What Is The Role
Elastic, the Search AI company, is looking for a high-energy Enterprise Account Executive to drive net-new revenue and expansion within strategic Enterprise accounts for Malaysia.
You'll be the owner of a defined territory where you'll build your own pipeline, tell the Elastic Search AI story, and close complex, 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 in the Enterprise segment.
What You Will Be Doing
- Drive Adoption: Fuel the adoption of Elastic's AI-powered search solutions, Observability and Security solutions within (new) Enterprise accounts while deepening engagement with existing ones.
- Be a Trusted Advisor: Assist users and customers in harnessing the full power of search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
- 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.
- Solve Complex Problems: Move beyond simple transactions to address the intricate data challenges our customers face.
- Champion Open Source: Articulate the value of our advanced commercial features while advocating for our Open-Source offerings.
- Identify New Use Cases: Showcase how Elastic's solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
- Strategic Planning: Develop comprehensive business plans leveraging community, customer, and partner ecosystems to drive significant territory growth.
- Navigate Sales Cycles: Proactively identify new opportunities and successfully manage complex sales cycles.
- Deep discovery qualification: Uncover pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks like MEDDPICC so you chase only the highest-confidence deals.
- 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
- The Right Blend: A combination of high-level technical curiosity and the grit of a value-based seller
- Proven Track Record: Success in SaaS subscription sales in Enterprise accounts, evidenced by overachievement.
- Value Storytelling: The ability to craft tailored narratives that link Elastic's technical capabilities (Search, Observability, Security) to measurable business outcomes like revenue gain or risk mitigation is critical.
- Executive negotiation & closing: Lead high-stakes contract and pricing discussions
- Technical & cloud fluency: Comfortable discussing a broad range of technical topics including security, observability, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
- Relationship Building: Adept at establishing credibility with both technical developers and executive leadership.
- Mutual deal strategy & forecast accuracy: Consistent, predictable and accurate sales forecasting skills. Collaborate with customers to build formal close plans and keep your CRM up to date.
- Ability to create alignment across teams to accelerate deals
- AI Mentality: Use new technologies for performance advantage and deal structuring
- Open-Source Appreciation: Enthusiasm for the Open-Source model and the community relying on our solutions.
- English and Local native language, Bahasa will be required for this role due to the focus market
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!
