Sr. Customer Architect

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Sr Customer Architect to act as a trusted technical advisor, crafting Technical Success Plans tailored to customer goals and metrics. You will drive successful adoption of Elastic solutions, align technical objectives with business outcomes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to grow ARR through expanded usage and value.

You will lead technical discussions, define success criteria, and ensure customers achieve desired outcomes while fostering ongoing relationships

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• Validated experience in a similar role (Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or Pre-sales Engineer) with hands-on Elastic solutions.
• Experience with Elastic solutions (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) or Elastic stack and aligning them with business goals is a plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong social skills and ability to build relationships with customers and teams.
• Demonstrated problem-solving with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.
• Ability to lead multiple projects and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure customers derive significant value, reduce technical frictions, and promote uptake of Elastic solutions to grow ARR.
• Collaborate with Account Exec and Solutions Architect for ongoing technical coverage while pursuing new deals.
• Define the technical success plan for each customer to achieve business objectives.
• Manage the customer journey from onboarding to adoption, driving ongoing consumption of Elastic solutions.
• Articulate the value proposition of Elastic solutions and align with customer goals.
• Identify and remove technical frictions to smooth adoption and implementation.
• Coordinate with support to ensure optimized resolution and adoption curve.
• Work with Service Team to deliver personalized, frictionless solutions.
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements for Elastic solutions.
• Find opportunities for expansion for ARR growth, with account teams taking over when ready.
• Foster ongoing customer relationships to increase utilization and ARR.

Skills

Communication

Presentation

Relationship-building

Problem-solving

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Elastic solutions

Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

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:

As a Sr Customer Architect, you will be the Trusted Technical Advisor, working in tandem with the customer and complementary groups like Field and Services Teams to ensure that Elastic solutions are exceeding customer's expectations. Your technical expertise, eye for business, and ability to deliver value will accelerate and improve the customer experience leading to customer continued satisfaction and expansion within the elastic portfolio.

In your role, a crucial part of your responsibility is defining and communicating the technical success criteria for our customers. This involves crafting detailed Technical Success Plans tailored to the specific customers goals and critical metrics.

The Technical Success Plans act as a roadmap, outlining the optimal consumption and deployment of Elastic solutions in the customer's environment. They detail the necessary steps for implementation, highlight achievements for successful consumption or expansion, and provide and effectiveness aligned to the customer's business goals. By actioning this plan, you will be seen as the trusted advisor, guiding the customer towards achieving their desired outcomes, thereby ensuring their success and satisfaction.

From providing technical guidance and sharing standard methodologies to aligning technical objectives with the customers' business goals, your work is instrumental in facilitating smooth adoption, sustained usage, and increased consumption of our solutions. This hands‑on role requires you to be proactive, with a keen understanding of our customers' technical landscape and a commitment to making their journey with Elastic solutions successful and valuable.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Your chief aim will be to ensure the customer derives significant value, eliminate technical frictions, and propel the uptake and application of Elastic solutions, with the ultimate goal of growing annual recurring revenue (ARR).
• Collaborate closely with the account team, including the Account Executive and the Solutions Architect (Pre‑sales engineer), to provide ongoing technical coverage and support, while the account team focuses on identifying new deals.
• Define the technical success plan for each customer, outlining the optimal use of Elastic solutions to achieve their business objectives.
• Ensure a successful technical customer journey, from onboarding to adoption, while continuously driving the consumption of Elastic solutions.
• Understand and articulate the value proposition of Elastic solutions and align them with the customer's business goals.
• Work closely with customers to identify and eliminate technical frictions, promoting a smoother adoption and implementation of Elastic solutions.
• Liaise between customers and support, as necessary, to ensure an optimized support resolution experience smoothing the adoption curve for the customer.
• As a hands‑on technical authority, collaborate with the Service Team to deliver personalized, frictionless solutions that meet the unique needs of each customer.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the customer's business needs and translate these into technical requirements for Elastic solutions.
• Find opportunities for expansion, at which point the account team takes over to expand the subscription, aiming to grow annual recurring revenue (ARR).
• Foster ongoing customer relationships, ensuring that customers continue to increase their utilization of Elastic solutions, further driving ARR.
• Continuously review and assess customer consumption of Elastic solutions, proactively suggesting upgrades and enhancements that increase value and drive further consumption.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field highly preferred.
• Validated experience in a similar role such as Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or Pre‑sales Engineer, with hands‑on experience with Elastic solutions or equivalent technologies.
• Experienced with one or more Elastic solutions (Observability, Security, Enterprise Search) or the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and how to align them with business objectives is a plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong social skills, with the ability to establish relationships with customers and team members.
• Demonstrated problem‑solving skills, with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.
• Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.

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. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary 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 ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary 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:

$153,500-$242,900 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$153,500-$242,900 USD