Principal Partner Account Manager, Pacific Northwest

Cloudflare • San Francisco, CA

9h

About The Position

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: The preferred location for this role is Seattle, Washington or Pacific Northwest region We are looking for a seasoned channel sales professional to help us build out the channel organization in the Pacific Northwest region, to include partner management in WA, OR, AK, ID, WY, MT In this role, you’ll identify 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 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees