricing and contractual terms as required to close the sale
• Accurately forecast profitable and predictable territory performance and required resources through adherence of our sales process

What You Bring:

• 2+ years of experience in sales roles, that are defined as hunting or creating new accounts
• Strong ability to plan and execute strategies related to driving pipeline in whitespace accounts
• A collaborative and inventive approach to problem-solving
• The desire and ability to operate and thrive in an ambitious, self-starting environment
• Technologically adept and business acumen focused with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills

Bonus Points:

• Prior experience at an open-source or developer‑centric infrastructure company.
• Familiarity with observability (logs, metrics, traces) or security analytics (SIEM/XDR) use cases.

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 employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. 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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Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE). On-Target Earnings (OTE) are based on a 50/50 pay mix (base salary / target variable).

The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is listed below. This range represents the lowest to highest OTE we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the OTE range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$65,600—$103,700 USD

The typical starting Target Variable range for this role is:

$65,500—$103,600 USD

The typical starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is:

$131,100—$207,300 USD