Senior Named Account Executive - High Tech (NY Metro)

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare, a leader in internet infrastructure, is seeking an Enterprise AI and Digital Natives focused Senior Named Account Executive for the NYC Metro market. You will drive net-new and expansion opportunities with premier SaaS platforms, hyperscale digital marketplaces, and AI labs, spanning security, networking, and development teams.

The ideal candidate combines sales experience with a technical background to engage from engineers to C-suite, managing complex deals and multi-threaded

Qualifications

• 5+ years of sales experience in B2B SaaS.
• Strong discovery skills in a B2B context.
• Ability to form a point of view on industry trends and articulate change narratives.
• Proven track record beating annual targets of $1M+ in complex deals.
• Experience multithreading into the C-suite across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and maintain your territory plan to exceed quarterly sales targets and annual quota.
• Be expert in three sales motions: new business, expansion, and renewal within your territory.
• Build a robust sales pipeline using AE outbound, BDR, Channel, and Marketing Inbound.
• Develop deep technical understanding to drive a consultative sales motion.
• Craft compelling value propositions and communicate Cloudflare updates to customers.
• Forecast accurately and manage commercial outcomes through a consistent sales process.
• Build long-term strategic relationships with key accounts for adoption, retention, and expansion.
• Network across business units and cross-thread to engage new divisional buyers.
• Position Cloudflare's platform to realize full potential in each customer.

Skills

5+ years sales experience

B2B discovery

Industry trends insight

Targets over $1M+

C-suite multi-threading

Self-motivated entrepreneurial

Bachelor's degree

SFDC

Tableau

G-Suite

MS Office

Travel up to 25%

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SFDC

Tableau

G-Suite

MS Office

Job description

New York, New York, United States

Position Title: Senior Named Account Executive - High Tech (NY Metro)

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were 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 youre 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, youll fit right in.

Available Location: NYC Metro

About the role

The Enterprise AI and Digital Natives segment is Cloudflare's fastest growing and highest visibility market. This segment is dedicated exclusively to the largest organizations in the modern tech economy including premier SaaS platforms, hyperscale digital marketplaces, and leading AI labs. This is a deep infrastructure, developer centric play where technical alignment and deep engineering partnerships are our most critical currencies, resulting in Cloudflares largest and most complex enterprise agreements.

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.

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.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• 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 work location.

• For NYC based hires: Estimated annual salary of $269,000 - $360,000.

This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflares Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares 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

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

Were not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Were 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: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the 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. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 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. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide on our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

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