Manager, Customer Success - Digital Native Americas Id-3715

Available Locations: Austin/TX or San Francisco/CA or New York City/NY
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 approximately 25 million 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!
About the Department
Customer Success at Cloudflare is focused on customer adoption and value realization of Cloudflare solutions. We work closely with our customers in the closing stages of the sales cycle being ready to partner with them as they implement, adopt and optimize our cloud solutions around their business goals and objectives. We are proactively driven to fully understand their "why" so that we can articulate what we can do to help to ensure full value and outcomes from Cloudflare Solutions and Products.
The Customer Success Teams consist of Customer Success Managers and Customer Solutions Engineers to proactively engage with customer needs to help accelerate the outcomes that our customers are looking to achieve.
The Customer Success Team works closely across all of the Cloudflare Team particularly with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Product, Marketing, Support, Professional Services and Operations to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences.
What you'll do
As the leader of a Mid Market Customer Success Manager team in the U.S., you will be responsible for ensuring the success of our customers by investing in the development of our Customer Success Managers. You will bring strong relationship-building experience, deep technical and product knowledge, leadership and organizational skills, as well as a high degree of empathy to ensure the customer's satisfaction with Cloudflare's services. You will empower the team to deliver customer outcomes and grow adoption and utilization of Cloudflare solutions.
Additional responsibilities will include:


Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

  • 5+ years of experience in customer success in a related industry
  • 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, preferably collaborating with internal and external technical stakeholders
  • Experience working with CTOs, CISOs and CIOs at large multinational/enterprise companies
  • Proven leader and motivator with experience building and leading growing customer success organizations
  • Experience serving in a CSP (Cloud Service Platform), Security and Networking company will be a huge plus
  • Experience supporting organizations with complex team structures and architectures
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders
  • Proven track record of driving customer success and achieving business outcomes
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet customer needs
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities


Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

  • For Austin, Colorado and New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $166,000-202,000
  • For Washington, DC, New York City, and California based hires (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $177,000-217,000
  • For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $186,000-228,000


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
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