Chief of Staff to CTO
Chief of Staff to CTO
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Job Description
At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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!
Location: Austin TX
About the department
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cloudflare is responsible for setting technical direction leading innovation and shipping great technology. The CTOs team at Cloudflare includes:
- Emerging Technology and Incubation: Cloudflares department focused on shipping new products built on our network that place many small bets on the future of our industry.
- Developer Platform: Cloudflares compute storage media and AI layer where millions of developers build their applications.
- Cloudflare Research: the team at Cloudflare responsible for preparing the firm for the next decade of technology evolution.
- Cloudflare Privacy: the products built at Cloudflare that help make the Internet more private for all of its users.
The team operates independently from Cloudflares core Product and Engineering team (though those partner teams are Customer Zero for anything built inside of the CTOs organization). The CTOs team consists primarily of engineers researchers and Product Managers.
The scope of problems tackled by the CTO range from investigating frontier technologies like postquantum cryptography to shipping free tools that help build a better Internet like our 1.1.1.1 resolver to launching the foundations of products trusted by some of the worlds largest organizations like our Zero Trust suite.
New products that started inside of the ETI group in the CTOs team include:
- Cloudflares industryleading Developer Platform products like our serverless compute solution our storage offering and our AI inference and services layer.
- Cloudflares bestinclass Zero Trust product line including our Zero Trust Access product our Secure Web Gateway our private networking technology our data loss prevention suite and our mobile and desktop clients.
- Cloudflares privacy solutions like our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver our consumer VPN product WARP and the technologies we build with partners like Apple and Meta to preserve privacy on the Internet.
- Cloudflares Media products including our video streaming platform and realtime calls solution.
- Building blocks that change the economics of traditional costs on the Internet like our domain registrar.
About the role
You will lead the operations strategic initiatives and communications of the group working alongside the Product Managers and Engineering Leaders to launch new technology on Cloudflares network.
Operations and Strategic Initiatives: Lead the strategic initiatives that start in ETI or rely on the ETI team. These projects can include acquisition due diligence and integration partnerships that expand Cloudflares technology to reach new customers and marketing exercises that use technology built in ETI to better tell Cloudflares story.
Team and Project Management: Shape the of ETIs vision for helping build a better Internet. The product and engineering teams in ETI will trust you to help set priorities across the group and to own new projects or dependencies. You will work closely with teams across Cloudflare to deliver on those goals.
Communications: You will help ETI tell its story internally and collaborate crossfunctionally to help tell it to the right audiences externally. You will collaborate with Communications Team to help tell stories externally and to help draft external communications. You will also create retrospectives and celebrations that we share with Cloudflare owning the presentations and materials sent by ETI. You will also help the product engineering and marketing teams get the inputs they need to tell specific stories in their areas.
Who you are
A suitable candidate will have an exceptional understanding of engineering or product management possess a deep desire to learn and communicate with grace and empathy inside and outside of Cloudflare. You have an entrepreneurial approach and solve thorny problems by getting first to the principles and then aligning the team on the goal; executing learning and adapting.
- Experience as a Product Manager in a technology company or a combination of technical experience plus management consulting or investment banking
- Experience working alongside engineering and design teams
- Track record of working with or reporting to senior management
- Experience working with customers to deploy and capture feedback on new technologies
- The ability to work in a fastmoving and everchanging environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional people skills and empathy
- A high degree of attention to detail
- A kind and generous attitude towards customers and coworkers alike
- A desire to receive feedback and grow
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares 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
- Ondemand 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
Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares enterprise customersat 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 weve 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 privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont 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 youd like to be a part of Wed 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.
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Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
