Public Sector Account Executive (Education)

What Is The Role

Elastic, the Search AI 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

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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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