As a 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 solve 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 focused on excellence; 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 Telecom accounts and account managers in your assigned territory.
Uncovering new use cases within Cyber Security, AIops and Search within your 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 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.
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 Elastic.

What You Bring Along:

A track record of success in a technical presales’ role-- enough experience selling and implementing technology to earn your customer’s trust.
telecom specialisation as a vertical. This is an absolute MUST to become successful in this job
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.
A willingness to travel 25%-30% within region, as well as occasionally internationally.
Native or fluent in German language and also fluency in English as mandatory requirement.