Channel Sales Professional We are looking for a seasoned channel sales professional to help us build out the channel organization in the Southeast and MidAtlantic regions. In this role, you'll identify and operationalize varied types of 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 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 Channel oriented opps.
Additional responsibilities will include:
Lead business planning and execution with partners and internal sales teams (e.g., QBRs, health checks, annual planning).Conduct joint partner territory planning with aligned sales segments.
Deliver internal partner training to direct sales teams to foster collaborative selling.
Drive pipeline creation and revenue through creative joint GTM activity with our channel and direct sales teams.
Build product and sales competency within core regional and national partners, influencing their GTM strategies to maximize partner-sourced pipeline.
Leverage data analytics and AI tooling to optimize and scale partner growth.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:5+ years in Software/SaaS/Security Sales & Channel management.3+ years of proven success developing and scaling a partner ecosystem (VARs, SIs, MSPs/MSSPs) within a SaaS model.
Understanding of cloud infrastructure ecosystem and cloud security is highly preferred.
Direct experience in onboarding and enabling resellers/SI's.
Experience working in a start-up environment.
Ability to travel 30-50% of the time within the assigned territory.
Technical competence strongly preferred.
Compensation:
This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare's Sales Compensation Plan. EquityThis 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 PlanTime OffFlexible 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!