Director of Sales, Named (Toronto)

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.

Available Locations: Toronto, Ontario

About the Department

The Cloudflare sales team is comprised of Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together to acquire customers and help them adopt Cloudflare technologies to create great Internet-enabled experiences.

The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real security and performance challenges while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free services to millions in our community.

What you'll do

We are looking for an experienced Sales Director to lead and grow the Enterprise and Public Sector business in Ontario with responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue and brand awareness in the region. Based in the Greater Toronto Area and reporting directly to the Canadian VP, the Sales Director will require both strategic and hands-on leadership skills to lead the go-to-market strategy, including hiring, leading and growing the sales team, building pipeline, and driving sales to grow the business in the region. In this role you will work actively with prospects, customers, partners and field sales professionals to sell and close deals to build the region.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Design, build and execute strategies for the Region in collaboration with regional and global functional leaders
• Lead and grow the Central Canada Enterprise and Public Sector (Named) sales team working with global functional leaders and recruiting resources.
• Serve as the local point person for all Named functions in Canada including customer relationships, pipeline development, account management, sales and partnerships.
• Drive business cadence for forecast calls, business reviews, deal reviews, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide meetings.
• Lead programs and campaigns - working across sales, marketing, customer success, solutions engineering, business development and support - to drive awareness, pipeline and sales results.
• Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service and outstanding execution of all regional sales and go-to-market strategies.
• Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all Regional operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution.
• Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by team members.
• Outstanding leadership that inspires interpersonal effectiveness, develops talent and effects change. Willing and able to be a “doer” and “influencer”.
• Represent Cloudflare at external conferences and events.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of direct B2B sales experience, selling to large Enterprise accounts
• 5+ years of direct sales management experience leading an Enterprise field sales team.
• Experience managing and coaching long, complex, high value Enterprise sales cycles
• Experience selling into top tier accounts in key verticals including Financial Services, Retail, Industrial. Energy and Media.
• Understanding of IaaS, Networking and Information Security services.
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science or MIS a plus).
• Strong leadership, presentation, interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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