Senior Territory Account Executive, Bengaluru

About Us
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.
At Cloudflare, we're not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we're looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you're the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you'll fit right in.
Please note: This role will require you to be based in Bengaluru.
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.
Based in India (Bengaluru), you will drive sales into commercial and enterprise accounts across Karnataka and South India for Cloudflare's solutions. Your strategic selling activities will include "hunter" type activities to proactively penetrate target named accounts, detailed account planning, focused relationship building and leading effective sales campaigns to successful closure of high-value, multi-product architectural transformations.
The ideal candidate will possess both a major account sales background in technology solutions, primarily software and cloud-based, that enables them to drive engagement with senior level decision makers (CISOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering) within Cloudflare's target customers. Industry experience selling into Digital Natives, IT/ITES, SaaS scale-ups, and other Enterprise verticals is desired in this role. You must be capable of orchestrating complex six-figure ($100K+) expansions encompassing Zero Trust/SASE, Developer Platforms (Workers/R2), and Application Security.
As an Account Executive, you'll be responsible for developing and executing against a Sales strategy/plan for assigned vertical or accounts, as well as driving large account sales into India markets to achieve revenue targets. Therefore, you must have a strong network of contacts with decision makers in enterprise accounts across the region, and have experience selling complex solutions to these accounts. You will have an intuitive understanding and experience with the key business and technical needs of these large accounts and will create and deliver compelling value propositions to them for Cloudflare solutions, specifically targeting competitive displacements of Cybersecurity SaaS like Akamai, AWS, Azure, GCP, legacy appliances, Zscaler, or Cisco Umbrella.
Additional responsibilities will include

• Manage complex contract negotiations for high-AOV, multi-product enterprise deals
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline through proactive outbound targeting and whitespace mining within your installed base
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts to convert variable usage into committed enterprise contracts
• Collaborate closely with the regional partner ecosystem (e.g., Tech Data, Softcell) to accelerate deal velocity
• < 50% travel

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• Fluent in English
• Relevant direct experience, track record, and relationships within corporate enterprise accounts in the India market (specifically Karnataka and South India)
• Minimum 10 years of direct B2B selling experience, preferably managing internet, cloud, and security accounts
• Direct experience selling network security, Zero Trust/SASE (Cloudflare One), and/or CDN / Application Security solutions preferred
• Proven track record of executing competitive takeout campaigns against legacy hardware and cloud point solutions
• Prior experience being part of an early sales team helping drive traction in India market for a US-based SaaS company highly preferred
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles and cross-functional evaluations
• Basic understanding of computer networking, cloud architectures, and "how the internet works"
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus)
• Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organisational skills
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment

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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