Senior Named Account Executive - Japan

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Tokyo
Hybrid
7+ Years Experience
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
Helping Build a Better Internet
The Role
The Enterprise Account Executive in Japan role at Cloudflare involves driving sales in Japan, creating value propositions for Cloudflare services, managing contract negotiations, maintaining a sales pipeline, recruiting partners, and ensuring customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate should have a sales and technical background with experience selling network security or SaaS to enterprise accounts.
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About the Department
Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, and Customer Success - 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
We are looking for amazing people to join our rapidly growing Asia Pacific sales team. Based in Tokyo and you will drive sales in Japan. You will be expected to travel to your territories as required. The ideal candidate will have an existing network of contacts within Japan: enterprise companies within your territory as well as relevant channel partners such as Systems Integrators, Value Added Resellers, MSP's.
The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive engagement with junior through senior levels within Cloudflare's target customers.

  • Develop and execute upon Sales strategy/plan for Japan
  • Drive sales in Japan to achieve revenue targets
  • Create & articulate compelling value propositions for Cloudflare services
  • Manage contract negotiations
  • Maintain a robust sales pipeline
  • Recruit, develop and work with partners to extend reach & drive adoption
  • Ensure customer satisfaction
  • 60% travel


Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

  • Bachelors degree required.
  • Fluent in Japanese and English
  • Minimum 8 years direct experience selling network security or SaaS
  • Direct experience selling to enterprise accounts acting as lead seller and relationship owner
  • Direct experience from established global technology vendors
  • Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus
  • Basic understanding of computer networking and "how the internet works"
  • Strong presentation and interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written) as well as organizational skills


Details
Term of employment - Indefinite
Probation period - 6 months
Place of employment -WeWork Marunouchi Kitaguchi (Suite 07-121) Building 9F, 1-6-5 MarunouchiChiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Working hours - 9am to 6pm
Rest period - Noon to 1pm
Holidays - Saturday, Sunday and National Holidays
Overtime - Overtime work may be required
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
3,300 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Cloudflare, Inc. is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s suite of products protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 awarded by Reuters Events for Global Responsible Business in 2020, named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2021, and ranked among Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022.

Why Work With Us

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