Deal Architect

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!

Available Locations: Singapore, Sydney, Australia

What we’re looking for:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Deal Architect as part of the Sales Operations team. You will play a crucial role in driving the contract lifecycle for our sales team, with a proactive focus on win-win for Cloudflare and the customer, company compliance, accuracy, and efficiency. Your primary responsibility will be to support the sales organization by helping with business processes to develop a comprehensive negotiation strategy and managing the contract / order form process, pursuing operational excellence, and ensuring that the deal can be operationally delivered and is aligned with company policies and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Trusted advisor to Sales, Legal, Finance, Billing, Deal Desk and internal to the team on complex deal structures to understand and achieve business priorities
• Deep understanding of order form policies, cross-functional team requirements and ability to negotiate.
• Work to arrive at an offer with reasonably acceptable terms with expected outcome of reaching reasonably acceptable terms to both Cloudflare and our customer.
• Oversee the end-to-end contract management process, including drafting, term input, approvals and execution.
• Reviewing, drafting and approving non-standard modifications to our MSA.
• Enforce the corporate approval framework and associated policies.
• Expertise in process and project management in a cross-functional environment by establishing respect and confidence in the business ecosystem and then being able to clearly communicate through presentation, writing and relationship building skills
• Provide training and guidance to the sales team regarding contract-related matters, policies and processes.
• Collaborates and coordinates with internal contributors and subject matter experts to ensure content is complete, accurate and maximizes business opportunities
• Self-motivated, creative problem solver with ability to perform in a fast-paced, fast-changing work environment.
• Seek out ways to make our policies and processes more efficient.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in contracts, deal management, deal strategy
• Work to time constraints while maintaining a high level of attention to detail; prioritising tasks and setting expectations accordingly, especially under pressure
• Experience working with senior executives (internal and customer)
• Experience with SFDC, CPQ, and CLM.
• Knowledge of Order Management / Billing practices for operational compliance (e.g. Oracle, Netsuite, Stripe).
• Proven experience in Sales / Commercial Contract Operations or Deal Desk, preferably in the SaaS industry.
• Must thrive on the excitement and challenge of being on a lean and busy team
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to understand client needs and translate them into compelling proposals.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and build relationships with key stakeholders.

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 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.

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.

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