Senior Named Account Executive (AI & Digital Natives)

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

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 Cloudflare’s 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.

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.

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.

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
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave