EMEA Telco Lead - Strategic Partnerships at Cloudflare

EMEA Telco Lead - Strategic Partnerships

Cloudflare, London, UK

Help us build a better Internet

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list.

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!

About the Department

Account Executives, Strategic Alliance Managers,, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences.

The Alliances team at Cloudflare works with our strategic partners to help customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community.

About the role

Cloudflare is seeking an EMEA Telco Lead - Strategic Partnerships Manager to help drive Cloudflare’s growth in the Telco market. We are looking for an individual who is able to think strategically and long-term about the growth opportunities with Telco partners. You will be accountable for developing, owning and driving strategic partnerships with Telcos. You will work in close collaboration with Sales and Marketing leaders and existing partner teams to plan and execute initiatives. You will operate effectively across functional lines to identify and execute new opportunities.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business/sales background that enables them to engage at the CXO level and field level, and strong technical competency focused on the IT landscape. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build strong industry relationships.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as a key member of the go-to-market team, driving strategic Telco partnerships.
Develop a global strategic Telco partnership plan, aligned with Cloudflare’s business strategy.
Understand customer requirements and create innovative value propositions across product solutions, customer segments and/or industry verticals in collaboration with our Telco partners.
Develop, define and execute joint marketing and GTM programs with Telco partners
Proven track record of meeting and Manage and close pipeline of business associated with the Telco partner’s customers.
Understand the technical requirements of our partners and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings.
Drive program management of joint initiatives across Telco partner and Cloudflare teams.
Manage complex negotiations and serve as a liaison to the wider cross-functional team within Cloudflare.

Requirements

Experience working with strategic partnerships, business development and/or sales experience in the Telco/Technology space across EMEA
Solid commercial acumen with extensive enterprise sales and partner management expertise.
Thought leader with sound business judgement.
Self-starter, who is able to handle multiple competing priorities and operate successfully in a lean, fast-paced organisation.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial drive and ownership to achieve goals.
Proven ability to work effectively across internal and external organisations spanning multiple geographies.
Proven track record of meeting and exceeding pipeline and closed business targets.
Strong analytical skills and ability to turn detailed data analysis into insightful strategic recommendations.
Ability to present at all levels within a large and cross-functional organisation.
Strong verbal and written communications skills.

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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created 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.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

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 policy 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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About Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is the simplest way to make websites faster, safer and smarter. Millions of websites have signed up for our service, including large enterprises, major consumer destinations, and government agencies. With offices in San Francisco and London, Cloudflare operates a highly-available global network that has security measures built into every layer and regularly clocks in lightning-fast speeds.

We're on a mission to build a better web - and we need smart, talented people to join our team. Our team works on the forefront of leading technologies including nginx, Go and Lua programming languages. We're a strong supporter of the open source community and regularly share our technology learnings at https://blog.cloudflare.com.