Principal Partner Account Manager, Heartland Region

Available Locations: Chicago, IL What you'll do:
We are looking for a seasoned partner sales professional to help us build out the partner organization in the Chicago, Illinois region.
In this role, you'll identify, recruit and operationalize new reseller and systems integrators partner organizations to help expand Cloudflare's sales team reach within an assigned territory. You will build a regional partner business plan with quantified goals and milestones to achieve partner sourced revenue metrics to meet all quarterly sales requirements.
As a Principal Partner Account Manager, you will work with a strategic group of partners in your territory and build a plan to drive alignment, enablement and pipeline generation efforts. You will work with partner stakeholders to drive sales enablement and coordinate technical training of Cloudflare's solutions, work with respective field teams on demand gen initiatives and campaigns, as well as working with direct sales on various partner oriented opps.
Additional responsibilities

• Partner Business planning and execution.
• Joint partner territory planning with aligned sales segments.
• Providing internal partner training to sales teams.
• Create pipeline revenue by creating joint GTM activity with our channel and direct sales teams
• Develop product and sales competency within our core set of regional and national partners, influencing their GTM and sales strategy to lead partner sourced pipeline
• Share analytics with executive and technical champions

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 7+ years in Software/SaaS/Security Sales & Channel management.
• 5+ years of experience and a proven track record developing a partner ecosystem VARs, SI's, MSP's/MSSP's, within a SaaS model.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure ecosystem and cloud security is highly preferred.
• Direct experience in recruiting, onboarding and enabling resellers/SI's.
• Experience working in a start-up environments.
• Ability to travel 30-50% of the time.
• Technical competence strongly preferred.

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Illinois, Estimated annual salary of $270,000 - $330,000.
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.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave