Elastic - Principal Competitive Intelligence
Requirements
• Understanding of the Search market, key players, technologies and trends. • Proven success in roles such as sales engineering, technical marketing, or competitive analysis, within the search industry. • Strong technical and analytical skills to assess competitive solutions, features and strategies and propose effective responses. • Experience translating technical features into compelling business value for diverse audiences. • Ability to build relationships and work effectively with teams across the company, including sales, marketing, engineering, and leadership. • Excellent communication skills—verbal, written, and visual—to share competitive insights and strategies effectively. • Background in engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience is helpful but not required. • 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Responsibilities
• Build and implement an effective competitive intelligence program for Search, including in-depth analysis of competitors' products, services, pricing, packaging, marketing strategies and financial performance. • Create clear, compelling, fact-based internal and external enablement materials – battlecards, bulletins, training, comparisons for blogs/websites – that tell the story behind Elastic product and technology differentiation, creating sales and solution engineering confidence. • Track, analyze, and communicate competitive developments, providing timely responses to market changes and competitor actions. • Develop and deliver compelling proof points and external blogs and web pages to communicate competitive differentiation. • Collaborate on the Win/Loss program, participating in W/L interviews and analyzing data to advise sales strategies and product decisions. • Maintain a deep understanding of the search market, including market trends, competitive dynamics and SWOT evaluations. • Effectively collaborate with product marketing, product management, and sales to craft competitive positioning strategies for new products and features. • Participate in industry events to monitor trends and advise on competitive shifts.
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