
Professional Services Consultant, Network Services
Cloudflare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Colorado • District of Columbia • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $182,000 per year
About the role
- Act as a Product Manager of Professional Services, specifically in Network Services.
- Prioritizes and executes on building offerings based on alignment with strategic vision.
- Review information gathered by PS Leaders and Consultants to understand offering value propositions.
- Execute on building PS offerings based on direction from Leadership.
- Builds sales collateral, scoping guidelines, project plans, delivery kits/accelerators.
- Lead efforts to create and maintain selling and delivery enablement.
- Creates service offerings that are in-line with quick wins.
- Focuses on a-la-carte add-on services and packaged services targeting different customer profiles, e.g., Mid-Market, Enterprise, etc.
- Demonstrates good communication skills across the PS organization (Delivery Leaders, Engagement Management, Consulting Delivery) and Customer Success team.
- Own and launch internal and external marketing campaigns (e.g. blog posts, videos, webinars, internal enablement, presentation on worldwide field calls, regional leader calls, etc.) about new or improved offerings.
- Drive the team's comprehensive understanding of Cloudflare's platform and capabilities, including configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting, ensuring collective expertise within the practice.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field. In lieu of a degree, minimum 5 years experience working in a technical support, security operations center or other highly technical team.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Professional Services, Project Management, or a customer-facing role.
- Strong understanding of the Professional Services landscape, including both internal and partner-provided services.
- Proven prior work experience as a Product Manager, Practice Manager, Implementation Manager, and/or Solutions Engineer.
- Knowledge and familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Demonstrated progressive relevant experience defining, developing, and executing training strategies, operations and action plans.
- Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and explain them to customer and Professional Services audiences (mostly technical).
- Proven ability to effectively interact with and influence senior executives and team members.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experienced in giving and receiving constructive feedback.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment.
- Experience with Jira and Salesforce (or similar CRM tool) is a plus.
- Fluency in English (written and oral) is a must.
- Technical experience might include a combination of the skills below:
- Minimum 5 years experience working in a technical support, security operations center or other highly technical team.
- Deep understanding of how the internet works, Networking and Security, Zero Trust Services/SASE, APIs and related technologies.
- Layers and protocols of the OSI model, such as TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, DNS, HTTP.
- Reverse and forward proxies and the application of both.
- IPv4/6, VPNs, router and L3/L4 and next gen firewall configuration, SDN and overall IT networking related best practices.
- Demonstrated experience with BGP (network design & implementation), tunneling technologies such as GRE & IPSec, MPLS, SD-WAN, NetFlow and/or sFlow.
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing content delivery network (CDN), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, web application firewall (WAF), load balancing, and other related solutions for clients across various industries.
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
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Product ManagementProject ManagementSoftware Development Life CycleNetworkingSecurityZero Trust ServicesAPIsOSI ModelBGPContent Delivery Network
Soft Skills
CommunicationNegotiationInterpersonal SkillsFeedbackAdaptabilityInfluencingTraining Strategy DevelopmentCustomer EngagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Vision Alignment