Senior Commercial Account Executive (San Francisco)

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Account Executive to drive new business and expansion with Commercial accounts. This role blends sales and technical insight to engage engineers through executives, articulating value across Security and Networking solutions.

You will own your territory, build a robust pipeline via AE outbound, channel, and inbound, and forecast accurately while partnering with cross-functional teams to maximize adoption and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years sales experience selling B2B SaaS.
• Strong B2B discovery skills.
• Ability to move multithreaded into C-suite with complex deals.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and maintain territory plans to exceed targets.
• Navigate three sales motions: new business, expansion, and renewal.
• Build a robust sales pipeline using multiple sourcing funnels.
• Craft compelling value propositions and drive product adoption.

Skills

B2B SaaS sales

Discovery skills

C-suite engagement

Target attainment

Tech savviness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SFDC

Tableau

G-Suite

MS Office

Job description

Hybrid

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have 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 named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: San Francisco

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

Senior AEs are positioned to drive in-depth product discussions while communicating and demonstrating value quickly to customers. This role within this segment focuses on both the acquisition of prospective Commercial 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
• 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 Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $244,000 - $336,000