Sales Director, SLED (Northeast) at Cloudflake

East Portal Distributed Camping Area, Colorado, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Mar, 26

Salary

460000.0

Posted On

06 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Sales Leadership, SLED Market, Customer Service, Sales Methodology, Account Management, Forecasting, Pipeline Management, Network Performance, Security, Corporate Networking, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, SASE, Interpersonal Communication, Presentation Skills, Entrepreneurial Spirit

Industry

Computer and Network Security

Description

About Us 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. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! Available Locations: NYC OR Broader Northeast About the Role Our US Public Sector Segment is investing in our U.S. SLED Region Go To Market team to grow Cloudflare’s market share across State, Local, and Education customers and prospects. While an emerging market for Cloudflare, the SLED Regional Manager will have a foundation of successful sales and deployments across government and education to build upon. What you’ll do As the SLED Regional Manager: you will lead our US SLED Mid Market team 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 volume 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. Examples of desired skills, knowledge and qualifications Minimum 7 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 relationships with partner communities working with SLED organizations. Proven ability to sell solutions to 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. Compensation For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $376,000 - $460,000. 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 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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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Responsibilities

The SLED Regional Manager will lead the US SLED Mid Market team, focusing on driving revenue growth and brand awareness while maintaining Cloudflare's culture. Responsibilities include organizational planning, customer service, and executing regional go-to-market programs.