Senior Solution Architect

Description

The company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role

Are you looking to make a real impact and play a meaningful role in the growth of our company?

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

Why the company and this Team? “Once I started, I was blown away to realize, what was always so obvious, everything is search. Anything you do with data involves search, every app needs search, even analytics are about search. Daily I am blown away with the types of things our users and customers are doing with search.” Director of Product, the company. “We question the status quo, debate the best ways to accomplish our goals and hold ourselves and our teams to the highest standards of performance. We take pride in our ability to understand our customers needs and make recommendations that are based on extensive global experience across multiple use cases. We learn from our mistakes and losses and celebrate our successes with an eye towards constant improvement. Join this team if you are up for a compassionate, understanding and fair environment where you can really grow into the next phase of your career.” VP WW Solution Architecture, the company

What You Will Be Doing

Serving as the technical point of contact for your accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.

Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and articulating how our offerings address their needs.

Creating 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 the company 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 the company products, solutions and services.

Onboarding, educating and enabling our partners, and supporting them in sales cycles.

Creating 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 enhancements 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 the company.

What You Bring

A track record of success in a technical presales role within enterprise accounts -- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.

A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.

A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

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. Have you more than once convinced a team you worked for, of an idea, technology, or architectural pattern?

The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.

Fluency in German is essential.

A willingness to travel 30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.

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Additional 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, the company 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

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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. The company is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email the company's site . We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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