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About Us 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...
About Us
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.
The Corporate Finance team is responsible for enterprise-wide planning, budgeting, forecasting, and capital allocation. We are
strategic business partners who work cross-functionally to shape Cloudflare’s growth, investment strategy, and operational
efficiency. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love solving complex problems, and want direct exposure to executive
leadership, this is the role for you.
We’re looking for a high-performing Finance Manager to join our Corporate Finance team. In this highly visible IC role, you’ll
partner directly with Cloudflare’s senior leaders to drive decision-making across the company. You’ll build models and insights
that guide strategy, optimize investment, and support our mission to help build a better Internet.
Why This Role?
executive business reviews.
subject matter expert on areas like share count, EPS, tax, and stock-based compensation.
operational efficiency.
high-growth, public company SaaS experience preferred.
financial modeling, analyze large datasets, and generate business insights.
methods to solve complex problems. Not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.
diverse audiences.
required.
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
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.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Financial Benefits
Time Off
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.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a
reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the
application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized
equipment. 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. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us 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 LOCATIONS * Austin, US * New York, US ABOUT THE ROLE This is an invitation to redefine workforce architecture for the AI era. Cloudflare is reimagining every internal process, from engineering to finance to sales, to run on an agentic AI backbone. We are building the global teams and talent ecosystems that will define what Cloudflare looks like for the next decade of the Internet. Getting top talent here is our number priority. As our Vice President of Talent Acquisition & Strategy, you will be the chief architect of our human capital infrastructure and lead a global team of customer obsessed recruiters and operators. You will design a predictive, highly automated talent system—one that maps company growth to workforce requirements, isolates where human judgment is irreplaceable, and deploys AI agents to handle the repetitive mechanics. We are looking for a visionary leader and highly operational leader whose instinct isn’t to simply deploy a traditional recruiting playbook, but to model the organizational system, identify the core constraints, and ship elegant, scalable solutions. Cloudflare’s internal AI agent usage has increased exponentially, with our teams running thousands of daily agent sessions to build, ship, and scale products. This is our default operating rhythm. Our talent acquisition strategy reflects this modern architecture. In the agentic AI era, you will lead the function that answers the ultimate organizational question: how do we optimize for the roles that require uniquely human capabilities? You will focus our human hiring pipelines on where human capital matters most: deep creative judgment, complex systems problem-solving, and intense relationship depth. Every talent strategy you implement is a high-impact design choice for Cloudflare’s future organizational capacity. RESPONSIBILITIES * Thinking Backward from the Customer: Treat our candidates and hiring managers as your ultimate customers. You will design the entire talent acquisition architecture by thinking backward from their experience—ensuring unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone’s time. * Outcomes Over Process: Ruthlessly eliminate "process for process's sake." You believe that workflows exist to enable great hiring, not to create bureaucratic hurdles. You will empower your team to be agile, adaptive, and focused on delivering high-quality matches rather than checking compliance boxes. 2. TALENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGIC PLANNING * Enterprise Strategy: Partner with executive leadership to translate Cloudflare’s long-term product roadmaps and financial models into a predictive, multi-year global talent strategy. * Pipeline Instrumentation: Build and monitor a highly data-driven talent funnel. Instrument key metrics—funnel health, passive-to-active conversion velocity, segment-specific time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire at the 6 and 12-month marks—to continuously tune the engine. * AI-First Operations: Seamlessly deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops to free up your team for deep relationship building. 3. HIGH-CREDIBILITY PARTNERSHIPS * Peer-Level Alignment: Earn deep trust with our organizations through genuine technical fluency. * Market Intelligence: Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations, advising leaders on global talent pool elasticity, compensation trends, and site selection before hiring needs even arise. 4. GLOBAL OPERATIONS & TEAM LEADERSHIP * Inspirational Leadership: Lead, mentor, and elevate a global team of recruiters, technical sourcers, operational specialists, and passionate members of our team globally. * Global Compliance Velocity: Maintain uncompromised data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, pay transparency, local employment laws) across the US, EMEA, and APAC. 5. EMPLOYER BRAND AS A PRODUCT * Authentic Narrative: Position Cloudflare’s employer brand as an authentic reflection of our culture, attracting builders and sellers who are passionate about shaping an AI-first Internet. * Future Talent Pipelines: Run early-career, university, and diversity recruiting initiatives with the same structured, metrics-driven approach applied to our senior staff engineering hires. HIGHLY VALUED SIGNALS * Ideal Non-Traditional Backgrounds: We highly value senior people leaders from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales or corporate strategy environments, other functions within people leadership, where problem-solving begins with systems-level modeling, rigorous data diagnostics, and structural thinking. * Infrastructure Tech Deep Roots: Prior leadership experience at a SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, consumer, company where keeping a world-class technical bar is foundational to the company's success. * Organizational Agility: Experience successfully guiding talent operations through corporate reorganizations, high-growth scaling phases, or post-acquisition integrations with clear intent and structure. * Compensation Architecture Fluency: Strong familiarity with market data platforms (Radford, Levels.fyi, Carta) and an understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands to help structure complex executive offers seamlessly. * Global Scope: Direct experience scaling international tech hubs (specifically across EMEA and APJC), including a strong working knowledge of cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices. COMPENSATION Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. * For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000 EQUITY This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. BENEFITS 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. HEALTH & WELFARE 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 FINANCIAL BENEFITS * Short and Long Term Disability Insurance * Life & Accident Insurance * 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan * Employee Stock Participation Plan TIME OFF * Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave * Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave 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. