Startups Account Executive

Posted 22 Days Ago
Remote
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Startups Account Executive at Cloudflare is responsible for driving new business acquisition and customer expansion within the digital native segment. The role involves developing account plans, building sales pipelines, and crafting value propositions while maintaining relationships with key accounts. The candidate should possess strong communication skills and a technical background to facilitate effective engagement with stakeholders.
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Available Locations: ATX OR NYC OR SF/Bay Area
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.
About this Role
Digital Native AEs at Cloudflare sell into the most innovative companies in North America. In targeting high-growth, technologically advanced, and venture-backed companies, AEs are positioned to drive in-depth product discussions while communicating and demonstrating value quickly to customers. This role within the digital native segment focuses on both the acquisition of prospective Digital Native accounts, as well as the expansion of existing customer accounts. The ideal candidate will have both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive customer engagement from technical professionals through to senior executive levels, and across Security, Network, Development and Infrastructure teams.
Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a comprehensive account/territory plan to achieve quarterly sales and annual revenue targets in a defined territory and/or account list.
  • Drive new business acquisition (new customer logos), customer expansion (upsell and cross sell Cloudflare solutions), and renewal within your territory.
  • Build a robust sales pipeline through continual engagement and nurturing of key prospect accounts.
  • Understand customer use-cases and how they pair with Cloudflare's portfolio solutions in order to identify new sales opportunities.
  • Craft and communicate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services. Drive awareness through regular outbound campaigns on product and feature roadmap updates.
  • Accurately forecast commercial outcomes by running a consistent sales process, including driving next step expectations and contract negotiations.
  • As a trusted advisor, build long-term strategic relationships with key accounts, to ensure customer adoption, retention and expansion. Regularly evaluate usage trends and articulate value to show Cloudflare impact and provide strategic recommendations during business reviews.
  • Network across different business units with each of your accounts, and multi-thread to identify and engage new divisional buyers.
  • Position Cloudflare's platform in each of your target customers, including Cloudflare One and the Connectivity Cloud to realize our full potential in every customer.
  • Operate internally as a liaison with cross-functional teams to share key customer feedback and insights to improve customer experience and further investments with Cloudflare.


Requirements:

  • 4+ years closing experience selling B2B SaaS (technical product preferred)
  • Skilled in out-bounding to key stakeholders within fast-paced organizations & mapping Cloudflare innovations to business objectives
  • Working or tangential knowledge of the cloud infrastructure and/or security space
  • Track record of exceeding $750k - $1M annual target and track record of growth within current organization
  • Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills
  • Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Demonstrated analytical and quantitative abilities
  • Software and system skills are a must (SFDC, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite)

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure ecosystem and cloud security is highly preferred.
  • Experience working in a start-up environment.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
  • Technical competence strongly preferred.
The Company
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3,300 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Cloudflare, Inc. is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s suite of products protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was awarded by Reuters Events for Global Responsible Business in 2020, named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2021, and ranked among Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022.

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We are committed to developing a global team that is distributed with a flexible working approach. Doing this equitably and inclusively is essential to our success. Visit our careers site for more on 'How & Where We Work.'

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