Senior Territory Account Executive, Poland

Location Hybrid - London, Lisbon, Munich or Amsterdam

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

The Senior Territory Account Executive position effectively delivers the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiating and closing sales with new & existing customers in line with business plans. Identify and progress cross sell opportunities to maximise revenue goals. Selling new products and generating additional sales revenue through effective sales outreach activity. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement from administrative through executive levels within network operations, development and technical infrastructure teams.

Regional Focus: Poland

The Ideal Candidate

• Passionate about sales: You have a hunger to win and a desire to exceed your targets and reap the rewards.
• Strong customer service skills: You put the client first and you do what you say you’ll do.
• Personable, resilient and a culture champion: A friendly, warm and professional demeanour will get you far. You celebrate the ups and bounce back quickly from your missteps.
• Cool and calm under pressure: The ability to effectively manage competing priorities and solve multiple problems quickly is in your DNA.

Main 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.
• Effectively scale the territory with partners.
• 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.

Knowledge/Experience

• 6+ years of B2B selling experience and selling Enterprise Software or SaaS (network security preferred) or Hardware solutions and services to Mid‑Enterprise/ Enterprise customers.
• Relevant direct experience, track record, and relationships within enterprise and mid‑market accounts in the territory.
• New Business & Expansion.
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles.
• Fast paced environment.
• Enterprise IT/Cyber Security background.
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus).

Compensation

For Germany based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €152,000 - €209,000. This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s 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 Cloudflare’s equity plan. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.