Senior Territory Account Executive - Shanghai

The role

This role involves driving growth by landing and expanding a portfolio of assigned customers in East China. You will manage sales pipelines, cultivate strategic relationships, and execute territory plans to exceed revenue targets.

What you will do

• Own and execute a comprehensive territory plan to achieve and exceed sales and revenue targets.
• Cultivate long-term strategic relationships with key accounts and partners.
• Lead executive-level transformation narratives.
• Leverage top partners to co-sell and drive forecast and pipeline cadences.
• Understand customer network architectures and translate solutions to drive platform sales.
• Manage contract negotiations and structure platform-level commercial commitments.
• Stay engaged through onboarding, adoption, and the first renewal.
• Partner with Customer Engineers and Professional Services on deployment plans.
• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline using internal tools and AI-assisted research.
• Maintain high standards in pipeline discipline, CRM hygiene and forecasting accuracy.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience selling technology solutions in high-growth technology firms.
• Demonstrated track record of consistently meeting and exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Proficient in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and multi-threaded land and expand strategies.
• Strong understanding of computer networking, cloud security technology, and how enterprise infrastructure adapts to automated data workflows.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and value selling skills.
• Proficiency in modern sales software, customer data environments, and core systems (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite).
• Ability to travel as required.

Nice to have

• Thinks critically rather than reacting, exercises judgment under uncertainty, names risks honestly, shows genuine empathy for customers as people, can point to relationships built over time on trust,
• Willingness to actively engage with AI tools and experiment.
• Cultural fluency for assigned markets; language proficiency where required.

Before you apply

• Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.
• This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws.
• Any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

About the company

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties. The company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.