Job Description
The Opportunity
We are looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to own a brand-new territory: AI-native companies across Latin America. This is not a managed-account role. This is a hunter position at the start of something real.The groundwork is laid. The timing is now.
This is the first dedicated AE position for AI-native accounts in Latin America. The segment is real, the pipeline is identified, and the market timing is exceptional. Elastic is not a challenger here. We are the Search AI company, trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 500 — and we are just starting to go deep in this segment. If you want to own a territory from the ground up, with the backing of a global platform and the energy of a new market, this is it.
Latin America is generating its first wave of genuinely AI-native companies and these companies need what Elastic does best: Search AI at scale, enterprise-grade Security, and Observability that keeps up with their growth. And right now, no one at Elastic is dedicated to them. That changes with this hire.
What You Will Do
- Build and own a regional territory focused on AI-native companies across Latin America
- Sell Elastic's Search AI Platform across three pillars: Search AI, Security (SIEM/XDR), and Observability
- Engage CTO, CISO, and VP Engineering at high-growth AI-native companies across the region
- Activate and develop strategic partnerships as regional channel multipliers
- Own Your Territory & Build Pipeline: Develop and execute a proactive outbound strategy across entities in São Paulo, leveraging community, customer, and partner ecosystems to generate ≥ 50% of your booked opportunities.
- Deep Discovery & Qualification: Uncover business pains, business impact, budgets, and decision criteria using disciplined frameworks like MEDDPICC to manage high-confidence pipeline.
- Value Storytelling & Demos: Deliver tailored narratives and demonstrations that map Elastic’s Search AI, Observability, and Security capabilities to core priorities and digital transformation.
- Mutual Deal Strategy & Forecast Accuracy: Collaborate with stakeholders to construct formal close plans, managing sales cycles and drive predictable sales execution by maintaining 90%+ forecast accuracy within +/- 10%.
- Executive Negotiation & Closing: Guide complex procurement processes, structuring give/get trades and securing multi-year consumption and project commitments.
- Complex Project Execution: Drive high-value, complex projects into net-new logos while expanding Elastic usage across our current installed base.
- Domain & Cloud Acumen: Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern enterprise data architectures.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work hand-in-glove with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and strategic Channel Partners (distributors/integrators) to accelerate deals and deliver measurable customer outcomes.
What You Will Bring
- 5–8 years of enterprise SaaS or cloud sales, consistently above quota
- Experience leading AI, data, or cybersecurity platforms
- Proven hunter: you build your own pipeline and thrive opening new accounts
- Experience engaging CTO and technical leadership at high-growth tech companies
- Comfortable operating across multiple countries and time zones
- Portuguese and/or Spanish (native) + English (professional)
- Proven SaaS Success: 5+ years of experience closing complex Enterprise deals, consistently overachieving quotas within SaaS, cloud, or consumption-based environments.
- Installed Base & Net-New Growth: Demonstrated track record of selling complex projects into net-new logos as well as expanding within existing accounts.
- Territory Acumen in São Paulo: Deep familiarity navigating procurement processes, budget cycles, RFIs/RFPs, and decision-making dynamics within entities in São Paulo.
- Ecosystem & Technical Fluency: Solid understanding of enterprise software ecosystems, including Enterprise Search, Logging, Security (SIEM/XDR), Observability (APM/metrics), Vector/AI Search, and Cloud platforms.
- Expert Qualification & MEDDPICC Skills: Mastery in applying MEDDPICC or equivalent frameworks to navigate multi-stakeholder deal cycles.
- Executive & Developer Credibility: Ability to build strong relationships across technical teams, developers, and executive decision-makers.
- Open Source Model Appreciation: Genuine appreciation for the Open Source go-to-market model and the developer/user community that relies on Elastic solutions daily.
- Languages: Native/Fluent in Portuguese; Full Professional Proficiency in English and Spanish.
- Must be located in São Paulo, Brazil
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