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Senior Account Executive, Startups East

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Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
184K-250K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
184K-250K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Account Executive drives sales for Cloudflare, targeting high-growth companies while managing customer accounts and relationships across technical teams.
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Available Locations: New York, Boston, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or Maryland (Baltimore).
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, execute, and maintain your territory plan to exceed quarterly sales targets and annual quota assignment.
  • Be an expert in three unique sales motions; new business acquisition (new customer logos), customer expansion (upsell and cross sell Cloudflare solutions), and renewal within your territory.
  • Build a robust sales pipeline utilizing the four sourcing funnels: AE led outbound, BDR, Channel, and Marketing Inbound.
  • Develop and strategically leverage a deep technical understanding of the problems Cloudflare solves in order to drive a consultative sales motion.
  • Craft and communicate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services. Drive awareness through regular outbound campaigns on product and feature roadmap updates.
  • Accurately forecast, build 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:

  • 5+ years sales experience selling B2B SaaS
  • Strong B2B discovery skills
  • Candidates have a point of view of industry trends and able to customize a client centric why change narrative
  • Track record of beating annual targets of $1M+ and successfully managing complex six figure deals
  • Experienced in multithreading into the C-suite and across an organization to manage a complex sales cycle
  • Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Software and system skills are a must (SFDC, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite)
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on level and work location.
For New York based hires: Estimated annual OTE of $184,000 - $250,000.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance


Financial Benefits

  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan


Time Off

  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

Top Skills

B2B Saas
Google Suite
Microsoft Suite
SFDC
Tableau

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