Senior Manager, SLED Enterprise Sales (Northeast)

April 26

Cloudflare

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💰 $150M Series E on 2019-03

Description

• As the SLED Regional Manager you will lead our US SLED Northeast Region including both Enterprise and Mid Market sales motions, reporting directly to the Head of US SLED Sales. We are seeking a highly experienced and talented SLED Go To Market Leader to help us manage and grow the organization with overall responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue, hiring and brand awareness while maintaining the Cloudflare Culture. Change Agents, Builders, and Evangelists interested in continuing Cloudflare’s journey towards becoming a world class SLED GTM organization will thrive in this role and environment. • Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service, and outstanding execution of all regional go-to-market programs (sales, channel, customer success, solutions engineering, business development, support and field marketing). • Lead a diverse sales team supporting both large scale enterprise capture opportunities and velocity sales motions across State, Local and Education (HiEd and K-12) accounts • Continue to grow and build the U.S. Sales team and drive the hiring needs through partnering with global functional leadership and recruiting resources. • Adopt and influence the company's sales methodology/process and drive best practices on selling, forecasting, and account management. • Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution. • Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by the sales organization. • Drive business cadence for forecast calls, functional review meetings, deal review, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide kick offs. • Represent Cloudflare as appropriate at external conferences, media and PR events. Maintain relationships with the NASCIO, NASTD, and other related associations. • Travel within the U.S. will be expected.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of senior level sales leadership experience, coupled with 10+ years of selling experience to a wide variety of SLED accounts. • Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles but driving a quarterly cadence. • Experience driving velocity sales activities within the SLED market. • Established customer relationships within the SLED market • Established relationships with partner communities working with SLED organizations. • Proven ability to sell solutions to large strategic customers. • Strong understanding of sales process/methodology, pipeline management, accurate forecasting and delivering results quarterly. • Individuals that have been promoted to sales leadership within companies is a plus with a proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability. • Experience in network performance and security, “how the Internet works”, corporate networking and SD-WAN as well as industry concepts such as Zero Trust and SASE. • Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (technical background in engineering, computer science, or IT is a plus). • Strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills. • Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors. • Self-motivated, entrepreneurial spirit, and start-up experience are a plus. • Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created 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. • Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one. • 1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 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.