[Hiring] Principal Solutions Architect @Elastic

Role Description

As a Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to our sales team, customers, partners and community. You will understand and tackle our customer’s business issues with the Elastic Stack, engage the regional Elastic community through events and programs, and enable sales through our Partners. A successful SA at Elastic will be passionate about perfection; taking the initiative to improve both themselves and the team through continuous learning and questioning the status quo.

What You Will Be Doing

• Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned enterprise territory.
• Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.
• Crafting and owning value based relationships at all levels in customer organizations.
• Actively participating in all phases of planning and execution for your territory, from initial discovery to the technical win.
• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the Elastic products and solutions to demonstrate the value of our offerings in sales meetings, and at events such as meetups and conferences.
• Advising the sales team on effective ways of positioning Elastic products, solutions and services.
• Onboarding, educating and enabling our partners, and supporting them in sales cycles.
• Crafting collateral, contributing to programs and collaborating with other Elasticians to meet individual client needs.
• Being the voice of the customer and community to communicate needs, gaps, and improvements to our engineering and leadership teams.
• Deepening both your sales and technical skills through self driven education while taking advantage of all the professional development opportunities provided by Elastic.

Qualifications

• A track record of success in a technical presales role-- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.
• A proven track record to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
• Extensive experience with SIEM platforms and vendor solutions in enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of AI and its impact on SIEM and Analytics solutions.
• Strong understanding of SOC workflows, processes, and operational challenges.
• Knowledge of a wide range of security solutions, the type of data they produce and build content to satisfy Use Case Requirements.
• A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner.
• A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors.
• An ability to influence.
• The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.
• A willingness to travel 30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.