Named Sales Director, TOLA

Cloudflare•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Sales Director to help us invest and grow the TOLA Region, taking responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue and brand awareness. Based in the region, this role requires both strategic and hands-on leadership to navigate a modern, automated corporate landscape, build out the go-to-market strategy, and scale our sales team, market structure, and partner strategy. In this role, you will actively collaborate with clients, partners, and field teams to secure the enterprise market and build a better Internet.

Requirements

10+ years of direct B2B selling experience, specifically selling to large enterprise / named accounts ($1B+ annual revenue).
5+ years of direct sales management experience leading an enterprise field sales team.
Thorough and deep understanding and knowledge of IaaS, cloud technologies, computer networking, and/or security products or services.
Extensive experience managing longer, complex enterprise sales cycles alongside cross-functional technical teams.
Strong aptitude for learning technical concepts and terminology, including familiarity with modern automated workflows, AI-driven pipelines, or data-informed decision-making tools.
Proven experience selling into $1B+ Financial Services, Retail, Industrial, Energy, Media, and other major sectors.
Strong leadership, presentation, interpersonal communication (verbal and written), and organizational skills, with a comfort level working in a fast-paced, dynamically evolving technological environment.

Nice To Haves

Technical background in engineering, computer science, or Management Information Systems (MIS) is a plus.
Experience presenting or representing an enterprise technology brand at external conferences, media, and PR events.

Responsibilities

Drive regional sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, and outstanding execution of all regional go-to-market strategies.
Direct and scale regional cross-functional programs across 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 the Southwest enterprise team, driving local hiring needs by working with global functional leadership and recruiting resources.
Design, build, and execute regional go-to-market strategies 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.
Optimize the regional business cadence—including forecast calls, functional review meetings, deal reviews, and customer account reviews—by leveraging automated review pipelines and internal automated data layers to eliminate manual task overhead.

Benefits

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.
Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.
If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
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.
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