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 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!

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.

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. 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.

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Enterprise Account Executive, Malaysia

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