Director, Customer Engineering

About the Role

The Director of Customer Engineering will partner directly with the Vice President of Sales for Canada to lead one of Cloudflare’s fastest-growing enterprise market segments. As a key member of the Canadian leadership team, this role serves as a business and technical leader accountable for technical win rates, deal quality, customer outcomes, and team effectiveness across the entire Canadian portfolio. Operating through managers and senior individual contributors, this leader will drive the regional vision by embedding AI-assisted execution and automated evaluation layers into everyday sales engineering workflows, setting the standards for execution while strategically engaging in critical customer moments to accelerate growth and impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive Regional Strategy: Partner with Canadian Sales Leaders to develop and execute technical solution strategies, leveraging AI-assisted architecture platforms and automated account planning tools to design customized technical blueprints for Canadian clients.
• Lead and Scale the Team: Recruit, interview, and onboard new team members while managing overall capacity, equitable workload distribution, and optimizing team productivity through AI-driven operational tools.
• Foster Professional Growth: Develop team members’ skills, technical knowledge, and careers within Cloudflare, coaching future managers and technical leaders on leveraging automated AI workflows to eliminate manual overhead.
• Own Performance Metrics: Oversee and report on Canadian technical performance metrics—including win rates, deal quality, and team capacity—utilizing automated evaluation pipelines over foundational data layers to continuously elevate execution bars.
• Collaborate Internationally and Cross-Functionally: Swiftly identify and resolve regional issues by collaborating with global regional leads and deploying automated Customer Escalation AI Reviewers to streamline complex technical escalations.
• Influence the Product Roadmap: Represent the Canadian Customer Engineering organization at the executive level, collaborating with Product Management and Engineering teams to prioritize regional requirements and advocate for investments in serverless and