Head of Enterprise Sales

As the Head of North America Enterprise Sales you will lead our Enterprise sales organization reporting directly to the Head of Sales Americas.

We are seeking a highly experienced and talented Sales Leader to help us manage and grow the organization with overall responsibility for driving Cloudflares revenue, hiring and brand awareness while maintaining the Cloudflare Culture.

The Head of Enterprise Sales will require both strategic and hands on leadership to continue to build out the go-to-market plan which includes; managing a distributed workforce, scaling hiring, leveraging partners and collaborating with Marketing and Product Management to drive growth in the U.S.

Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service, and outstanding execution of all regional go-to-market programs (sales, customer success, solutions engineering, business development, support and field marketing).

Continue to grow and build the U.S.

Sales team and drive the hiring needs through partnering with global functional leadership and recruiting resources.

Adopt and influence the companies sales methodology/process and drive best practices on selling, forecasting, and account management.

Continuously design, build and execute strategies for the U.S.

in collaboration with various regional and global functional leaders.

Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution.

Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by the sales organization.

Outstanding leadership
– inspiring interpersonal effectiveness to lead teams, develop talent and effect change.

Willing and able to be a “doer” and “influencer”.

Drive business cadence for forecast calls, functional review meetings, deal review, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide kick offs.

Represent Cloudflare as appropriate at external conferences, media and PR events.

Maintain relationships with Economic Bureau of Development and other related association.

Travel within the U.S.

will be expected.

Examples of desired skills, knowledge and qualifications 15 years of senior level sales leadership experience, coupled with 10 years of direct B2B selling experience to large enterprise accounts.

Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles but driving a quarterly cadence.

Proven ability to sell solutions to large strategic customers.

Strong understanding of sales process/methodology, pipeline management, accurate forecasting and delivering results quarterly.

Individuals that have been promoted to sales leadership within companies is a plus with a proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability.

Experience selling into Financial Services, Media/Publishing and Technology companies.

Experience in network security, and “how the internet works”.

Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (technical background in engineering, computer science, or IT is a plus).

Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.

Excellent presentation skills to executives & individual contributors.

Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit.

Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.

Bachelors degree required.