This is a Remote Based role in the Mountain Time Zone of U.S. 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 our channel organization. This is a great opportunity to play a critical role in establishing and growing Cloudflare's presence in the US market.
In this role, you'll identify, recruit and operationalize new reseller and systems integrators partner organizations to help expand Cloudflare's indirect sales 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 develop a comprehensive regional partner map, outlining target partners to recruit. 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:
- Maintain and report an accurate sales forecast in SFDC.
- Manage contract negotiations.
- Maintain a robust sales pipeline.
- Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
- Ensure customer satisfaction.
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.
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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
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