Your role will be to build champions and enable technical teams alongside our Benelux sales organisation to drive pipeline and close deals. As the technical advocate inside Cloudflare, you will work closely with teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Support and our channel partners to ensure our customers succeed with Cloudflare security, reliability, and performance solutions.

We are looking for someone with strong experience in pre-sales, partner and account management, and excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, suited for both technical and executive-level engagement. You should be comfortable speaking about the Cloudflare vision with all audiences.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Build and maintain long-term technical relationships with prospects, customers and ecosystem organisations across Benelux through demonstrating value, enablement, and uncovering new areas of potential revenue
• Drive technical solution design conversations through use case qualification and collaborative technical wins through demonstrations and proofs-of-concept
• Develop passionate technical champions within the technology ranks of your accounts, helping them drive sales for identified opportunities and build revenue pipeline
• Evangelize and represent Cloudflare through technical thought leadership and expertise
• Be the voice of the market internally at Cloudflare, engaging with and influencing Product and Engineering teams to meet the needs of your accounts and their customers

You will travel requirement in the Benelux to support engagements, attend conferences and industry events, and collaborate with Cloudflare teammates.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience include:

• Fluency in Dutch and English (verbal and written)
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level stakeholders
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills (whiteboarding, demos, executive briefings)
• Experience managing technical sales cycles end-to-end
• Ability to articulate business value and ROI of technical solutions, not just features
• Experience working within an integrated account team (alongside Account Executives, Customer Success, BDRs, and channel partners)
• Networking technologies including TCP/IP, UDP, DNS (authoritative and recursive, DNSSEC), IPv4/IPv6, BGP routing, Autonomous Systems, subnetting
• Tunneling and connectivity: GRE, IPsec, MPLS, SDWAN
• Cloud networking concepts: VPCs, peering, interconnect
• DDoS attack types (L3/L4/L7) and mitigation strategies
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule configuration and tuning
• VPN concepts and their limitations relative to Zero Trust approaches
• API security: API Gateway, rate limiting, schema validation, abuse prevention
• Bot management concepts and detection techniques
• SASE concepts and Zero Trust Networking architectures (ZTNA, CASB, SWG, DLP, RBI as integrated platform)
• Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs. traditional VPN architecture
• HTTP technologies and reverse proxy architecture: WAF, CDN, caching mechanics
• Detailed understanding of the flow from user to application, including hybrid cloud architectures
• Working knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (architecture patterns, native security tooling, VPC/peering models)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts (e.g. Terraform)
• Cloudflare Workers and the edge compute model (JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Familiarity with related primitives: KV, Object storage, serverless compute
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape across Cloudflare's product areas
• Understanding of why customers move from on-premises appliances to cloud-delivered security
• Awareness of relevant industry verticals: Financial Services, eCommerce, Gaming, Media, SaaS, Healthcare

We value intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and a collaborative spirit. On the Solutions Engineering team, you will find an environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other. If you are passionate about technology and look forward to helping customers and ecosystem organisations realise the full promise of Cloudflare, we'd love to hear from you.

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

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Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.

Plaid's Fintech Sales team is responsible for our relationships with some of the most important and fastest-growing companies in financial services. Many of these companies have long-standing relationships with Plaid, and this team's mandate is to deepen those partnerships , expanding product adoption, enabling customer growth, and ensuring Plaid remains the infrastructure provider of choice as these customers scale.

You will lead an established, high-performing team of Named Account Executives who manage Plaid's largest fintech accounts. This is not a greenfield build , it's a team with real momentum, strong customer relationships, and meaningful revenue. The opportunity is to raise the bar further: strengthen Plaid's market-leading position in fintech by driving deeper product adoption across existing accounts, winning strategic new logos, and developing the AEs on your team into consistently elite performers.

The primary motion is expansion. The majority of your AEs' accounts already use Plaid , the job is to grow those relationships through new products, new use cases, and new business units, while also adding competitive new logos to the book. You'll be in deals with your team as a coach and escalation point, helping AEs navigate multi-stakeholder cycles from technical champion to economic buyer, without taking ownership away from them.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 6–8 Named Account Executives focused on Plaid's largest fintech accounts, driving growth through expansion of existing relationships and competitive new logo acquisition.

• Coach AEs to identify and drive expansion opportunities proactively , new products, new use cases, new business units , rather than waiting for inbound signals.

• Build and refine the account strategy for Plaid's top fintech customers alongside your AEs, including executive value messaging, pitch positioning, and coordinated go-to-market efforts with Marketing.

• Grow existing accounts by driving multi-product adoption and deepening executive-level relationships.

• Attain consumption-based revenue targets through a disciplined, data-driven pipeline operating rhythm.

• Develop your team through structured 1:1s, deal reviews, and skill-specific coaching that closes the gap between strong performers and elite ones.

• Maintain a high recruiting bar , assess and close exceptional AE talent as the team grows, selecting for people who thrive in an expansion-oriented selling motion.

• Manage performance with transparency , set clear expectations, act early when someone isn't tracking, and make tough calls when necessary.

• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, Account Management, Legal, and Commercial teams to maintain a consistently high win rate and remove friction from deal cycles.

• Engage directly in strategic deals as a coach and escalation point, while ensuring your AEs retain ownership and develop their own executive-level selling capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of sales experience in B2B SaaS or platform/infrastructure sales, with meaningful exposure to fintech, payments, or financial services.

• 5+ years of frontline sales management experience leading teams of quota-carrying AEs.

• Demonstrated track record of coaching account executives to close and grow accounts in the $100K–$1M+ ARR range, with specific experience in expansion and land-and-expand motions.

• Experience leading a team oriented around named accounts or industry verticals , not just geographic territories.

• Strong data discipline , you use pipeline and forecast data to change what your team does, not just report it upward.

• Proven ability to operate cross-functionally, influencing product, legal, and marketing without positional authority.

• Outstanding communication and executive presence, with experience managing the sales cycle from technical champion to C-suite economic buyer.

• A coaching-first leadership style , you develop your people through the deals, not by taking the deals away from them.

Nice to Have

• Experience selling API-first or developer-focused products.

• Familiarity with consumption-based or usage-based pricing models.

• Background in open banking, identity verification, payments, or adjacent fintech infrastructure.

• Experience managing hybrid or distributed teams across multiple offices.

Additional Information

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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