Aimed at senior security and networking professionals who excel in consultative sales and technical expertise within the SASE/SSE domain.
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Original posting from Cloudflare via Greenhouse
About Us
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.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. 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.
This role will be located in either Austin or located in our Central/East regions
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Product Specialists, 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.
Our Cloudflare One Go-To-Market Specialist team provides deep subject matter expertise on converging Network and Security services in our Cloudflare One (CF1) portfolio, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Security Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), Data Protection (including DLP), and Email Security (CES).
What you’ll do
As a Senior Cloudflare One GTM Specialist you will be responsible for growing CloudflareOne (CF1) revenue and product adoption. In this role, you will serve as the segment lead for CF1 sales. You will advise the sales leaders on opportunities and programs to grow CF1 revenue, partner with the technical sales teams, enable account executives on product positioning and competitive intelligence, grow partner engagement around CF1, and support strategic deals from discovery to close. The ideal candidate possesses a consultative mindset, strong selling skills, and a deep technical background to drive engagement internally among the sales organization and externally with decision-makers and influencers within security, networking, and IT and operations.
Present to strategic customers as an expert of our SASE, SSE, AI Security, and Email Security solutions.
Align Director and C-Level perceived business value with Cloudflare solutions in the transformational objectives of securing remote work, safe AI adoption, corporate network modernization, adoption of SASE/SSE, and data protection
Develop and advise on sales strategies and pipeline generation in partnership with regional and country sales leaders.
Provide regular business reviews to the management team highlighting pipeline health, attainment progress and challenges to closing business
Generate a succinct feedback loop with PM, PMM, Demand Generation, Enablement, Programs, and Partner Organization to deliver relevant CF1 anecdotes and data points.
The Senior Cloudflare One GTM Specialist Role is a consultative sales excellence role that directly supports sales delivery of regional CF1 quota. In order to be successful, you will need to become a thought leader, trusted advisor, and spokesperson for Cloudflare One - Cloudflare's SASE platform.
Requirements
Minimum 4 years of experience selling or supporting the sales of cyber security, networking, identity management, cloud or SaaS solutions.
Technical expertise in SASE, SSE, AI Security, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP, SD-WAN, and Email Security
Experience building territory plans, prospecting and bringing in new logos in a competitive market
Knowledge of key market players/competitors in the software defined networking, zero trust and cybersecurity solution spaces.
Familiarity with AI concepts and terminology, specifically related to MCP servers and Agents
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and develop/execute corresponding objectives.
Strong verbal and written communications, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.
Bachelor’s Degree
10-20% travel
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $146,000 - $257,000
For California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated salary of $161,000 - $287,000
For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $303,000
This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.
Equity
This 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 Plan
Time Off
Flexible 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
Source: Cloudflare careers (Greenhouse)