Senior Territory Account Executive

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.

Available Locations

Spain

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Territory Account Executive to join our Iberia Sales Team. In this role, you will be pivotal in driving growth across your assigned territory in Spain by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of existing customers and strategically acquiring new logos.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong blend of sales acumen and technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders, such as Heads or VPs of Networking, Security, and Infrastructure.

As a Territory Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate proficiency across all sales activities, ensuring accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistent achievement of 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 understand complex customer IT architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

In line with Cloudflare’s AI-native culture, you will be expected to leverage AI tools actively in your daily workflow—from account research and outreach to meeting preparation and pipeline management—using them as a genuine productivity multiplier, not an afterthought.

Responsibilities

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Strategic Revenue Generation: Develop and execute effective territory and account plans to consistently exceed sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion across your assigned accounts in Spain.

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Expert Pipeline Management and Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a strong understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.

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AI-Powered Sales Execution: Leverage AI tools as a deliberate and consistent part of how you sell—applying them to account research, personalised outreach, executive meeting preparation, pipeline analysis, and follow-up drafting. Demonstrate the same AI-native mindset Cloudflare brings to its products in how you manage your territory and time.

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Deep Customer and IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a thorough understanding of customers’ IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.

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Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organisation. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare’s platform sale, actively involving and influencing senior technical executives.

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Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of regional specialists, Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.

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Digital Transformation Authority: Act as a trusted authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers—such as new offering development and enhanced customer capabilities—and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.

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Compelling Value Creation: Articulate 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.

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Advanced Negotiation and Closure: Lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate strong closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.

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Trusted Advisor and Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, supporting deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of their work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organisation.

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Organisational Impact and Leadership: 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. Contribute to Cloudflare’s broader sales organisation while elevating the work of others through diverse perspectives and strategic thinking.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

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5+ years of experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B sales model, with a significant track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales quotas.

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Experience managing a defined territory or portfolio of accounts, balancing new-logo acquisition with retention and expansion of existing customers.

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Knowledge of, or experience selling into, the Spanish market, with an understanding of its business and technology landscape.

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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.

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Proven ability to understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.

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Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams—including Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal—to drive complex deals to closure.

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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.

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Demonstrated use of AI tools in a sales context, such as account intelligence, outreach personalisation, pipeline management, or meeting preparation. You can speak specifically to how AI has made you faster, sharper, or more effective in a previous role.

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Strong negotiation skills, with a track record of closing large, complex new-business and expansion deals.

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Expert-level sales acumen, including proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and account-expansion strategies.

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Knowledge of digital transformation trends and their impact on customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.

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Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.

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Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.

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Proficiency in sales and business intelligence platforms and methodologies, such as Salesforce, Tableau, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and MEDDPICC.

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Bachelor’s degree required; a technical background, such as engineering, computer science, or management information systems, is highly preferred.

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Ability to travel within Spain and internationally as required to engage with customers and internal teams.

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Language Skills: Full professional fluency in Spanish and English, both written and spoken.

Compensation

For Spain based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €114,000 - €156,000.

This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

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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