Senior Manager GTM Specialists, AMER

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were 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 youre 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 youll fit right in.

Location(s): USA

Cloudflare is looking for a leader to manage our Cloudflare One Go-to-Market (GTM) Specialist team across the United States Canada and Latin America.

Cloudflare One unifies Zero Trust security and networking to protect users devices applications and networks. As customers evolve toward agentic enterprises it extends that security fabric to govern workforce AI usage protect sensitive data and secure access and connections involving AI agents.

You will lead GTM Specialists who partner with account executives sales leaders and Solutions Engineering to drive discovery sales strategy and execution across customer segmentswhile account teams retain ownership of the broader customer relationship.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build and develop the team: Recruit and coach GTM Specialists establish clear performance expectations and strengthen discovery business-value conversations and commercial execution.
• Own AMER growth: Deliver against the Cloudflare One quota build qualified pipeline and drive new customer acquisition and expansion. Align coverage and resources with regional priorities.
• Shape opportunity strategy: Partner with account teams on customer discovery executive alignment competitive positioning business cases and close plans. Lead strategic customer engagements.
• Partner with Solutions Engineering: Establish shared priorities and align demonstrations and proofs of concept with customer success criteria and a clear purchase decision.
• Advance modernization and secure AI adoption: Develop repeatable plays for VPN replacement secure Internet and SaaS access data protection email security and network modernization. Help customers address emerging access data protection and governance requirements for AI and agentic workflows.
• Scale cross-functional execution: Align with Sales Customer Success channel partners Marketing and Product. Strengthen field readiness share customer feedback and support effective post-sales handoffs.
• Run a disciplined business: Establish pipeline inspection forecasting and deal-review practices that create shared visibility and accountability.
• Improve effectiveness through AI: Adopt or build tools for research preparation coaching and opportunity inspection. Measure their impact while ensuring responsible use data protection and appropriate human review.
• Travel: 25% - 50%

• Demonstrated success leading GTM or enterprise sales teams in cybersecurity networking cloud services or related technologies.
• A record of hiring and developing talent improving team performance and delivering against revenue quotas.
• Strong pipeline management forecast discipline resource prioritization and commercial judgment.
• Experience leading an overlay organization or achieving results through a matrixed GTM model.
• Ability to influence without direct authority build trusted account-team partnerships and coach discovery value-based selling and complex enterprise execution.

• Strong understanding of SASE Security Service Edge (SSE) Zero Trust and security and network modernization.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Network Access Secure Web Gateway CASB Data Loss Prevention browser isolation email security WAN connectivity and firewall-as-a-serviceand their customer use cases.
• Ability to connect AI adoption and agentic workflows to least-privilege access data protection visibility and policy enforcement.
• Credibility with CISOs CIOs and senior security networking and IT leaders.
• Experience adapting GTM strategies across segments and markets; Americas experience is particularly valuable.

• Practical experience using AI to improve team productivity execution quality or customer engagement with measurable results.
• A builder mindset: comfortable prototyping AI workflows through prompting automation low-code/no-code tools or code with technical partners as needed.
• Sound judgment about responsible AI use and where human expertise remains essential.
• Strong communication and organizational skills an entrepreneurial mindset and comfort bringing structure to a fast-moving environment.
• Willingness to travel across AMER for customers team development and business priorities.

TRAVEL: 25% - 50%

Compensation

This role features a competitive base salary and a variable commission structure tied directly to the successful execution of full-lifecycle commercial targets including new business acquisition ongoing adoption milestones and overall account expansion.

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflares Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.

• For hires based in San Francisco San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area the estimated annual salary is $258000 - $354000.
• For hires based in Boston Kirkland (WA) New York City New York Metro Washington D.C. and Washington D.C. Metro as well as remote hires in California Connecticut Massachusetts New Jersey and Washington the estimated annual salary is $246000 - $339000.
• For remote hires in Colorado Illinois Maryland Minnesota Nevada New York Rhode Island and Vermont the estimated annual base salary is $127800- $159600 with an estimated variable compensation target of $85200 - $106400.
  • CO ONLYApplication Deadline: January 14 2027

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares 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.

• 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

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares 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 weve 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. Heres the deal - we dont 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 youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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