Public Sector Account Executive (Education)

Elastic; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Vacation days

Matching donations

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Public Sector Account Executive focused on education. You will own the full sales cycle—from cold outreach to close—driving adoption of Elastic's AI-powered search, observability, and security solutions. Build executive-ready value stories and navigate complex deals across public sector accounts.

The role emphasizes hunting new logos while expanding relationships with health customers to solve more data challenges using Elastic technologies.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in SaaS subscription sales within education.

Responsibilities

• Own full sales cycles from cold outreach to close.
• Develop strategic plans to acquire new logos and grow existing accounts.
• Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice with a value-based narrative.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps.

Skills

SaaS sales

Education sector sales

Open Source

MEDDPICC

Cloud fluency

Negotiation

CRM

Tools

CRM

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 Analytics company, is seeking a dynamic Public Sector Account Executive. To excel as an Account Executive at Elastic, you need a blend of high-level technical curiosity and the gravitas of a value-based seller. Because Elastic isn’t just a “product” but a versatile search, observability, and security platform, the role requires moving beyond simple transactions to solving complex data problems.

We are seeking a Public Sector Account Executive dedicated to evangelising and extending elastics footprint across the education sector. In this role, you will own the full sales cycle—from cold outreach to close—focused on acquiring new logos and working with existing health customers to help solve more of their problems using elastic. If you excel at navigating new organizations and demonstrating the value of advanced search technology to stakeholders, this is your opportunity to drive our next phase of growth.

What You Will Be Doing

• Drive Adoption: Fuel the adoption of Elastic’s AI-powered search solutions, Observability and Security solutions within new Mid-Market accounts while deepening engagement with existing ones.
• Be a Trusted Advisor: Assist users and customers in harnessing the full power of search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
• Domain & cloud acumen: Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
• Solve Complex Problems: Move beyond simple transactions to address the intricate data challenges our customers face.
• Champion Open Source: Articulate the value of our advanced commercial features while advocating for our Open-Source offerings.
• Identify New Use Cases: Showcase how Elastic’s solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
• Strategic Planning: Develop comprehensive business plans leveraging community, customer, and partner ecosystems to drive significant territory growth.
• Navigate Sales Cycles: Proactively identify new opportunities and successfully manage complex sales cycles.
• Deep discovery & qualification: Uncover pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks like MEDDPICC so you chase only the highest-confidence deals.
• Cross-functional partnership: Work hand-in-glove with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps to accelerate deals and drive exceptional customer outcomes.

What You Bring

• The Right Blend: A combination of high-level technical curiosity and the grit of a value-based seller.
• Proven Track Record: Success in SaaS subscription sales within the education sector, evidenced by overachievement.
• Mindset: Pure focus on acquiring new logos with a record to prove it.
• Value Storytelling: The ability to craft tailored narratives that link Elastic’s technical capabilities (Search, Observability, Security) to measurable business outcomes like revenue gain or risk mitigation is critical.
• Executive negotiation & closing: Lead high-stakes contract and pricing discussions
• Technical & cloud fluency: Comfortable discussing a broad range of technical topics including security, observability, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
• Relationship Building: Adept at establishing credibility with both technical developers and executive leadership.
• Mutual deal strategy & forecast accuracy: Consistent, predictable and accurate sales forecasting skills. Collaborate with customers to build formal close plans and keep your CRM up to date.
• Ability to create alignment across teams to accelerate deals
• AI Mindset: Use new technologies for performance advantage and deal structuring
• Open-Source Appreciation: Enthusiasm for the Open-Source model and the community relying on our solutions

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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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