Location: This role may be based in the Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA or Denver, CO locations. About the Department
Channel Account Managers, Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, 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.
What you'll do
We are looking for a seasoned channel sales professional to help us build out the channel organization in SLED
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 Channel Sales 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 Channel oriented opps.
Additional responsibilities will include:
- 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:
- For Colorado hires: Estimated annual salary of $239,000 - $293,000.
- For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $256,000 - $312,000.
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
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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