[Hiring] Partner Solutions Architect @Elastic

Role Description

The Partner Solutions Architect is a high-priority role that will have a sizable, immediate impact on Elastic and our entire partner ecosystem. In this role, you will be responsible for the technical management, activation, and enablement of our partner relationships.

What Will You Be Doing

• Acting as a strategic technical leader in the field - you are a self-starter. You lead the lifecycle of agreements from business case, planning and governance, technical architecture, solution build, business modeling, and ensure business case is delivered to the end customer through partners.
• Translating technical capabilities into business benefits - you are instrumental in showing how Elastic’s offerings can be tailored to address the specific needs of the partner’s customer base, thereby making the solutions more relatable and easier to sell. Support partners in developing proactive proposals in key accounts for growing Elastic Cloud with partners.
• Architecting custom solutions - By co-creating tailored solutions that integrate Elastic’s technology within the partner’s offerings or customer environments, Partner Solution Architects ensure that partners are not just enabled but are fully equipped to solve unique customer challenges, which in turn, stimulates active selling.
• Co-Leading design wins - you work collaboratively on design wins, meaning they assist in developing the technical blueprint for industry-specific solutions that partners can use in their go-to-market strategies, effectively boosting activation.
• Driving technical advocacy and earning trust - you foster a deeper technical rapport with the partner, aiding their ability to comprehend and advocate for Elastic solutions, which is a key component for partner activation. Build trusted relationships with senior technical individuals.
• Supporting co-marketing efforts - you provide the technical backbone to marketing campaigns, ensuring that the partner’s messaging accurately reflects the capabilities and benefits of Elastic’s offerings, which is important for an effective activation campaign.
• Authoring customer-facing publications - you stay on top of market trends around cloud and industry best practices, building deep relationships with technical leaders inside and outside of the company, contributing to publications, white papers, blogs, and sales collateral.
• Build community to drive growth - develop a focused and structured network of Solutions Architects who can pinpoint opportunities based on the synergies between Elastic and partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies.
• 5+ years of experience working with multinational customers in support of technology sales.
• Previous PreSales experience within the software sector.
• An understanding of AI and semantic search and vector technologies, with a focus on RAG, vector search, and NLP.
• Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS, Google Cloud or MSFT Azure.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adept at getting things done in an environment with ambiguity but also lots of opportunity.
• A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, solve a problem, or outpace competitors.
• Ability to inspire teams to work on not just what’s urgent, but what’s most relevant.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.

Requirements

• Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE).
• The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is:
• $153,500 — $242,900 USD
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.