Available Location: Austin, US, Miami, US

What you'll do 

We’re looking for a results-driven, highly motivated Account Executives to join our Enterprise Account Team and work with some of the largest companies in Brazil. This key role will manage a select portfolio of 20-30 enterprise accounts. You’ll be at the heart of Cloudflare’s Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy, directly contributing to the expansion of our customer base and revenue.

In this role, you will leverage the combined strength of all Cloudflare functions to position us as a strategic partner in our customers’ digital transformation journey. You’ll be responsible for delivering tailored solutions and engagement strategies that exceed expectations and drive growth. As the key point of contact for senior decision-makers, including Clevel executives and technical leaders, you’ll foster lasting business partnerships built on mutual success.

Enterprise Account Team Core Values:

• Be Successful: Success comes from hitting your goals on a consistent basis. Have a plan for “how” you’ll hit your goals and evaluate often; that way you always know where you stand. Be in a position and ready to demonstrate your plan for success.
• Provide a Premium Customer Experience: solutions, empathy, proactiveness, anticipation of needs, company support, creativity, and urgency to deliver value. Give your customers a level of service that is unmatched in the industry.
• Be Brilliant in the Basics: commit to brilliance in the basics. Forecasting, SFDC disciplines, pipeline management, account engagement, negotiation, closing, and depth of Cloudflare knowledge are the basic skills that make an Account Executive successful.
• Be a Team Player: We are all individually accountable to our goals, but we operate as a team. Be the person who actively seeks to assist the team, shares knowledge, and extends your personal network. We are successful when we are all overachieving as a group.

Additional responsibilities will include: 

• Proactively manage and grow a portfolio of assigned Enterprise level clients.
• Close new and expansion business monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, meeting or exceeding assigned quota.
• Manage customer relationships and assume ownership of deadlines and deliverables to ensure Cloudflare is correctly positioned to win business.
• Develop C level and Decision Maker relationships within accounts for the purpose of establishing strategic alignment to customer’s transformative objectives.
• Develop pipeline by maintaining a high level of activity/outreach directly and indirectly, deeply understanding the customers goals and objectives, and analyzing where Cloudflare can add value.
• Maintain accurate forecasts and report to the sales leader on the status of New and Expansion opportunities for weekly sales meetings.
• Leverage MEDDPIC framework in SFDC document weekly progress.
• Accountable to reverse closure steps and establish jointly owned timelines with Customers.
• Understand the purchasing process fully and be able to document progress against required steps to closure.
• Organize and deliver executive level presentations, proposals, commercial terms with Customers.
• Leverage the Executive Briefing Center and process to establish key sponsorships and support of accounts with 1 Cloudflare Executives.
• Build and maintain relationships with channel partners to establish joint value propositions and Customer value.
• Participate in team meetings and deliver GTM guidance on how to better partner with accounts.
• This position will require travel >30% of your time to support the business, events and other Cloudflare related activities.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 6+ years of experience coupled with proficiency in cybersecurity or cloud networking with industry awareness. 
• Demonstrated track record of meeting and exceeding quota.
• Expert Sales Acumen (Discovery, Position, Compete, Negotiate, Close, Expand).
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team over a long term account horizon.
• Able to identify key players in organizations and possess the ability to convert business issues into solutions.
• Comfortable selling to obtain new business or expand existing business.
• Strong closing skills are essential.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships quickly. Be able to demonstrate a positive attitude internally and externally.
• Expert at building rapport and owning the room.
• Aggressiveness in execution and planning.
• Ability to take successes and challenges in stride.
• Discipline to work w/o instant gratification.
• Someone who is bold in their actions and never satisfied with complacency.
• A strong will and fortitude to work a plan in the face of challenge.
• Portuguese fluency is required.

Available Locations: Mexico City, Austin TX, Miami FL

To the attention of candidates (Mexico City): Visa sponsorship is NOT provided for this position.

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.

What you'll do

We are looking for a seasoned sales professional to join our Commercial Team responsible for covering Enterprise accounts in the LATAM area. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you'll be responsible for developing and executing against a comprehensive account/territory plan as well as driving sales in a defined territory and/or account list to achieve revenue targets. The person in this role will also assist in creating and articulating compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Manage contract negotiations.
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Prospecting into target accounts to generate new sales opportunities.
• Aligning with channel partners on go-to-market strategy.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum 6 years experience selling technology solutions in a B2B model, 3+ years selling to large enterprise accounts
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Experience supporting and building relationships in Colombia highly preferred 
• Basic understanding of computer networking 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 organizational skills
• Bilingual in Spanish and English
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment

Available Locations: Miami, FL 

*This is a work-from-home role, but you should reside in one of the regions.

What you’ll do as a Senior Solutions Engineer

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sales of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds including but not limited to Sales Consultants, Technical Consultants, Technical Support and Program Managers. 

