Inside Account Executive (German speaking)
Drive net-new revenue and expansion as an Inside Account Executive at Elastic, focusing on the Search AI platform.
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Elastic's Search AI Platform enables real-time data search and insights.
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Inside Account Executive at Elastic focuses on driving revenue growth within a designated territory by building a sales pipeline and closing multi-stakeholder deals. This role requires proficiency in SaaS sales, particularly in a consumption-based model, along with skills in discovery, qualification, and negotiation. Ideal candidates have a strong sales background, are fluent in German and English, and possess a collaborative mindset. Elastic's emphasis on cross-functional teamwork and open-source values adds a unique dimension to the role.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday on Joblaze — tracked directly from Elastic's career page.
- Elastic has 167 other open roles including Sales Development Representative (Dutch speaker), Corporate and Securities Counsel, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Serverless.
- 848 active SaaS roles on Joblaze right now.
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- 367 active Sales roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- Is the Inside Account Executive (German speaking) role remote?
- Yes — Elastic lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Inside Account Executive (German speaking) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Sales, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Elastic targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Inside Account Executive (German speaking) role at Elastic.
From the original posting
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, the Search AI company, is looking for a high-energy Inside Account Executive to drive net-new revenue and expansion within the territory. You’ll be the owner of a defined territory where you’ll build your own pipeline, tell the Elastic Search AI story, and close, multi-stakeholder deals in a consumption-based model. This role sits at the intersection of sales execution, technical fluency, and cross-functional collaboration—and is critical to our growth.
What You Will Be Doing
- Be responsible for your territory & build pipeline: Develop and implement a proactive outbound cadence (email, call, social)
- Deep discovery & qualification: Uncover pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks like MEDDPICC.
- Value storytelling & demos: Craft and deliver tailored narratives and live demos that map Elastic’s Search, Observability, and Security capabilities to measurable business outcomes.
- Mutual deal strategy & forecast accuracy: Collaborate with customers to build formal close plans and keep your CRM up-to-date
- Negotiation & closing: Lead high-stakes contract and pricing discussions—defend your value, structure give/get trades, and land multi-year consumption commitments.
- Domain & cloud acumen: Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
- Cross-functional partnership: Work hand-in-glove with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps to accelerate deals and drive exceptional customer outcomes.
What You Bring
- Proven SaaS quota‐carrying success: 3+ years closing deals, consistently overachieving targets in a consumption-based or usage-model environment.
- Discovery & qualification skills: Demonstrated ability to apply MEDDPICC or equivalent frameworks to drive focused pipeline and eliminate low-probability deals.
- Compelling value storytellers: Track record of delivering presentations and demos that tie product capabilities to real euros saved, revenue gained, or risk mitigated.
- Well honed negotiation skills.
- Collaborative mentality & coach-ability: A learner who partners with internal teams, incorporates feedback, and embodies Elastic’s values of community.
- Open Source passion: Genuine appreciation for open-source communities and the Elastic model—bonus if you’ve sold or advocated in an OSS context.
- Fluent in German and English.
Bonus Points
- Prior experience at an open-source or developer‐centric infrastructure company.
- Familiarity with observability (logs, metrics, traces) or security analytics (SIEM/XDR) use cases.
If you’re driven to build your own pipeline, master complex deal cycles, and help customers unlock the power of Search AI, we’d love to talk.
Apply today!
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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
- 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
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