Senior Director, Strategy and Planning

Available Locations:  Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA

About the role

Cloudflare is looking for a seasoned leader to head Strategy and Planning function that will encompass key elements of short term and long-term planning for the Revenue Organization. This role will serve as the nexus for formulating and guiding the execution of the annual and long-term strategy to support Cloudflare growth, including annual planning, data strategy and governance, and comp design. The role will collaborate closely with revenue leadership, Finance, IT, Business Intelligence, Product, Marketing, and the other Revenue Operations functions to formulate and implement effective strategies, ensure alignment, maximize quality revenue growth and drive timely execution. 

You are right for this role if you understand nuances of GTM planning in a fast-growth high-tech company, comfortable working cross functionally and building consensus, organized and can see the big picture as well as willing to dive into details, can ruthlessly prioritize and problem solve. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Define and drive GTM strategy: Lead the development of Cloudflare’s global go-to-market strategy across products, segments, and regions, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and growth objectives.
• Long-range & annual planning: Own the annual GTM planning cycle, including revenue targets, resource allocation, coverage models, territory design, and investment priorities.  Work with sales stakeholders to create annual planning cadence, identify key work streams, formulate the timeline, and hold work stream leads accountable
• Rules of Engagement & GTM Alignment:  Refine and document policies on sales engagement with the rest of the Revenue Organization ecosystem and other functions
• Sales performance & productivity: Develop frameworks and dashboards to measure GTM effectiveness, pipeline health, and sales productivity; recommend and drive improvements
• Compensation Design:  Set up sales reps for success with effective compensation plans and high quality data in GTM systems 
• Leadership & team development: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing GTM strategy and planning team; foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Collaboration with Finance, Revenue Leaders, and their Strategy Business Partners to effectively deploy budget and the corresponding headcount to maximize ROI

Required Skills/Experience:

• Minimum 12 years of experience in sales / GTM / revenue operations, preferably, in high growth high-tech company 
• Excellent organization and project management skills coupled with operational rigor and track record of cross stakeholder program management and execution
• Established history of driving multiple complex projects at the same time to on-time completion in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment
• Strong influencing and conflict diffusion/de-escalation skills
• Proven quantitative skills and high data fluency
• Experience leading contractors and offshore teams (a plus)

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $305,000 - $373,000
• For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $290,000 - $354,000

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 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!

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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