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. 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. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us 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 Locations: New York, NY, San Francisco, CA ABOUT THE TEAM The Finance team is a critical pillar of Cloudflare’s success, translating strategy into financial outcomes, and serving as a trusted voice to the public markets, the Board, and our shareholders. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the 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. Come join us! ABOUT THE ROLE Cloudflare is looking for a Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations to serve as a key leader on our Investor Relations team and a trusted partner to the CFO, CEO, and senior leadership. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Finance, Treasury, Deal Desk, & Investor Relations and is the engine room of how Cloudflare tells its financial story to the public markets — translating one of the most differentiated technology platforms in the world into a clear, credible, and compelling investment narrative. You will own the end-to-end quarterly earnings cycle, drive our long-term financial model and consensus discipline, partner directly with the CFO and senior leadership on guidance, and lead the analytical and communications work behind every major investor and analyst touchpoint — quarterly calls, conferences, our annual Investor Day, and ad-hoc executive projects. You will be the connective tissue between Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, Product, Sales, and the executive team, and the person who makes sure every number, every claim, and every word we put in front of Wall Street is accurate. This is a high-visibility, high-ownership role on a very lean IR team. We move fast, we ship work that goes directly to the CEO, CFO, Board, and public markets, and we hold ourselves to an exceptionally high bar on accuracy — and we are AI-native in how we work, treating modern tooling as a force multiplier on insight, productivity, and rigor. WHAT YOU’LL DO As the Director, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations, you will be the operational and analytical lead for Cloudflare's engagement with the public markets. Your primary responsibilities will include: Quarterly earnings and consensus management * Own the end-to-end quarterly earnings process: press release, supplemental financial information, prepared remarks (CEO and CFO scripts), Q&A prep, investor deck, and supporting validation work. * Partner with the CFO and senior leadership to develop the company's guidance (including share count forecasting) and own the executive-facing materials that frame guidance decisions, sensitivity ranges, and the trade-offs in how we communicate them. * Lead the Q&A preparation process — anticipated questions, suggested answers, peer transcript triangulation, key stats and proof points, and live-call backup material. * Lead the post-earnings analyst callback program, including coordinating callbacks with ~30 sell-side analysts across CEO and CFO sessions. * Drive earnings materials validation — the cross-check pass that ensures every figure, claim, and disclosure across the press release, supplemental, scripts, Q&A, deck, 10-Q, and 10-K ties out and is internally and externally consistent. Investor engagement and external communications * Serve as a primary point of contact for sell-side analysts and institutional investors; build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with our covering analysts and shareholders. * Articulate the Cloudflare investment narrative — our connectivity cloud strategy, the Workers and Developer Platform story, and our long-term financial model — in a way that is both compelling and credible. * Plan and execute the calendar of investor events: sell-side conferences, one-on-ones, on-site investor visits, and our annual Investor Day. * Prepare the CEO, CFO, and other senior executives for every investor interaction with tailored briefing materials, talking points, and Q&A prep. * Develop and maintain core IR collateral: investor presentation, fact sheets, IR website content, and board-of-directors investor update materials. Investor Day and special projects * Co-lead the planning and execution of our annual Investor Day — invite tracker and registration management, co-author all presentation content and prepared remarks across all presenters, own the supporting documentation, validation, day-of logistics, and post-event follow-through. * Lead select strategic finance projects: peer benchmarking analyses, long-range financial modeling, competitive analyses, and ad-hoc executive-level financial analyses. Cross-functional partnership and analytics * Be a trusted partner to Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, FP&A, and the executive team — the person who knows where every number comes from and what it means. * Monitor and synthesize analyst coverage, peer performance, investor sentiment, market dynamics, and industry trends; provide actionable insights to the CFO, CEO, and Board of Directors. * Build and maintain the internal analytical infrastructure that powers the function — the models, dashboards, trackers, and validation systems that let a small team operate at scale. * Drive the IR function's use of AI-native tooling and automation, treating modern tools as a force multiplier on insight, productivity, accuracy, and stakeholder communications. EXAMPLES OF DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE To succeed in this role, you should be a strategic thinker with deep financial acumen, exceptional written and verbal communication skills, an ownership mindset, and a genuine intellectual curiosity about both the business and the public markets. Specifically: * * 10+ years of experience combining investor relations, equity research, investment banking, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing — ideally with meaningful time in-house at a high-growth public technology company. * Deep technical fluency with public-company reporting, financial statements, capital markets, valuation methodologies, and SaaS / consumption-based revenue models. Comfort debating modeling assumptions and valuation