Available Locations: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Munich, Germany, Paris, France

What You’ll Do

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organisation is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support to do so. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organisation as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

The range of products and solutions offered by Cloudflare are broad so that we are able to meet our lofty goal of helping to build a better Internet. A broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technology is required, the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare. All the resources and training required to be effective for the role, will be provided.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

Our Solutions Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds: IT, engineering, software development, product management, financial consulting, customer support & 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 realise 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.

You will have a good fundamental understanding on how to obtain the technical win so that customers choose our proposed solutions over that of competitors.

Additional experience might include a combination of the skills below: 

• 3-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry (early or mid-level experience).
• Fluent Czech and English (written & spoken).
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands.
• Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face. 
• Understanding of “how the internet works”. For example:
• Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favour one over the other;
• Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS?;
• You understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike;
• Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.
• A knowledge of the competitive landscape for one or more of: DDoS, CDN, Performance, DNS, Developer platform or Zero-Trust/SASE service providers.
• You're OK with some (10-15 days per quarter) travel without travel restrictions: we expect to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or do talks. 

Bonus! 

• Previous experience in a pre-sales SE or consulting role. (note: doesn't have to be in tech);
• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
• Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends in Security such as Zero Trust. 

Available Locations: Netherlands, United kingdom, Germany, Portugal, France, Sweden

About Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solutions Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. 

What you'll do as a Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leadership role. You are a customer facing hands-on technologist with credibility built on domain expertise across Cloudflare portfolio.  You should have solid experience in influencing enterprise architecture design across various senior buyer personas both at customers and partner organizations. Your role will be to convince these decision makers of the long term value of thinking of Cloudflare as a strategic technology partner. 

You will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product, through to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

You will work as a part of a highly visible structured pursuit team attached to designated strategic accounts, working to understand their unique business challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long term solution architecture with Cloudflare as a centerpiece. An equally important component of this role is the expectation that you scale your expertise and knowledge across the wider Pre Sales Solution Engineering organization.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Build and maintain the long term technical relationship of key accounts, ensuring the successful design, proof and adoption of Cloudflare as a part of the customers critical infrastructure.
• Identify and drive strategic conversations with key stakeholders with the purpose of increasing our reputation and authority within the business, and further establishing our footprint within the customers landscape.
• Be the voice of the customer, engaging and influencing Product Management and Product Roadmap to serve their needs. 
• Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare within your field through the creation of professional content, including white papers, reference architectures, blog posts.
• 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.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 7+ years of experience in similar role or experience in a technical leadership role
• Previous experience as a solution architect, consultant or technical marketing engineer building, architecting or deploying security solutions
• Good understanding of AI, security challenges and its applicability to today’s enterprise landscape
• Proven track record using it to help drive revenue.
• Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations
• Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms
• Proven experience working with customers and partners in successful design and deployment of solutions
• Ability to juggle and successfully drive projects with customers, prospects, and partners.
• Experience with cloud computing solutions implementations including Microsoft 365, Azure, Google, AWS.
• Experience with Application, Security, Performance and Reliability products such as WAF, Bot Management, DDOS, Firewall, DNS and CDN.
• Knowledge of competitive market  around CDN providers, Web application Firewall, Remote access solutions, Next generation Firewalls, DDOS mitigations solutions, SD-WAN solutions , Secure Gateway solutions, SSE/SASE
• Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways.  
• Experience working with Identity Providers such as Entra AD, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc.
• Knowledge of web application programming XML, REST/SOAP API’s, REST, JSON,
• Experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and IAC products like Terraform
• Knowledge of security and cryptography.
• Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies and containerization

Available Locations: London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Munich, Paris

What you’ll do:

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organization is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solutions portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design, and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

Technology moves at lightning speed; a broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technologies is required, and the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience:

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts—like how an edge network reduces "lag" or how WAF rules protect a player's wallet—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, from managing "micro-burst" traffic spikes to navigating regulatory requirements. You will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other obtain the technical win so that customers choose Cloudflare to protect and accelerate their platforms.

Additional experience might include:

• Language: fluent in Polish and English
• 5-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Vertical Expertise: Understanding the cloud architectures, with main focus on security layers, such as CDN, WAF, SASE and Anti-DDoS..
• Technical "How the Internet Works": * Deep understanding of TCP vs. UDP, why it matters and why it's so critical from security point of view;
• Solid understanding of DDoS mitigation strategies at Layers 3, 4, and 7 to prevent services disruption.

Pre-Sales Excellence: Previous experience in a technical consulting or SE role, with a track record of demonstrating ROI to CTOs and Infrastructure Leads.

