Senior Territory Account Executive (Digital Native), ANZ (Based in BrisbaneSydneyMelbourne)

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were 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 youre 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 youll fit right in.

Location: Sydney / Brisbane / Melbourne

About the Department

The Cloudflare APAC sales organisation operates as one integrated revenue system. Account Executives Customer Engineers Partner Account Managers Business Development Representatives Customer Experience Managers Professional Services and Revenue Operations work as a continuous engine winning deploying adopting expanding and scaling platform commitments across the full customer lifecycle.

Within this organisation the Australia Digital Native and Startup team partners with cloud-first software fintech e-commerce gaming AI and other high-growth companies. These customers move quickly build globally and expect technology partners who can match their pace while helping them strengthen security performance reliability and developer velocity.

The system is supported by an AI-embedded operating model. The work itself however remains human. The role of every seller at Cloudflare is to bring critical thinking judgment and trust to customer relationships and outcomes.

About This Role

In this role you will be responsible for driving significant growth by landing and expanding a portfolio of Digital Native and Startup customers across Australia. You will engage founders executives engineering leaders and security teams helping fast-growing businesses build and scale on Cloudflares connectivity cloud. The role may be based in Sydney Melbourne or Brisbane.

The ideal candidate combines strong new-business sales acumen with technical curiosity and the ability to operate at startup speed. As an Account Executive you will create demand build trusted relationships across technical and commercial stakeholders and drive revenue velocity through disciplined territory planning accurate forecasting and proactive pipeline management.

You are the kind of operator who uses AI as a force multiplier every day cares more about customer outcomes than job boundaries and demonstrates curiosity judgment and high agency.

Role Responsibilities

• Own and execute a comprehensive territory plan for Australias Digital Native and Startup segment to consistently achieve and exceed sales and revenue targets.
• Win new logos and expand existing customers by identifying high-growth businesses prioritising the strongest opportunities and developing account-specific engagement plans.
• Build trusted relationships with founders C-level executives engineering infrastructure platform and security leaders translating technical priorities into measurable business outcomes.
• Lead compelling discovery and value conversations around application security network modernisation developer platforms performance reliability and AI workload protection.
• Understand customer architectures and growth models and position Cloudflares platform to help customers scale securely improve resilience simplify operations and accelerate innovation.
• Leverage venture capital accelerator cloud technology and channel partners as an extension of the sales team creating repeatable referral and co-sell motions across the startup ecosystem.
• Manage the full sales cycle including prospecting qualification technical validation commercial negotiation and close while structuring multi-product and multi-year platform commitments where appropriate.
• Stay engaged through onboarding adoption and the first renewal. Partner with Customer Engineers Customer Experience and Professional Services on deployment plans tied to clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Proactively build and manage a robust pipeline using internal tools AI-assisted research and pipeline sources including BDR Channel Marketing and ecosystem partners.
• Maintain high standards in pipeline discipline CRM hygiene and forecasting accuracy.

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience selling technology solutions to digital native startup scale-up or high-growth technology companies.
• Demonstrated track record of consistently meeting and exceeding quota in a fast-paced new-business or growth sales environment.
• Proficient in prospecting discovery positioning competitive selling negotiation closing and multi-threaded land-and-expand strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure computer networking application security and modern developer platforms with the ability to learn complex technology quickly.
• Experience engaging technical buyers and business executives including founders CTOs CIOs CISOs and engineering leaders.
• Established relationships across Australias digital native startup venture capital or technology ecosystem are highly regarded.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication executive presence and value-selling skills.
• Proficiency in modern sales software customer data environments and core systems such as Salesforce Tableau and Google Workspace.
• Thinks critically rather than reacting exercises judgment under uncertainty names risks honestly shows genuine empathy for customers as people and demonstrates visible curiosity in how they prepare sell and learn.
• Willingness to actively engage with AI tools and experiment with new ways of working.
• Ability to travel as required.

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares 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 weve 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. Heres the deal - we dont 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 youd like to be a part of Wed 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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