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Elastic’s Professional Services team works across all of our technologies and systems to deliver solutions for our customers. Our Services Sales Partner is crucial to the growth of our Services business and plays an essential role in growing our practice. You will have ownership of our customer's Services journey from pre-sales to launch while building trusted customer relationships, including C-level sponsors.

The Services Sales Partner must be a strategic problem solver with exceptional enterprise, commercial, and cross-functional skills, demonstrate high energy and have strong sales management experience. The Services Sales Partner is responsible for earning the right to be a trusted advisor to the customer, with the primary goal of helping customers generate significant business value from their Elastic investment. This individual will be expected to understand and lead our customers throughout their lifecycle, driving adoption through sales activity for new and existing customers. This will include pipeline generation, delivering sales presentations to C-level clients, negotiating commercials and contracts, and overseeing delivery. Under Elastic’s co-sell model, you will collaborate deeply with our Sales and Customer Success teams. The primary measurement of success for this role will be YOY growth in overall services bookings and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Complete Elastic training and become an authority in our consulting methodologies and practices
• Apply industry expertise and business insight to understand a customer's motivation, business drivers, strategic goals and objectives, and desired business outcomes
• Engage customers, especially C-Level, using a consultative selling approach that positions Elastic and yourself as a long-term trusted advisor relationship
• Create a compelling vision and clearly communicate our progressive solutions with the goal of generating significant success and business value from a customer's investment in the Elastic Stack
• dAchieve growth and bookings targets, ensure organizational health, and drive customer satisfaction
• Develop and lead a territory plan and a personalized account plan for each customer, which aligns with their business goals. 
• Forecast accurately and timely, build a pipeline, and progress opportunities to deliver YOY growth
• Form a strong relationship with the Sales, Customer Success organization, and regional Alliances/Partner organizations that are instrumental to success. You should be able to operate in a co-sell model, collaborate, and establish relationships
• Be an integral part of hiring and mentoring new Services Sales Partners
• Contribute to enhancing our delivery methodology, services practice, and industry POV's

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• 10+ years of consultative sales experience with a demonstrated record of consistently exceeding quota
• Of which, 5+ years experience selling and/or delivering professional services for a strategic consulting firm, large scale system integrator, or professional services unit within a software company
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain C-level relationships where you are recognized as a trusted advisor
• Experience growing accounts with large and complex pursuits ($M+)
• Highly collaborative and excels in a complex, matrixed environment
• Experience in creating outstanding responses to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFP
• Project/account management experience
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment

Leadership Qualities:

• PASSION: Passionate about Customer Success
• BEGINNERS MIND: Always learning, approaches each interaction with an open mind, a great listener, and hands-on
• THOUGHT LEADER: Strong point of view and executive presence. Confident, but not arrogant, a great storyteller
• URGENCY: Ability to move fast and drive business value and results
• TEAM PLAYER: A team player that everyone enjoys working with and has a generous heart
• TRUST: Trust the company’s core values
• ADAPTABLE: Excels in high levels of uncertain

 

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:$135,700—$214,700 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:$163,100—$258,100 USDAdditional 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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• 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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