Digital Native Account Executive (Startups) - Remote

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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that.

We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations : ATX, NYC OR Remote US

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 and execute a comprehensive account / territory plan to achieve quarterly sales and annual revenue targets in a defined territory and / or account list.
• Drive new business acquisition (new customer logos), customer expansion (upsell and cross sell Cloudflare solutions), and renewal within your territory.
• Build a robust sales pipeline through continual engagement and nurturing of key prospect accounts.
• Understand customer use-cases and how they pair with Cloudflare’s portfolio solutions in order to identify new sales opportunities.
• Craft and communicate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services. Drive awareness through regular outbound campaigns on product and feature roadmap updates.
• Accurately forecast 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 :

• 4+ years closing experience selling B2B SaaS (technical product preferred)
• Skilled in out-bounding to key stakeholders within fast-paced organizations & mapping Cloudflare innovations to business objectives
• Working or tangential knowledge of the cloud infrastructure and / or security space
• Track record of exceeding $750k - $1M annual target and track record of growth within current organization
• Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment
• Bachelor's degree required
• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative abilities
• Software and system skills are a must (SFDC, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite)

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience :

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure ecosystem and cloud security is highly preferred.
• Experience working in a start-up environment.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Technical competence strongly preferred.

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 : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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 : We created 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.

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!

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.

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