Senior Account Executive, Strategic Pursuits, ANZ

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 Location: Melbourne / Sydney About the Role We are seeking an exceptionally accomplished and visionary Account Executive to join our Strategic Pursuits team, managing a focused portfolio of highly strategic accounts across ANZ. This is a role for a leader who will not only drive Cloudflare’s most strategic and complex platform sales but also innovate new business models within focused accounts. The ideal candidate possesses unparalleled strategic influence, a profound understanding of customer enterprise architecture across all four pillars (business, data, applications, technology), and the ability to proactively shape how Cloudflare integrates into and advances modern cloud operating models. As an Account Executive (Strategic Pursuits), you will consistently demonstrate the highest level of sales mastery, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a recognized industry authority, capable of contextualizing Cloudflare’s entire product suite within the broader security and business strategies of the largest enterprises. This role demands the ability to influence and engage at the highest executive levels, including CEOs, CFOs, and Board Members, while leading highly specialized virtual teams (VPs, SVPs, and cross-functional leaders) to proactively propose transformative new solutions and forge digital innovation partnerships that redefine industries. What You'll Do • Visionary Revenue & Business Model Creation: Architect and execute strategies to consistently exceed the most ambitious multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, specializing in closing complex platform sales and pioneering new business models within highly strategic accounts. • Precision Forecasting & Strategic Pipeline Leadership: Operate with unmatched accuracy in forecasting, proactively shaping and managing the strategic pipeline. Provide insights that set the stage for Cloudflare's future sales direction, influencing company-wide impact. • Shape Enterprise Architecture & Business Models: Apply mastery in understanding and influencing customer Enterprise Architecture across all four pillars (business, data, applications, technology). Critically analyze and map these to business models, strategically positioning Cloudflare within and actively shaping modern cloud operating models. • Ultimate Executive Engagement & Influence: Lead and orchestrate multiple, simultaneous, highly complex customer engagements across numerous business units. Expertly connect disparate needs to solidify platform sales and drive new business models. Proactively apply executive sponsorship programs, ensuring direct engagement and influence with CEOs, CFOs, and Board Members. • Advanced Virtual Team Leadership & Solution Incubation: Lead highly specialized virtual teams, including VPs, SVPs, and cross-functional leaders, to proactively propose and incubate groundbreaking new solutions for customers. Guide these teams to learn from past experiences, shaping the future strategy for Cloudflare’s offerings. • Digital Transformation & Industry Partnership Architect: Exhibit mastery in understanding the intricate nuances of digital transformation across key industries across the region. Fully grasp the strategic challenges and opportunities organizations face. Expertly identify market shifts, emerging technologies, regulatory priorities, and industry-specific needs to construct pioneering digital innovation partnerships between Cloudflare and its customers, providing mutual benefit and advancing entire industries. • Organizational Communication & Inspiration: Take highly complex information and distill it into clear, easy-to-understand language for broad audiences, both internal and external. Inspire others to learn from mistakes, foster continuous improvement, and take decisive action through ongoing coaching and feedback. • Long-Term Strategic Stewardship: Consistently articulate how decisions will impact Cloudflare many years into the future, demonstrating a willingness to trade short-term gains for significant, long-term organizational benefit. Build unwavering trust by sharing learnings and exemplifying a “Cloudflare first” mentality, inspiring followership across the company. • Operational Excellence & Business Model Innovation: Debunk the myth that choosing speed, quality, and price is limited to only two. Define