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.

As a Cloudflare Director, Major Account Sales, you will focus on leading a team of strategic account executive and account executives. You and your team will grow our market share amongst Major Enterprise companies in Japan.

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed quarterly team revenue targets
• Partner with Recruiting to attract and hire top sales talent
• Manage contract negotiations and salesforce reporting
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Strategic Account Executives and Account Executives.
• Provide strategic direction to the sales organization and support to sales representatives as they manage deals from first contact to close
• Work on the continuous improvement of sales processes and procedures

Requirements

• A proven track record of sales achievement as a sales representative
• Experience managing a team of quota carrying sales talent
• Experience directly managing a pipeline of complex, large deals
• Exemplary communication skills, both written and verbal, with confidence to develop and present ideas to varying levels of audiences
• Deep understanding of the sales process as it relates to Large Enterprise and Mid market companies
• Hands-on leader that strikes a balance between strategic vision and tactical execution

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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

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Responsibilities:

• Own and grow revenue generated through SIer channels by developing joint go-to-market strategies, co-selling motions, and enablement programs with Japan's top system integrators
• Build and execute partner territory plans, identifying and prioritising relationships across tier-1 and regional SIers — including firms across IT consulting, systems integration, and managed services practices
• Lead strategic engagement with senior SIer leadership — including practice heads, solution architects, pre-sales directors, and partner managers — building the technical confidence and commercial alignment needed to close enterprise deals
• Orchestrate internal teams (Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Partnerships, Marketing) to deliver enablement resources, joint solution frameworks, and go-to-market collateral that equips SIer partners to position and deploy Anthropic's AI solutions effectively
• Act as the primary escalation and support point for SIer partners navigating complex enterprise opportunities, ensuring deal momentum and customer satisfaction across the full sales cycle

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of enterprise sales or partner management experience in Japan, with significant direct experience working with or selling through system integrators in the technology sector
• A deep understanding of how Japan's SIer ecosystem operates — including how SIers source, evaluate, and commit to vendor partnerships, and how they structure solutions for their enterprise clients
• A track record of building high-trust, mutually beneficial relationships with SIer organisations, driving consistent revenue through channel partnerships rather than direct sales alone
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, multi-layered SIer stakeholder environments — balancing the needs of the SIer's internal leadership, their end customers, and Anthropic's own business objectives
• Proven experience developing and executing partner enablement programs — including technical training, sales toolkits, and co-marketing initiatives — that meaningfully increase a partner's ability to sell and deliver
• A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic 'roll up your sleeves' mentality — you are a true team player who thrives in ambiguous, startup-like environments
• A strategic, analytical approach to evaluating and prioritising SIer partnerships combined with patient, relationship-focused execution
• A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and responsibly for broad benefit
• Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary and commission structure commensurate with experience
• Equity participation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid work model with flexibility
• Access to cutting-edge AI technology and world-class research team

Logistics

• Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals through collaboration and open communication.

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