Senior Named Account Executive, Toronto

Cloudflare; East Portal Distributed Camping Area (CO); Remote; USD 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced Senior Named Account Executive to drive revenue with large enterprise customers in Canada, leveraging both sales and technical acumen. You’ll own the strategy, engage c-level and technical stakeholders, and help clients adopt Cloudflare solutions to improve security and performance.

The role requires managing a defined territory or list, negotiating contracts, and building long-term relationships while ensuring customer satisfaction and sustainable growth

Qualifications

• 6+ years of direct B2B sales experience in security, networking, or related tech sectors.
• Proven track record selling to large enterprise accounts in North America.
• Strong ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical buyers.

Responsibilities

• Cover large Canada accounts; remote candidates in Toronto or Montreal areas.
• Combine sales and technical knowledge to engage both technical and non-technical buyers.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive account/territory plan to hit revenue targets.
• Lead contract negotiations and maintain a robust sales pipeline.
• Build long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

Skills

B2B sales

Enterprise accounts

Networking basics

CRM & pipeline management

Stakeholder communication

Job description

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

Toronto, Ontatio

About the Role

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 revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a seasoned sales professional to cover large accounts in Canada, and are open to remote candidates in the Toronto and Montreal areas. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.
• As an Senior Named Account Executive, you'll be responsible for developing and executing against a comprehensive account/territory plan as well as driving sales in a defined territory and/or account list to achieve revenue targets. The person in this role will also assist in creating and articulating compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services.
• Manage contract negotiations
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
• Ensure customer satisfaction

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• A minimum 6 years of direct B2B experience selling security or networking products/solutions (cyber security, IaaS, PaaS, etc).
• A minimum 3 years selling to large enterprise accounts in Canada, specifically in the Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver markets
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Deep understanding of computer networking and “how the internet works”
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (technical background in network engineering or computer science is a plus)
• Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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: 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 Cloudflare’s 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. 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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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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