mechanics. * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — including the ability to draft in the voice of senior executives, translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear narratives for non-technical audiences, and operate confidently in high-stakes external communications. * Advanced financial modeling skills — fluency in building, maintaining, and stress-testing operating models, share-count and dilution forecasts, guidance sensitivity analyses, and consensus benchmarks. * An ownership mindset — comfort owning a process end-to-end, driving operational structure in a fast-paced environment, and operating with the integrity and accuracy demanded by external disclosure. * High-trust collaboration — the ability to build credibility quickly with senior internal stakeholders (CFO, CEO, Board, Legal, Accounting, FP&A) and external stakeholders (sell-side analysts, institutional investors). * AI-native curiosity and skill — fluency with modern AI tooling and a track record of using it to amplify your impact. We are building an AI-forward organization and the right candidate sees AI as a partner, not a threat. * Sound judgment with confidential information — a clear understanding of materiality, fair disclosure, Reg FD, and the discretion required when working with pre-announcement financial data. * Sector background in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI preferred — existing relationships with top-tier infrastructure / software sell-side analysts and institutional investors a plus. * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred. Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. * For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $200,000 - $275,000 * For New York City based hired: Estimated annual salary of $190,000 - $262,000 Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits 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. Health & Welfare 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 Financial Benefits * Short and Long Term Disability Insurance * Life & Accident Insurance * 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan * Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off * Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave * Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave 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. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. 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. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us 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. Global Payment Operations Lead Location: US Austin Are you ready to propel the financial engine of one of the world's most innovative technology companies? Cloudflare is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking, and high-energy Global Payment Operations Lead to revolutionize our Global Accounts Payable landscape. Based in our bustling Austin, TX hub, this high-visibility role places you at the helm of global cash movement, directly impacting how our financial infrastructure scales with our hyper-growth. You will act as the ultimate architect for our payment lifecycle—spearheading the deployment of cutting-edge payment systems and pioneering new payment methods across the globe. This isn't just an operational role; it's a transformative leadership opportunity where you will tackle intricate cross-border banking challenges, navigate complex global payment rejections alongside international banking partners, and serve as a vital strategic partner to Treasury and Supplier Enablement. If you are passionate about financial optimization, thrive on navigating ambiguous international banking rails, and want to leave an indelible mark on a global finance ecosystem, we want you on our team! Role Responsibilities * Global Payment Execution: Oversee and execute all high-volume weekly and ad hoc corporate payment runs for the Global Accounts Payable department, driving uncompromised accuracy, velocity, and strict compliance with global internal controls. * Systems & Method Innovation: Spearhead the implementation, testing, and launch of next-generation corporate payment systems and innovative global payment methods to scale financial infrastructure and streamline multi-currency delivery. * Banking Partner Collaboration: Work closely with our international banking partners to proactively investigate, troubleshoot, and swiftly resolve complex payment rejection reasons, structurally eliminating operational bottlenecks and friction. * Treasury & Liquidity Alignment: Partner intimately with the corporate Treasury team to manage critical daily funding requirements and drive robust quarterly free cash flow forecasts and actuals analyses. * Master Data Governance: Collaborate dynamically with Supplier Enablement teams to mandate and execute precise updates to vendor banking master data, maximizing straight-through processing rates and preventing transactional risk. * Technical Optimization: Masterfully leverage and optimize our foundational financial architecture—including Oracle Fusion, Kyriba, and direct bank APIs—to continually automate, refine, and secure our end-to-end payment workflows. Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills) * International Payment Architecture: Vast professional experience executing complex corporate payments internationally across a wide range of global jurisdictions, demonstrating expert command over regional payment rails, payment methods, and rigorous banking detail requirements. * Advanced Systems Proficiency: Proven, hands-on administrative proficiency with tier-one treasury and ERP solutions, explicitly including Oracle Fusion, Kyriba, and direct bank APIs. * Professional Experience: 5+ years of progressive professional experience within an international corporate accounts payable, global treasury operations, or high-capacity transactional finance function. * Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, International Business, or a closely related academic field. * Core Capabilities: Exceptional analytical capability, world-class problem-solving skills, and a confident, articulate communication style suited for cross-functional collaboration across all management tiers. * Application Requirement: To be considered for this high-visibility position, applicants must submit an updated, professional resume. Nice-to-Have Skills * Direct operational experience working within major global payment processing institutions or financial technology giants (e.g., PayPal, Adyen, Stripe, or equivalent platforms) is considered a tremendous advantage. EQUITY This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. BENEFITS 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. Health & Welfare 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 Financial Benefits * Short and Long Term Disability Insurance * Life & Accident Insurance * 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan * Employee Stock Participation Plan * Time Off * Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave * Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave 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. 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