Elastic Sales Team Lead Financial Services 

United Kingdom, England, London 

775901648

• The Sector Director is responsible for the strategic ownership and direction of their particular vertical
• The Sector Director will work with their vertical’s Building awareness and driving demand for Elastic solutions within the FSI sector, by helping users and customers derive value from a range of use cases.
• Serving as an evangelist for our Open Source offerings while communicating and demonstrating the capabilities of our commercial features to key stakeholders.
• Uncovering new and diverse use cases to enable our users to derive maximum value.
• Collaborating across Elastic business functions to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Working thoughtfully with customers within the intelligence community to identify new business opportunities, manage the sales cycle and close complex transactions.
• Building a robust business through developing community, customer and partner ecosystems to achieve significant Elastic growth.
• Strategising with Elastic Leadership on the growth, direction and development of the UK Intelligence business.

What You Bring With You:

• A deep knowledge of the UK FSI vertical and the current issues and challenges it faces from a technology perspective.
• An individual with a credible reputation in the sector. Able to gain access to, and have the trust of Senior Leaders up to C-level.
• Have the gravitas and ability to empathise and influence at the highest level while remaining connected to the mission.
• A successful commercial track record of growth in a technology environment.
• Knowledge of open-source technology platforms would be an advantage.
• An individual with the hunger and ambition to succeed not just in this role for Elastic but potentially to grow into a role overseeing all UK secure government markets.
• An individual who can grow, develop and lead a successful team as a larger business unit evolves.

Bonus Points

• Previous experience selling in an Open Source model