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  Project Management: Ability to manage complex Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and prioritize between competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Excellent presentation skills with a strong command of business English. 
• Market Knowledge: Familiarity with the competitive landscape for CDN, Zero-Trust, and SASE providers.
• Travel: Ability to travel to customer sites, industry events and internal summits.

Bonus!

• Scripting Skills: Demonstrated experience with JavaScript, Python, or Rust, and a desire to help customers build the next generation of serverless features on Cloudflare Workers.

• Security Trends: Exposure to emerging trends such as Zero Trust for securing internal employees traffic or remote-work environments.

• Drive the GTM Strategy: Define and execute a plan for your territory, balancing rapid pipeline generation with long-term strategic account development.
• Land & Expand: From securing the first "Land" in a Greenfield account to orchestrating multi-million dollar platform plays across global subsidiaries.
• C-Level Engagement: Navigate complex buying cycles by articulating Rubrik’s impact on Cyber Resilience to CISOs, CIOs, and CFOs.
• Ecosystem Orchestration: Lead a "win-as-a-team" approach, co-selling with top-tier partners, distributors, and internal specialist teams.
• Market Intelligence: Act as the "eyes and ears" of Rubrik in France, providing feedback to leadership on the local competitive landscape and emerging opportunities.

• Proven Closing Excellence: 5+ years of experience in high-growth Tech Sales (SaaS, Cyber, or Infrastructure).
• The "Hunter" DNA: A consistent track record of self-sourcing new logos and outperforming quotas in the French market.
• Strategic Sophistication: Ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder deals ($250k–$1M+ ARR) with long-term vision.
• Channel Savvy: Deep experience leveraging the French partner ecosystem to scale reach.
• Fluent Communication: Native-level French and professional English are essential for internal and external collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling complex enterprise solutions into IT decision-maker personas.
• Expertise in MEDDPICC and Command of the Message methodologies.
• Existing relationships within the CAC 40 or SBF 120 landscapes.
• A background in Cybersecurity or Data Management.

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Available Location: Paris

About the Department

Account Executives, 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 the Role

Our Southern Europe Sales Team has been building an Enterprise focussed team spanning across mid-tier and all the way up to Global 2000 Enterprise accounts. Cloudflare has accelerated bringing both Enterprise and Fortune 1000 companies onto our platform in recent years, and this team will do that with more focus, faster pace, and higher long term growth expectations.

As the Sales Manager you will lead our France Majors Sales Team. We are seeking a highly experienced and talented Majors Accounts’ Sales Leader to help us manage and grow the organisation with overall responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue, hiring and brand awareness while maintaining the Cloudflare Culture. 

The position will require leadership that spans go-to-market strategy development, managing Majors Account Executives and key account planning program development and implementation, executive relationship mapping and alignment, cultivating deep levels of trust and product co-creation, balancing short term with long term sales cycles and collaborating extensively cross-functionally to bring to bear product, marketing, support, success, solution engineering and channel onto our highest growth potential accounts. The goal is cultivating delighted, referenceable, multi-million dollar (ACV) large enterprise Cloudflare customers who obtain business value from today’s portfolio and our future roadmap.

• Continue to grow and build the France Majors Accounts’ Sales Team and drive the hiring needs through partnering with global functional leadership and recruiting resources.
• Lead a senior, experienced Sales Team as well as directly and indirectly lead the supporting roles and resources surrounding our Majors accounts
• Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organisational planning, customer service, and outstanding execution of all regional go-to-market programs (sales, customer success, solutions engineering, business development, support and field marketing).
• Adopt and influence the company’s sales methodology/process and drive best practices on selling, forecasting, and account management.
• Continuously design, build and execute strategies for France in collaboration with various regional and global functional leaders especially as it relates to multinational corporations with distributed buying centres and infrastructures
• Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution.
• Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by the sales organisation.
• Outstanding leadership - inspiring interpersonal effectiveness to lead teams, develop talent and effect change. Willing and able to be a “doer” and “influencer”.
• Drive business cadence for forecast calls, functional review meetings, deal review, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide kick offs.
• Represent Cloudflare as appropriate at external conferences, media, and PR events. Formulate and maintain relationships with key industry, public sector groups/forums, publications, and other related associations to help foster our Strategics’ business.
• Travel within EMEA will be expected.

