Senior Named 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 Switzerland About the Role We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Named Account Executive to join our Swiss Sales Team, focused on the German-speaking market. In this senior role, your primary mission is new logo acquisition — identifying, pursuing, and closing net-new strategic enterprise accounts across German-speaking Switzerland — while also driving deep platform adoption and expansion within a defined portfolio of existing accounts. The ideal candidate possesses a sophisticated blend of enterprise sales expertise, executive presence, and genuine technical fluency, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to senior technical leaders including CISOs, CTOs, and Heads of Infrastructure. As a Named Account Executive, you will own your account portfolio end-to-end. You will build multi-year account plans, orchestrate virtual deal teams across Solution Engineers, Deal Desk, Legal, and Product, and position Cloudflare as a critical long-term platform partner for some of Switzerland's most strategic enterprises. You will engage at board and executive level, lead complex multi-stakeholder sales cycles, and consistently exceed new logo and expansion targets. In line with Cloudflare's AI-native culture, you will be expected to leverage AI tools actively in your daily workflow — from prospect research and executive outreach to account planning, meeting preparation, and pipeline management — using them as a genuine force multiplier, not an afterthought. Responsibilities • New Logo Acquisition: Drive the identification, pursuit, and closure of net-new strategic enterprise accounts as the primary focus of this role. Build a robust pipeline of high-value prospects through targeted executive outreach, ecosystem engagement, partner channels, and referrals. Consistently bring new logos onto the Cloudflare platform and exceed new business targets each quarter. • Strategic Account Planning: Develop and execute comprehensive, multi-year account plans for both net-new targets and existing named accounts, with clear prioritisation of new logo opportunities. Maintain a detailed, current view of each account's strategic priorities, buying processes, competitive landscape, and Cloudflare's position within them. • Executive Relationship Management: Build and sustain long-term, trusted relationships at CISO, CTO, CIO, and board level. Act as a genuine strategic advisor across the full lifecycle of the relationship — bringing proactive insight and a strong point of view, not just responding to RFPs or renewal triggers. • Complex Sales Cycle Leadership: Lead sophisticated, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales processes across legal, procurement, technical, and executive buying centres simultaneously. Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of enterprise buying behaviour and apply it to drive net-new deals forward with precision and appropriate urgency. • Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a thorough understanding of each prospect's and customer's technology environment — including cloud strategy, security posture, compliance requirements, and AI and ML infrastructure. Map Cloudflare's platform capabilities to these environments through relevant Reference Architectures, driving comprehensive platform adoption in place of point-solution sales. • Virtual Deal Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of Customer Engineers, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to manage and close complex, high-value opportunities. Proactively navigate blockers, maintain deal momentum, and ensure a consistently high-quality customer and prospect experience throughout. • AI-Powered Sales Execution: Leverage AI tools as a deliberate and consistent part of how you sell — applying them to prospect research, personalised executive outreach, account planning, stakeholder mapping, meeting preparation, pipeline analysis, and follow-up. Demonstrate the same AI-native mindset Cloudflare brings to its products in how you manage your own territory and time. • Digital Transformation & AI Positioning: Serve as a knowledgeable and credible partner to customers navigating digital and AI-driven transformation. Understand how AI adoption is reshaping enterprise infrastructure, compliance, and competitive dynamics — and position Cloudflare's platform capabilities, including AI Gateway, Workers AI, and Zero Trust for AI workload