Sales Director, Mid-Atlantic

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: Washington DC, Maryland, OR Virginia

About the Role

Our North America Enterprise Segment is investing in our Mid-Atlantic Region go to market team to grow Cloudflare’s market share with large ($1B+ annual revenue) customers and prospects. Cloudflare has had great success bringing Fortune 1000 companies onto our platform and this team will do that with more focus, faster pace and higher long term growth expectations.

What you'll do

We are looking for an experienced Sales Leader to help us invest and grow the Greater New England area with responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue and brand awareness in the region. Based in the Northeast area, the Regional Sales Leader will require both strategic and hands-on leadership to build out the go-to-market strategy, manage and grow the sales team, market structure and partner strategy. In this role you will be asked to actively work with clients, partners and field sales reps to sell and close deals while building out the region.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service, and outstanding execution of all regional go-to-market strategies.
• programs (sales, customer success, solutions engineering, business development, support and field marketing).
• Serve as the local point person for all functions regarding executive relationships, key partnerships and account management.
• Grow and build Northeast team and drive the local hiring needs by working with global functional leadership and recruiting resources.
• Design, build and execute strategies for the Northeast Region in collaboration with regional and global functional leaders.
• Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all Regional operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution.
• Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by team members.
• Outstanding leadership - inspire interpersonal effectiveness, develop talent and effect change. Willing and able to be a “doer” and “influencer”.
• 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.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 10+ years of direct B2B selling experience, selling to large enterprise accounts.
• 10+ years of direct sales management experience leading an enterprise field sales team.
• Thorough and deep understanding and knowledge of IaaS, computer networking and network security services.
• Extensive experience managing longer, complex enterprise sales cycles.
• Strong aptitude for learning technical concepts/terminology (technical background in engineering, computer science or MIS a plus).
• Experience selling into $1B+ Financial Services, Retail, Industrial, Energy, Media and other companies.
• Strong leadership, presentation, interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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