Digital Natives Account Executive

Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations work together to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real technical problems while driving the revenue that enables us to provide free services to millions globally.

ABOUT THIS ROLE:

You will be responsible for driving new business with fast-growing, cloud-native, VC-backed technology companies across the UK & Ireland, working closely with founders and senior technical leaders.

This is an outbound, direct sales role requiring strong discipline, resilience, and commercial focus. You will own the full sales cycle - from account selection and prospecting through discovery, solution design, proposal, negotiation, and close.

We are seeking someone who combines strong sales execution with technical credibility, and who is comfortable engaging across Engineering, DevOps, Security, Network, IT, and Infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Execute sales plans to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual quota targets
• Build and manage a portfolio of high-potential Digital Native - Emerging accounts focused on application security and performance
• Generate and maintain pipeline through proactive outbounding and account engagement
• Partner with BDRs and Marketing to drive demand and awareness

Research target accounts to understand business models, growth plans, and technical priorities

• Lead discovery to uncover business goals, challenges, and pain points

Use a consultative approach to align Cloudflare solutions to customer outcomes

• Collaborate with Solution Engineers and Product teams to design tailored solutions
• Deliver clear, compelling presentations and proposals
• Maintain accurate pipeline, forecasting, and MEDDPIC discipline in Salesforce
• Manage end-to-end sales cycles with jointly owned customer timelines

Proven ability to leverage ecosystem and channel relationships to influence, originate, and accelerate opportunities in startup and digital native segments

Desirable Skills:

• 4+ years B2B new business sales experience with at least 2 years closing
• Outbound prospecting experience (BDR or full-cycle AE)
• Track record selling to high-growth or VC-backed technology companies
• Experience selling technical, cloud, SaaS, security, or infrastructure solutions
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and modern application architectures
• Experience managing both short and complex sales cycles
• Knowledge of application security (WAF, API security, DDoS) highly desirable
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• High ownership, resilience, and adaptability
• A disciplined, driven sales professional with high integrity and energy

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.

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