Senior Account Executive

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to build a better Internet. Our network powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies. We protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Our customers see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. We're proud to be named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We're looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills. We're a diverse and inclusive team, and we hire the best people based on their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. We're a remote-friendly company, and this role can be based in New York or New Jersey.

Our Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations teams work together to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. We help our customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help us provide free service to millions in our community.

We're looking for a highly motivated Senior Majors Account Executive to join our team. This role will manage a focused set of accounts with > $1B in annual revenues and the potential to do $10M ARR with Cloudflare. The Majors Account team will shape and lead Cloudflare's Go To Market in the F100.

We'll leverage the strength of all Cloudflare functions to become a strategic partner to our customers and their digital transformation efforts. Our product and services and our methods of engagement will differentiate and delight our customers. The Senior Majors Account Executive will interact with both C-level clients and senior Technical Decision makers, utilizing Cloudflare solutions and resources to drive a business partnership focused on joint success with our customers.

Success requires consultative, solutions-oriented sales, and customer service skills in addition to intense personal energy and focused activity. A critical factor of achievement in this role is the ability and desire to focus and lead an internal group of constituents to bring their skillset to bear to build solutions and exponentially grow revenue. The Senior Majors Account Executive must be expert in identifying business opportunities with customers, developing Major Account Plans, driving execution across functional stakeholders, and closing revenue.

The Senior Majors Account Executive will be accountable to obtaining new business and expansion of Cloudflare wallet-share within existing customers. The role involves handling multiple accounts and will require high degrees of attention to detail and coordination with customers, partners, and internal resources. The Senior Majors Account Executive should thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where initiative is celebrated and enthusiasm for the possible is expected.

• Proactively manage and grow a portfolio of assigned Majors Account level clients.
• Closing new and expansion business monthly, quarterly, and annually, meeting or exceeding assigned quota.
• Manage customer relationships and assume ownership of deadlines and deliverables to ensure Cloudflare is correctly positioned to win business.
• Develop C-level and Decision Maker relationships within accounts for the purpose of establishing strategic alignment to customer's transformative objectives.
• Develop pipeline by maintaining a high level of activity/outreach directly and indirectly, deeply understanding the customers goals and objectives, and analyzing where Cloudflare can add value.
• Maintain accurate forecasts and report to the sales leader on the status of New and Expansion opportunities for weekly sales meetings. Leverage MEDDPIC framework in SFDC document weekly progress.
• Accountable to reverse closure steps and establish jointly owned timelines with Customers. Understand the purchasing process fully and be able to document progress against required steps to closure.
• Organize and deliver executive level presentations, proposals, commercial terms with Customers.
• Leverage the Executive Briefing Center and process to establish key sponsorships and support of accounts with Cloudflare Executives.
• Build and maintain relationships with channel partners to establish joint value propositions and Customer value.
• Participate in team meetings and delivery GTM guidance on how to better partner with Strategic Accounts

• Demonstrate proficiency in Cloud Networking and Security Technology with Industry awareness.
• Demonstrated track record of meeting and exceeding quota.
• Expert Sales Acumen (Discovery, Position, Compete, Negotiate, Close, Expand).
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team over a long-term account horizon.
• Able to identify key players in organizations and possess the ability to convert business issues into solutions.
• Comfortable selling to obtain new business or expand existing business. Strong closing skills are essential.
• Clear concise communicator verbally and written.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships quickly.
• Someone who acts with integrity and honesty in all situations.
• Be able to demonstrate a positive attitude internally and externally.
• Expert at building rapport and owning the room.
• A life-long learner committed to learning new skills and practicing key skills with discipline so that you couldn't do them wrong if you tried.
• Aggressiveness in execution & planning.
• Ability to take successes and challenges in stride.
• Discipline to work w/o instant gratification.
• Self-starter & Entrepreneurial Spirit.
• Someone who is bold in their actions and never satisfied with complacency.
• A strong will and fortitude to work a plan in the face of challenge.
• A business professional who loves the sales profession.

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

1.1.1.1: We released to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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