Territory Account Executive, Elastic
NYC
$131.1-207.3k
OTE
$65.6-103.7k
BASE
OTE includes base salary / target variable
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$131.1-207.3k
OTE
$65.6-103.7k
BASE
OTE includes base salary / target variable
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- 2-3 years sales experience in the software industry preferred
- A track record of success in selling SaaS subscriptions leveraging a sales methodology that has led you to excel in growing and managing current/net new customers and new use cases
- Ability and have demonstrated consistent success in forecasting weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadence
- Passion for building new customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results
- Technologically adept and business acumen focused with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills
- This role will preferably be based out of Austin, Texas covering accounts across the United States
Desirable
- If you’re driven to build your own pipeline, master complex deal cycles, and help customers unlock the power of Search AI, we’d love to talk. Apply today!
What the job involves
- Our Territory Account Executives are individual contributors, focused on building new business and growing the Elastic footprint within a defined set of accounts based on a spend profile
- These accounts have tremendous potential and will need an individual focused on ensuring our customers are successfully leveraging Elastic cloud solutions across their organization
- Are you ready to leverage your creativity and innovation to help build and grow this exciting set of accounts?
- If so, we’d love to hear from you!
- Building awareness and driving demand for Elastic solutions within this set of accounts, by developing and executing a territory strategy/partner plan to understand and grow these accounts
- Serving as an evangelist of our technology leading with our new innovative offering such as GenAI, Vector Search, Security, and Observability
- Identify and qualify new opportunities within existing accounts by leveraging your own creativity, inbound lead flow, personal prospecting efforts, contacts, and partners
- Work cross-functionally with our sales development, marketing, partner, product and customer service teams to deliver outstanding results
- Working thoughtfully with customers to identify new business opportunities, managing through the sales cycle and closing complex transactions
- Building a robust business plan by utilizing tools like Salesforce, Clari, Outreach and ZoomInfo
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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