You are a customer facing technologist within the Cloudflare Solutions Engineering team. You have experience in working in a pre-sales or other technical customer facing role supporting large enterprise accounts or acquiring new enterprise customers, as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills suited to explain the benefits of CloudFlare products and services to existing and potential customers. In this role you will be responsible for partnering with the sales team to understand customer requirements and provide sales support, prepare and deliver technical presentations and demos explaining the benefits of Cloudflare products to existing and potential customers, and run proof of concept trials for customers.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Identify and map customer initiatives and business problems to Cloudflare solutions
• Build relationships and technical champions within customer accounts
• Develop and present customer presentations at every Enterprise Customer’s organization level
• Lead demo and proof-of-concept activities for Cloudflare prospects and customers
• Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare with your peers  through the creation of professional content, including white papers, blog posts and other knowledge sharing activities
• Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and Industry focused events with thought leadership and expertise
• Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices

Basic Requirements

• Previous experience as a Solutions Engineer or other customer facing technical role with CDN, Security, Networking or SaaS
• Solid communication, written and presentation skills
• Ability to work on several projects and activities concurrently
• Highly driven individuals that are curious, team players and work with a sense of urgency
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
• The role requires up to 50% travel to attend meetings with prospects or customers, attend conferences and other industry events, and to collaborate with your Cloudflare teammates

Examples of one or more desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Fundamental understanding of customer network and/or application architectures. 
• Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Understanding, knowledge or experience of application and/or network security 
• Understanding, knowledge or experiences with SaaS application environments
• Understanding, knowledge or experience with VPN and remote access challenges
• Understanding, knowledge or experience with SIEM and log analytics platforms 
• Client OS fundamentals and software distribution

Other desirable skills areas include:

• Experience interacting with senior level/executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation
• Routing, subnetting, split tunnels. SD-WAN, local internet breakout
• End user and application security risks - DDoS, malware, phishing, viruses
• Knowledge of competitive market around CDN providers and internet security technologies

Bonus Points

• Graduate-level degrees in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields. Reminder: this is not a strict requirement at all. Candidates from all walks of life are welcome.
• Certifications: Azure/AWS/GCP Architect, etc.

More About You

• You can translate technical concepts and jargon for a wide variety of audiences: from systems engineers, to front-end developers, through to IT managers and C-levels in enterprise organizations.
• You want to be constantly learning new things and teaching what you've learned to the broader team through internal and external blog posts, team demos, and product training sessions.
• You have a knack for understanding problems and finding creative ways to solve them. Our product suite is ever-growing, and knowing how to identify which parts will solve a customer's particular problem is important.
• You understand how to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing demands.

Available Location: Tampa or Miami

Senior Solutions Engineer -  Mid-Market - Tampa

What we look for in our Senior Solutions Engineers

Our Solutions Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds: financial consulting, engineering, software development, product management, customer support, and project delivery. We're serious about building a diverse team. When hiring we look for diversity of experience combined with genuine curiosity for our technology.

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms. You are naturally curious, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty. You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with customers, and look forward to helping them realize the full promise of Cloudflare. On the Solutions Engineering team, you will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other.

Responsibilities

• As critical members of Cloudflare’s sales team, Solutions Engineers drive technical discussions and implementations to help generate new business, expand existing business, and keep our customers happy.
• In business generation and expansion, you’ll be tasked with qualification of prospect and customer use cases, technical requirements discovery, leading demonstrations, solution identification and design, and collaborative work on proofs-of-concept (PoCs).
• For our existing customers, Solutions Engineers are part of a dedicated account team that advises the customer on technical best practices, implementation of Cloudflare products and features, and strategic guidance on internet security and performance.
• The role requires 20-30% travel to attend meetings with prospects or customers, attend conferences and other industry events, and to collaborate with your Cloudflare teammates.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash, Lua, Go) and a desire to expand those skills.
• Expertise in internet technologies: OSI Model layers 1-7, BGP, GRE, TCP/UDP, DNS (authoritative and recursive), HTTP(S), SSL / TLS.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Framework and SASE related concepts.
• 12 years plus of experience in a customer-facing sales or consulting role.
• Technical curiosity and passion: Cloudflare is at the cutting edge of internet technology, and our Solutions Engineers are viewed as subject-matter experts. It’s incumbent on us to stay up to date not only with Cloudflare’s specific products, but with industry trends.
• A focus on learning, teaching, collaboration, mentorship, and growth, not only personally but also within the team and company.
• Aside from technical and collaborative skills, we place a high value on project management, relationship building, and EQ.

Desired

• You've built web applications before, or contributed to existing web applications in a meaningful way.
• You understand the role of a firewall, the difference between L3, L4, and L7 firewalls, and that ‘ACL’ doesn't always mean Anterior Cruciate Ligament.
• You're not afraid of command-line interfaces, RESTful APIs, or analyzing HTTP request and response in a browser’s web inspector.
• You can describe the differences between CSRF, XSS, and SQLi in detail, and Cloudflare's role in defending against them.
• Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such a PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC-2.
• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Reminder: this is not a strict requirement at all. Candidates from all walks of life are welcome.

Bonus Points

• Graduate-level degrees in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields. Reminder: this is not a strict requirement at all. Candidates from all walks of life are welcome.
• Certifications

More About You

• You can translate technical concepts and jargon for a wide variety of audiences: from systems engineers, to front-end developers, through to IT managers and C-levels in organizations.
• You want to be constantly learning new things and teaching what you've learned to the broader team through internal and external blog posts, team demos, and product training sessions.
• You have a knack for understanding problems and finding creative ways to solve them. Our product suite is ever-growing, and knowing how to identify which parts will solve a customer's particular problem is important.
• You understand how to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing demands.