RVP - AI Natives

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 269,000; 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 (40h/yr)

Parental leave 16 weeks

Stock program

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a visionary RVP - AI Natives to lead and scale our AI Native business unit. You will guide a high-performing team selling Elastic's enterprise search, vector search, and generative AI platform to AI-native companies, and co-sell with ecosystem partners. This remote-friendly executive role emphasizes GTM, deal cycles, and C-suite engagement, with travel to partner events and customer sites. West of Texas location noted.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of quota overachievement in enterprise software sales.
• Experience selling into AI-native or cloud and SaaS ecosystems.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision making.
• Experience with MEDDPICC or similar sales methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of account executives and alliance managers to sell into AI-native companies.
• Develop and execute direct and co-sell GTM strategies with key AI ecosystem partners.
• Manage pipeline, forecasting, and deal execution to hit revenue targets.
• Engage C-suite and build long-term partner alliances across product and GTM.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Solutions Architecture to guide roadmap and PoC initiatives.

Skills

SaaS Sales Leadership

AI/Search Fluency

Ecosystem Partnerships

Operational Discipline

Entrepreneurial Mindset

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 is seeking a visionary RVP - AI Natives to lead, scale, and accelerate the growth of our specialized AI Native business unit. In this strategic executive role, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for a dual motion: selling Elastic's enterprise Search, vector search, and generative AI platform directly to digital-native AI companies (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Cohere), and co-building/co-selling strategic sell-with partnerships with these ecosystems. If you are an accomplished software sales leader with a proven track record of scaling high-performing enterprise teams, navigating complex partner ecosystems, and possessing a deep passion for AI infrastructure, we want you to shape the future of AI Search with us.

Location: West of Texas

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead and Coach Teams: Manage, mentor, and coach a team of specialized Account Executives and Strategic Alliance Managers to successfully sell into AI-native organizations and execute high-impact sell-with motions. Actively foster an environment of teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement while traveling regularly to provide hands-on executive support.
• Drive GTM & Sell-With Strategy: Build, execute, and own a dual-track GTM strategy: direct enterprise expansion into AI-native companies and strategic sell-with co-sell motions with major AI foundation model providers and platforms. Formulate account coverage, incentive alignment, pipeline generation programs, and customer segmentation tailored to this hyper-growth market segment.
• Quota Achievement & Operational Excellence: Consistently meet or exceed revenue and co-sell targets. Lead by example using rigorous pipeline management, structured forecasting, and deal execution frameworks. Travel regularly to engage directly in deal structuring, co-sell strategy, and executive closures.
• Engage C-Suite and Partner Ecosystems: Actively engage in strategic deal cycles to establish trusted-advisor relationships at the CxO, Founder, and VP level within top-tier AI companies. Build strategic, long-term alliances with partner management across product, business development, and go-to-market teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Elastic's global executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Solutions Architecture teams. Provide real-time market telemetry from leading AI innovators to influence Elastic's AI roadmap, while ensuring seamless joint PoC executions and strategic co-marketing initiatives.

What You Bring:

• SaaS & Enterprise Sales Leadership: Proven track record leading high-performing software sales teams, with a documented history of quota overachievement in dynamic, high-growth, or strategic alliance environments.
• AI & Search Domain Fluency: Deep understanding of the modern AI tech stack, including vector databases, hybrid search infrastructure, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and generative AI platforms.
• Ecosystem & Sell-With Expertise: Demonstrated experience building strategic co-sell or sell-with partnerships alongside major cloud, AI, or SaaS ecosystem leaders.
• Operational Discipline: Solid analytical capability and data-driven decision-making. Expertise in applying structured methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC) to complex direct and joint sales cycles.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: The resilience, agility, and initiative-taking attitude required to pioneer a hyper-growth, rapidly evolving vertical and build new market playbooks from scratch.

Bonus Points:

• Prior experience selling directly to or partnering closely with premier AI foundation model companies (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity).
• Familiarity with open-source software, developer-centric infrastructure GTM strategies, and product-led growth (PLG) dynamics.

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.

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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 60/40 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:

$170,000-$268,800 USD

The typical starting Target Variable range for this role is:

$113,200-$179,100 USD

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

$283,200-$447,900 USD

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