Examples of desired skills, knowledge and qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of senior and multi-level sales leadership experience, coupled with direct B2B selling experience to large enterprise accounts.
• Track record in hiring and managing dozens of sellers.
• Strong understanding of the French IT & Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
• Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles but driving a quarterly cadence.
• Proven ability to sell solutions to large strategic customers.
• Strong understanding of sales process/methodology, pipeline management, accurate forecasting and delivering results quarterly.
• Individuals that have been promoted to sales leadership within companies is a plus with a proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability.
• Experience in network performance and security, “how the internet works”, corporate networking and SD-WAN as well as industry concepts such as Zero Trust and SASE.
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (technical background in engineering, computer science, or IT is a plus).
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.

Work Location: Paris, France

What you’ll do

Cloudflare’s solutions engineering function is responsible for collaborating with clients from early-stage ideation through to planning for production. Being much more than an expert solely in Cloudflare’s services, our Senior Solutions Engineers are expected to sit alongside our peers in our clients, and to contribute their energy, ideas and opinion on solving the hard problems we face in our industry today. Often this means deep work on the art-of-the possible (and sometimes being willing to put aside preconceptions on the impossible!).

On any given day, the role will provide both a challenging and rewarding opportunity to develop adjacent technology expertise as well as mastering key skills relating to technical and industry advocacy on behalf of our clients. A key aspect will be offering good* practice guidance and adopting a deploy-to-production mindset, where it is as much about the operational process as it is about the product. 

As part of our broader solutions engineering community, you will be working alongside peers with deep subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge upon whose insights will support your own. Of course, as a senior member of the team, you will also be in a position to contribute to a body-of-knowledge across key domains of networking, cybersecurity and edge computing, as well as industry analyses and perspectives. 

For this role, our Solutions Engineering team members focus on large clients for whom we are able to develop deep understanding and partnership to collaborate with. Building on a track-record of success, this role has an emphasis on supporting our large enterprise clients in the Major Accounts segment.

* As an SE, there will often be more than one way to solve a problem - hence what might be a best practice in a given context might not be true in another! This is where your experience will help.

Who we are

The problems that our clients face are both diverse and unique - which is reflected in how we think about our Solution Engineering team. Building on the benefit of the hive-mind, our SE team is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from end-customers to other vendors, Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering. In short, if we are to solve complex problems we need a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

Cloudflare’s mission is one which is both simple and timeless, to help build a better Internet. This requires a broad set of services and associated knowledge of Internet performance and security technology. We recognise many of our team usually join us with one or two core domains of expertise, however key to success is the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge which is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare. 

In our aim to support your success, all the resources and training required to build a custom personal development plan to be effective for the role, will be provided.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

Our Solutions Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds: IT, engineering, software development, product management, financial consulting, customer support & 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 realise 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.

You will have a good fundamental understanding on how to manage technical validation projects so that customers can have an informed opinion on the best solution to a given problem - with an eye on what could come next.

Additional experience might include a combination of the skills below:

• Showing up in the right-way: bringing a positive attitude, open-minded to new ideas and bringing your energy and ideas to help our clients and our team succeed. 
• 10+ years of experience in the IT industry (mid-level or senior engineering level experience).
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands.
• Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face. 
• Understanding of “how the internet works”. For example:
• Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favour one over the other;
• Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS?;
• You understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike;
• Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.
• A knowledge of the competitive landscape for one or more of: DDoS, CDN, Performance, DNS, Developer platform or Zero-Trust/SASE service providers.
• You're OK with some in-region travel (15~30 days per quarter): eg. Being next to our clients means that we need to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or events.

Bonus!

• Previous experience in a pre-sales SE or consulting role. (note: doesn't have to be in tech);
• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
• Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends such as machine learning, GenAI, DevOps, security operations etc. 

Available Location: Paris

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and Account Executive to join our Commercial/Territory Mid Market Sales Team in France. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).

As an Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B enterprise model, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Ideally expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams (e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
• Expert-level sales acumen: unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
• Authority on digital transformation trends and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
• Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
• Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
• Ability to travel as required to engage with key customers and internal teams.
• Language Skills: French & English

Available Location: Paris

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and Account Executive to join our Territory Mid Market Sales Team in France. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).

As an Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B enterprise model, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Ideally expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams (e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
• Expert-level sales acumen: unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
• Authority on digital transformation trends and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
• Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
• Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
• Ability to travel as required to engage with key customers and internal teams.
• Language Skills: French & English

Available Location: Paris

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and Major Account Executive to join our Enterprise/Field Sales Team in France. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).

As an Major Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• 10+ years of advanced experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B enterprise model, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Deep expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams (e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
• Expert-level sales acumen: unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
• Authority on digital transformation trends and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
• Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
• Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
• Ability to travel as required to engage with key customers and internal teams.
• Language Skills: French & English