Senior Renewals Account Manager - German Speaking

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.

About the Department

Renewals Account Managers, Customer Success Managers, Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, and Sales Operations - 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.

Location: Lisbon, Portugal or Munich, Germany

What you'll do

As a Senior Renewal Account Manager, you will be responsible for owning and maximizing renewal value of Cloudflare’s largest Enterprise customers. You will do this by building and leveraging C-level relationships and presenting and articulating ROI with key stakeholders.

You will use your strong business acumen and technical understanding to work alongside your account team to articulate business value and make compelling recommendations to customers.

You will leverage your experience to accurately plan, forecast, and prioritize work in order to maximize outcomes.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Commercial owner and driver of renewal including maintaining and reporting an accurate weekly forecast

• Customer engagement from onboarding through the entire customer lifecycle

• Negotiate and execute renewal contracts in accordance with customer objectives

• Able to prioritize effectively to handle multiple deals at the same time

• Analyze data and leverage tools to identify opportunities and business value

• Drive strong alignment with the Sales team, contributing to team forecasting, planning, and targets

• Own or be an active participant in several customer touch points including: Business Value Justification meetings, Business Reviews, and Renewal Meetings

• Develop and maintain long-term relationships with stakeholders in your account portfolio.

• < 25% travel

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Fluency in German

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Inside or Field sales or Renewal management

• 2+ years relative industry experience

• Expertise in SaaS retention and sales process

• Experience working with senior or C-level customer stakeholders

• Excellent knowledge of value driven sales

• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to creatively achieve resolutions

• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks in an efficient and professional manner

• Strong Communication skills both written and verbal and the ability to present to multiple different personas

• Demonstrated strong negotiation skills and ability to influence and navigate objections to achieve win-win customer outcomes

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is preferred

Compensation

• For Germany based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €88,000 - €121,000.

• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €63,000 - €87,000.

• The final offer will be inclusive of time exemption, in alignment with the applicable law and collective bargaining agreements.

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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