Senior Value Engineer

Elastic

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About The Position

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
Are you looking to make a real impact and play a meaningful role in the growth of our company?
Elastic is seeking a Value Engineer to support our US territories, located on the east coast.
Now is an exciting time to join Elastic; you'll be joining at a pivotal stage where your expertise will be instrumental in building the foundations for our future success with our strategic clients. Your role is crucial in ensuring our clients unlock the full business impacts of Elastic, driving value and fostering long-term partnerships.
We’re seeking individuals who thrive in dynamic environments, have a passion for customer excellence, delivering exceptional outcomes, and are ready to collaborate with a team of high-performing sales professionals. If you have experience working as a Value Engineer, Management Consultant, or a related customer facing role, we would love to hear from you!

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in value engineering, management consulting, solution architecture, or a related customer-facing role within the software or consulting industries.
• Expert knowledge and experience in change process management, search, observability, and security technologies preferred
• Advanced knowledge and experience in value-based-selling methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in building and briefing business cases to executives.
• Expertise in identifying and prioritizing use cases, implementing improvement measures and becoming a change agent for Elastic customers by establishing a value delivery model.
• Ability to project manage across multiple workstreams, including defining scope, expectations, timelines and delivery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to act decisively with ambiguous guidance and circumstances
• Ability to travel to meet clients is required (approximately 1x/month)

Nice To Haves

• New York City or Arlington, VA area and open to occasional in-office collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with account teams to identify and execute value delivery strategies for key accounts
• Engage with stakeholders to identify, understand, and quantify their unique business challenges. Translate Elastic’s value proposition and technical capabilities into clear economic benefits aligned with their corporate goals.
• Lead business value reviews / business cases: Effectively communicate the realized value and potential economic benefits of new opportunities
• Conduct thorough analysis of customer workflows and processes, identifying opportunities for optimization and increased efficiency
• Create and deliver boardroom-quality, executive documents
• Work collaboratively with product and engineering teams to tailor solutions to meet the specific needs of Elastic’s customers
• Provide guidance on best practices and innovative approaches to maximize the value of Elastic solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert on our solutions with our customers, remaining informed about industry trends and advancements.
• Conduct training and workshops with Elastic teammates to increase the quality of their discovery and their understanding of business value & customer excellence.
• Help build the future of the value engineering practice at Elastic: contribute to the development of best practices and tools for an enhanced value based selling adoption.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed