Strategic Account Executive - AI Natives - West

September 15, 2026

Elastic, 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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role: Elastic is building a dedicated AI Native Accounts organization focused on partnering with the world's most innovative AI companies. We are seeking an extraordinary Strategic Account Executive to help define how the next generation of AI companies build, scale, and innovate using the Elastic Search AI Platform. This is one of the most strategic individual contributor roles at Elastic. Rather than managing a broad territory, you will own a highly selective portfolio of globally strategic AI-native customers. You will work directly with executive and technical leaders to help solve some of the industry's most complex AI, search, and data challenges while accelerating adoption of the Elastic Search AI Platform. Success in this role extends well beyond revenue attainment. You will serve as a trusted advisor, develop long-term executive relationships, influence product strategy through customer insight, and play a meaningful role in one of Elastic's highest-priority growth initiatives. Location: Texas and West Organizational Scope Each Strategic Account Executive is responsible for a small number of globally strategic AI-native customers. Rather than broad geographic coverage, this organization is intentionally designed around depth of engagement, executive relationships, technical credibility, and long-term strategic partnerships. This role works closely with Solutions Architecture, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, Strategic Alliances, and Executive Leadership to deliver extraordinary customer outcomes while helping shape Elastic's leadership in the AI ecosystem. What You Will Be Doing: <ul><li>Own Strategic Customer Relationships: Develop trusted relationships with founders, CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, AI research leaders, engineering executives, and senior technical stakeholders across a focused portfolio of AI-native organizations. Become a strategic advisor by understanding each customer's business priorities, AI initiatives, and long-term technology strategy.</li><li>Drive Complex Enterprise Sales Cycles: Lead sophisticated enterprise sales opportunities from discovery through executive alignment, commercial negotiation, procurement, and successful adoption. Navigate complex buying environments while creating alignment across technical, business, and executive stakeholders.</li><li>Develop Executive Account Strategies: Build comprehensive account plans that identify executive sponsors, technical champions, whitespace opportunities, competitive positioning, ecosystem partners, and long-term expansion strategies designed to maximize customer success and business growth.</li><li>Partner Across the AI Ecosystem: Collaborate with cloud providers, hyperscalers, AI platform companies, strategic technology partners, and systems integrators to develop scalable sell-with strategies that accelerate customer adoption and strengthen Elastic's position within the AI ecosystem.</li><li>Influence Product Strategy: Serve as the voice of the customer by partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering. Deliver meaningful market intelligence and customer feedback that helps shape the future of the Elastic Search AI Platform.</li><li>Deliver Predictable Business Results: Consistently achieve and exceed revenue objectives through disciplined account planning, pipeline management, accurate forecasting, opportunity inspection, and operational excellence. </li></ul>What You Bring: <ul><li>Enterprise Sales Excellence: A proven track record of consistently exceeding quota while managing complex enterprise software sales cycles involving executive stakeholders, technical decision-makers, and global organizations.</li><li>AI & Modern Infrastructure Expertise: Strong understanding of today's AI landscape, including large language models (LLMs), AI infrastructure, developer platforms, cloud-native architectures, modern data platforms, and enterprise AI adoption. Comfortable engaging in strategic technical conversations with engineering and AI leaders.</li><li>Executive Presence: Demonstrated success building trusted relationships with founders, C-level executives, engineering leaders, and technical decision-makers. Skilled at influencing strategic business outcomes through executive engagement and value-based selling.</li><li>Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop long-term account strategies, identify growth opportunities, navigate complex organizations, and execute against multi-year customer plans.</li><li>Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Strategic Alliances to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.</li><li>Operational Excellence: Highly disciplined with expertise in account planning, forecasting, pipeline management, executive inspection, and structured sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC. </li></ul>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, 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. <ul><li>Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary</li><li>Health coverage for you and your family in many locations</li><li>Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles</li><li>Generous number of vacation days each year</li><li>Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service</li><li>Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love</li><li>Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave </li></ul>Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic 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 candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other countries’ export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic. Please see here for our Privacy Statement. Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE). On-Target Earnings (OTE) are based on a 50/50 pay mix (base salary / target variable). The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is listed below. This range represents the lowest to highest OTE 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 range may be modified in the future. 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. 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: $113,300—$179,200 USD The typical starting Target Variable range for this role is: $113,200—$179,100 USD The typical starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is: $226,500—$358,300 USD

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