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# Regional Vice President – UK Defence & National Security at Elastic

- **Company:** Elastic
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs?gh_jid=8318182&gh_jid=8318182

## Job description

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.

Elastic, the Search AI company, is looking for a NEW high-energy Regional Vice President to manage the Sales function across the UK Defence, Intelligence, and National Security sectors. This position offers a unique opportunity to manage and shape Elastic’s strategy for this critical public sector vertical, including new logo acquisition across the Ministry of Defence (MoD), prime contractors, and the wider Intelligence Community. You will be responsible for 1st Line Leadership across the sector—establishing a scalable, repeatable public sector sales motion and unlocking growth in one of Elastic’s most mission-critical segments. This role will report into the Global Vice President for Public Sector sales.

## What You Will Be Doing

- Manage and grow a team of Accomplished Account Executives dedicated to the UK Defence and National Security markets.
- Build and execute a winning sales strategy tailored to the unique procurement frameworks, security protocols, and mission objectives of the UK defence landscape.
- Foster a culture of energy, growth mindset, and high performance—motivating your team to achieve extraordinary results.
- Lead from the front: actively engage in strategic, high-value government deals, coach your team, and set the standard for excellence.
- Design and implement scalable sales processes, compliant capture management plans, and strategic account segmentation across defence commands and intelligence agencies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and specialized Public Sector Partner/SI teams to deliver mission-ready value and innovation to customers.
- Ensure quota attainment and drive Elastic’s enterprise sales methodology within complex, long-cycle public sector procurement routes (e.g., Crown Commercial Service frameworks).
- Champion teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement.
- Travel regularly across the UK to assist in deal creation, secure facility meetings, and closure, as well as providing strong leadership and support to your field team.
- Partner across Elastic’s leadership community to ensure a seamless, highly secure customer experience from onboarding to deployment.

## What You Bring

- Proven sales leader with extensive experience running high-performing enterprise SaaS or software sales teams within the UK Defence, MoD, or National Security verticals.
- Deep understanding of UK public sector procurement pathways, Crown Commercial Service (CCS) frameworks, and defense framework agreements.
- Experienced to lead in a complex, matrixed global technology organization.
- Growth mindset: resilient, curious, and motivated to build and scale a mission-critical sector.
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Experience designing and implementing structured sales strategies, capture plans, and territory management models for government accounts.
- Existing relationships with key UK defence primes, systems integrators, and crown stakeholders.
- Holding an active UK Security Clearance (SC or DV clearance), or eligibility and willingness to undergo the vetting process.

Bonus Points

- Prior experience at an open-source or developer‐centric infrastructure company.
- Familiarity with how observability (logs, metrics, traces) and security analytics (SIEM/XDR) protect critical national infrastructure (CNI) and support cyber defence operations.

## #LI-PM1

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.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf Poster; [Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision](https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf) Poster; https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppabw.pdf Poster and [Know Your Rights](https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights.pdf) (Poster)

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other countries’ export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

Please see [here](https://www.elastic.co/legal/applicant-privacy-statement) for our Privacy Statement.

## About Elastic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Elastic is the Search AI company that helps organizations leverage real-time data for search, observability, and security solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ESTC)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA (global distributed workforce)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Shay Banon (creator of Elasticsearch)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise software – Search, Observability, Security (SIEM, endpoint detection, cloud security)
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise, mid-market, and SMB; over 50% of the Fortune 500 rely on Elastic.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Help everyone find the answers they need in real time using all their data, at scale – powered by Search AI.

## Products & Services
- **Elasticsearch**: Distributed search and analytics engine (open source / SaaS / self-managed).
- **Kibana**: Visualization and exploration tool for Elasticsearch data.
- **Elastic Observability**: Unified observability for logs, metrics, APM, and infrastructure monitoring.
- **Elastic Security**: AI-driven SIEM, endpoint security, and threat intelligence.
- **Elastic Cloud**: Fully managed service on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- **Elastic Agent Builder**: Tool to build context-driven AI agents within Elasticsearch.
- **Elastic Workflows**: Native automation for security and observability workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded – market cap and financials available in SEC filings (not directly cited in provided sources).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue (FY2025) publicly reported at approximately $1.67 billion; strong recurring revenue growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Public company with institutional investors; cloud partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Azure; recognized by Gartner, Forrester, IDC as a Leader.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 50% of Fortune 500 customers; named a Leader in IDC Marketscape (General-Purpose Knowledge Discovery 2025) and Forrester Wave (Cognitive Search Q4 2025); 23% improvement in MTFR with GenAI Support Assistant; InfoSec team reclaims 75% time with Security AI Assistant.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open source foundation** (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) with strong community and ecosystem.
- **Unified platform** for search, observability, and security – reduces tool sprawl.
- **Distributed-by-design** architecture that scales horizontally.
- **AI-native** capabilities (Search AI, AI assistants, agent builder) integrated directly into the data platform.
- **Trusted by global enterprises** – robust security and compliance programs (Trust Center).

## Strategic Focus
- **Search AI**: Combining search with generative AI for better retrieval and answers.
- **Agentic AI**: Building reliable context-driven AI agents.
- **Cloud growth**: Expanding Elastic Cloud on major hyperscalers.
- **Security modernization**: AI-driven analytics to detect and respond faster.
- **Observability unification**: Breaking down silos between logs, metrics, and traces.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Distributed by design” – remote, hybrid, and in-person roles available. Emphasizes global inclusion, with employees from 40+ countries and 100+ nationalities.
- **Work environment**: Flexible work options; workspace reimbursement for remote setup (every 5 years).
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, equity, employee stock purchase plan, health coverage, parental leave, family formation benefits, paid time off (PTO), 40 hours volunteer time off per year, donation matching up to $2,000/year.
- **Engineering culture**: Run on own products (dogfooding); focus on open source, innovation, and AI.
- **Career growth**: Opportunities across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and more.

## Sources
1. [elastic.co/careers](https://www.elastic.co/careers)
2. [elastic.co/about](https://www.elastic.co/about)
3. [elastic.co](https://www.elastic.co/)
4. [jobs.elastic.co](https://jobs.elastic.co/)
5. [elastic.co/careers/benefits](https://www.elastic.co/careers/benefits)

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