About the role
Austin, TX (Relocation Assistance provided to those willing to relocate)
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What you’ll do
- Business Acumen & COE Conduction
- Partner directly with the Head of R&D and technical VPs to align talent strategy with Cloudflare’s product roadmap, platform architecture, and operational goals.
- Act as the chief conductor across People Team COEs—synthesizing R&D’s operational realities to push COEs for tailored, high-impact talent programs while challenging R&D leaders to elevate their organizational standards.
- Apply analytical rigor to people metrics, diagnosing organizational health, attrition trends, and productivity indicators to guide business decisions proactively.
- Organizational Design & AI Integration
- Architect agile, high-velocity R&D structures designed for AI-native workflows, optimizing team size, spans of control, and cross-functional interfaces across platform and product teams.
- Partner with engineering leadership to rethink operating rhythms and team structures as development shifts from traditional models to AI-assisted, agent-driven engineering.
- Talent Portfolio Management & Human Judgment
- Evolve technical career frameworks, leveling, and role definitions to reflect the higher leverage expected in AI-native engineering environments.
- Drive succession planning, critical-role mapping, and retention strategies for specialized technical talent across Cloudflare’s global hubs.
- Establish clear boundaries between work optimized by AI and decisions requiring human judgment, ethical clarity, nuance, and character.
- Driving Change & Strategic Initiatives
- Drive complex, continuous change initiatives across global R&D teams, equipping leaders to navigate structural evolution, technological pivots, and shifting priorities with clarity.
- Deliver custom, service-oriented solutions tailored to business needs, providing high-trust coaching to senior technical leaders as they navigate complex team dynamics with empathy and results.
- Team Leadership
- Lead a global team of HRBPs, setting a high standard for strategic partnership, business fluency, and execution speed.
How they work
- 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.
Eligibility
Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
How to apply
- Apply analytical rigor to people metrics, diagnosing organizational health, attrition trends, and productivity indicators to guide business decisions proactively.
- Talent Portfolio Management & Human Judgment Evolve technical career frameworks, leveling, and role definitions to reflect the higher leverage expected in AI-native engineering environments.
- Core Pillar Excellence: Demonstrated expertise across all four functional buckets: business acumen, organizational design, talent portfolio management, and driving change.
- Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St.
Benefits & working conditions
- 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.
- 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
About Cloudflare
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We're not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap. We're looking for builders — people who spot the "normalized" problem everyone else has learned to live with and have the curiosity and drive to fix it. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to move faster and sharing every improvement across the team. If you value curiosity over bureaucracy and see AI as a partner in solving hard problems, you'll fit right in.
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