The Senior Sales Manager oversees Account Executives in the Federal Civilian market, driving sales through engagement with technical and non-technical buyers while managing team performance against sales targets.
Available Locations: DC Metro Preferred
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, 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.
What you'll do
We are looking for a Senior Sales Manager to manage a team of Account Executives for the Federal Civilian market for US. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales management and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.
This leadership role is within the Public Sector team (Federal Civilian segment), and focuses on both the acquisition of new FedCiv accounts, as well as the expansion of existing Customer accounts. You will manage a team of account executives and the expectation is for all sellers within this segment is to drive customer engagement from technical professionals through to executive levels, and across Security, Network, Development and Infrastructure teams, as an avenue to building and converting thousands of prospective customers.
This role extends beyond analyzing and reporting; we take pride in helping to design and implement solutions to the different challenges that can arise in our fast paced and innovative environment.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Compensation
For Washington DC, based hires: The expected salary range for this role is $340,000-$416,000 , depending on experience and qualifications. Job level and compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience and alignment to role expectations.
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
About the Department
Account Executives, Channel Account Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, 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.
What you'll do
We are looking for a Senior Sales Manager to manage a team of Account Executives for the Federal Civilian market for US. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales management and technical background that enables them to drive engagement at all levels with technical and non-technical buyers.
This leadership role is within the Public Sector team (Federal Civilian segment), and focuses on both the acquisition of new FedCiv accounts, as well as the expansion of existing Customer accounts. You will manage a team of account executives and the expectation is for all sellers within this segment is to drive customer engagement from technical professionals through to executive levels, and across Security, Network, Development and Infrastructure teams, as an avenue to building and converting thousands of prospective customers.
This role extends beyond analyzing and reporting; we take pride in helping to design and implement solutions to the different challenges that can arise in our fast paced and innovative environment.
Responsibilities
- Accurately forecast commits by month and quarter, and deliver attainment to quarterly and annual sales targets.
- Oversee, coach and motivate a team of account executives, consistently measuring their success against overall quota attainment, new logo acquisition and expansion into existing accounts.
- Hold regular 1x1s with team members, maintaining open and transparent communication.
- Develop and uplevel team selling abilities through consistent focus on enablement, solution selling and metric improvements. Build and refine sales runbooks and scripts.
- Assist in the continued codification of various product focused playbooks on how to connect data led insights to Cloudflare solutions that solve critical business challenges Cloudflare customers face daily.
- Maintain a funnel of new hire candidates by continuously interviewing and building a network of candidate potentials.
- Monitor access and proficiency of enablement resources and various sales tool licenses.
- Collaborate with Sales Enablement, Product and Product Marketing to provide and optimize sales training for newly launched features and products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Sales Management experience leading sales teams at a high-growth SaaS company (Cloud security or Hyperscalers are a bonus ; open to other relevant experience)
- Minimum 7+ years of experience of selling technical solutions or products to the Public Sector (Federal Government)
- Experience selling to the Federal customer baseand managing a Public Sector team of sales reps
- Record of high performance in consistently meeting and exceeding team plan
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
- Track record of success in selling new products and early access solutions.
- Experience in networking across business units within an account and through M&As; multi-thread to identify, engage and close new divisional buyers.
- Demonstrable record of success and passion for acquisition and expansion tactics.
- Coaching level knowledge of Gap Selling, Sandler, Challenger, or other sales methodologies.
- Strong talent for driving consensus and support among internal and external stakeholders and champions.
Compensation
For Washington DC, based hires: The expected salary range for this role is $340,000-$416,000 , depending on experience and qualifications. Job level and compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience and alignment to role expectations.
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
Top Skills
Challenger
Cloud Security
Data Led Insights
Gap Selling
SaaS
Sales Methodologies
Sales Tools
Sandler
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