Principal Partner Strategy and Operations Manager

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.

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: Austin

About The Role

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Partner Strategy and Operations Manager to support the AMER Partner organization. This is a high impact role for an experienced strategy and operations professional who is looking for an opportunity to directly impact channel strategy and operational execution. In this role you will work closely with the Americas Vice President of Partner Sales, the Partner Account Teams, Sales, and Marketing to develop and build out the channel strategy for the Americas. You will own quarterly and yearly planning cycles, quota setting, channel sales process optimization, and pipeline reporting.

The ideal candidate will be proficient in developing data sets, analyzing metrics to identify trends and opportunities to make strategic recommendations to drive actions to grow the Americas channel ecosystem. As a trusted advisor, you will have an opportunity to lead the transformation and growth of our channel by growing partner routes to market and build the operational backbone of our partner business for scale.

This role is a great fit for you if you are a self-starter, able to thrive in an environment that requires operating with a high degree of autonomy, and are driven by the opportunity to make a significant impact in a high growth, fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of the strategic business drivers and ability to maintain/use interactive dashboards and visualizations tools, such as Tableau or Google Sheets, to present operational insights relevant for business growth
• Ability to analyze historical data, implement tools and systems to automate and optimize channel operations processes and provide strategic recommendations to Partner Leadership
• Provide proactive support to manage partner performance across the sales cycle including pipeline, closed deals, performance data and velocity of deals
• Building financial models including the use of Excel/Google Sheet functions like INDEX, MATCH, and VLOOKUP, coupled with power pivots to automate processes and enhance efficiency in data analysis and reporting.
• Provide operational support and guidance to the Americas Partner Leadership Team to drive strategy, operational excellence, forecasting/pipeline accuracy, and provide insights while adhering and aligning to globally consistent Partner Operations process and Rule of Engagement.
• Collaborate with the other members of the partner operations team to drive quarterly and annual planning process, define quarterly and annual targets for regions, managers and team members
• Oversee strategic focus partners and nurture new partner relationships with emphasis on contract negotiation, optimization of partner performance, and partner program compliance
• Contribute and enforce internal and external facing channel rules of engagement
• Define Americas specific KPIs, metrics, dashboards and operational cadences to manage the health of the partner business and achieve annual goals while aligning to the global standards set forth by the Partner Operations team.
• Own and Lead strategic cross functional initiatives and projects, to accelerate our partner revenue and pipeline growth
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence around managing partner deal registrations, pipeline and opportunities

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in partner operations, sales operations, partners sales, partner management, partner marketing or programs
• Experience in partner operations, experience with various routes-to-market is preferred
• Experience working with and/or partner programs such as Resellers, MSSPs, GSIs, Distributors, System Integrators, Technology Alliance, GSPs
• Experience working as a business partner to a sales leader
• Strong understanding of how multi-tier partner programs operate
• Strong quantitative skills and high data fluency
• Proficient with Salesforce and Google suite, especially with Google Sheets
• Creative problem solver with strong attention to detail and a drive to build something better
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter with a strong ability to operate in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision
• Strong ability to influence stakeholders at middle and senior management levels, internally and externally

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 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

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