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Senior Commercial Account Executive (San Francisco)

Cloudflare· Mid Market
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$244k - $336kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior AEs drive in-depth product discussions and demonstrate value to customers, focusing on acquisition of new Commercial accounts and expansion of existing ones. Requires a combined sales and technical background to engage from technical professionals to senior executives across Security, Network, Development, and Infrastructure teams.

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, 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 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.
  • Operate internally as a liaison with cross-functional teams to share key customer feedback and insights to improve customer experience and further investments.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:B2B SaaS salesDiscovery and qualificationExecutive engagementForecasting and negotiationTechnical acumen

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare 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
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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