Senior Sales Manager

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll fit right in.

Available Location: Paris

About the Department

Account Executives, 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.

About the Role

Our Southern Europe Sales Team has been building an Enterprise focussed team spanning across mid-tier and all the way up to Global 2000 Enterprise accounts. Cloudflare has accelerated bringing both Enterprise and Fortune 1000 companies onto our platform in recent years, and this team will do that with more focus, faster pace, and higher long term growth expectations.

As the Sales Manager you will lead our France Mid Market Sales Team. We are seeking a highly experienced and talented Mid Market Accounts’ Sales Leader to help us manage and grow the organisation with overall responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue, hiring and brand awareness while maintaining the Cloudflare Culture. 

The position will require leadership that spans go-to-market strategy development, managing Mid Market Account Executives and key account planning program development and implementation, executive relationship mapping and alignment, cultivating deep levels of trust and product co-creation, balancing short term with long term sales cycles and collaborating extensively cross-functionally to bring to bear product, marketing, support, success, solution engineering and channel onto our highest growth potential accounts. 

Key Responsibilities

• Team Building & Hiring: Continue to build, recruit, and coach the France Mid-Market Sales Team in close partnership with recruiting resources and regional leadership.

• Team Leadership: Direct leadership of Mid-Market Account Executives (AEs), while aligning cross-functional support roles (BDRs, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Field Marketing).

• Execution & Revenue Growth: Drive sales growth through operational rigor, consistent pipeline generation, tight sales execution, and targeted regional go-to-market initiatives.

• Process & Methodology: Implement and drive best practices using the company’s sales methodology (e.g., MEDDPICC) across pipeline management, forecasting, and account expansion.

• Regional Strategy: Execute sales strategies tailored to the French mid-market segment and mid-sized enterprises (ETI), ensuring fast sales cycles and quick customer time-to-value.

• Deal Support: Act as an operational point of contact and dynamic "player-coach" to help close strategic mid-market deals and resolve operational roadblocks.

• Governance: Ensure corporate policy and sales standards are consistently followed by the team.

• Cadence & Rigor: Maintain a structured operational cadence: weekly forecast calls, pipeline reviews, 1-on-1 coaching sessions, deal reviews, and team meetings.

Desired Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of sales management experience in B2B SaaS/Tech, preceded by a strong track record as an individual contributor selling into mid-sized businesses.

• Language skills: Fluency in French and English is required.

• Mid-Market Focus: Proven success managing medium-length, high-velocity sales cycles (30–90 days) with a strong quarterly execution cadence.

• Ecosystem Knowledge: Solid understanding of the French IT, Cloud, and Cybersecurity landscape (mid-market / ETI segment).

• Technical Aptitude: Experience or strong familiarity with cloud security, network performance, Zero Trust, SASE, and modern web architecture.

• Sales Rigor: Mastery of sales methodologies, CRM hygiene (Salesforce), pipeline generation strategies, and accurate quarterly forecasting.

• Leadership Style: Hands-on leader capable of coaching, developing early-to-mid career AEs, and driving high team energy and performance.

Compensation

• For France based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €178,000 - €244,000.
  • This role is labelled CSP 3-2 and has a coefficient of 210, as per the SYNTEC Collective Bargaining Agreement.

This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s 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.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.