Talent Development Partner

Available Locations: Austin TX New York NY San Francisco CA

About the role

We are looking for a strategist to lead the design of our talent performance this role you will own the end-to-end architecture for talent assessment leadership bench-building and strategic workforce planning. You will act as the bridge between our talent philosophy and its execution partnering with business leaders HRBPs Talent Acquisition IT and Total Rewards to build a tech-enabled AI-first ecosystem for career mobility and leadership growth. This is a strategic role for someone who is able to balance consistency and nuance for our hyper-growth environment and global scale.

Responsibilities

• Talent Management
• Own the design and implementation of company-wide Talent Review and Succession Planning processes to identify assess and develop employees for critical roles.
• Develop and manage career pathing frameworks and competency models that support employee growth and organizational agility.
• Architect the AI-Fluency Competency Model: Partner with key stakeholders to help define and embed the behavioral standards and technical competencies for AI fluency across the workforce (e.g. responsible use prompt engineering).
• Partner closely with People Analytics and HRBPs on our employee listening strategy; leverage insights to shape our learning & talent strategies.
• Analyze talent insights to inform workforce needs assessment evaluate talent process effectiveness and drive organizational decision making.
• Integrate diversity and inclusion principles into all talent management and succession processes.
• Embed AI into all talent workflows to elevate efficiency accuracy decision quality and customer experience for employees and managers.
• Own and design a comprehensive Performance Review strategy that is responsive to business needs and nuances (objective setting check-ins year-end reviews calibration).
• Analyze performance data to identify trends ensure consistency and recommend enhancements to drive higher employee engagement and productivity.
• Collaborate with the People Technology team to design and implement system enhancements that streamline the talent and performance review cycle and improve the user experience.
• Partner closely with Total Rewards to ensure our talent processes support pay for performance methodologies.
• Facilitate sessions that feel more like conversations than presentationsengaging employees at every level.
• Work directly with our Human Resource Business Partners and business leaders to identify real capability gapsand solve them in ways that dont always mean more training or workshops.

Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)

• Working backwards from our internal mobility goals and philosophy implement skill-based workforce planning solutions that enable Cloudflare to forecast capability gaps identify skill adjacencies and guide our talent decisions.
• Introduce an AI-enabled and system-driven operating model that connects employees to roles projects and development opportunities.
• Integrate AI skills intelligence into hiring development performance and mobility to enable a more fluid and adaptive workforce.
• Identify critical talent gaps surpluses and skill adjacencies developing mitigation strategies (e.g. build buy borrow).

Skills

• You are deeply knowledgeable about the business and industry comfortable navigating and leading others through ambiguity pivoting quickly to address new challenges and solving complex problems without a pre-existing playbook.
• AI fluency: Youre skilled in leveraging AI and machine intelligence to build the talent ecosystem
• Systems Thinker: You recognize the connections across the organization and take a holistic approach to analyzing situations and developing solutions that are sustainable in the longer term and account for system interdependencies.
• Strategic Acumen: You have an ability to translate long-term business strategy into concrete talent and workforce initiatives.
• Data-Driven: You use data and insights to proactively diagnose issues inform your recommendations influence decisions and measure the impact of your work.
• Execution Excellence & Resilience: You deliver high quality results through leading projects and initiatives with milestones and delivery schedules in partnership with stakeholders and develop clear action plans with results-oriented goals for measuring success.
• Consulting & Partnering: You have a strong ability to build trust and credibility with business leaders as a subject matter expert and to work effectively across multiple business areas and teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Change Management: You are skilled in leading organizational change and ensuring successful adoption of new HR processes.
  
  

Desirable Qualifications

• 10 years of progressive experience in Human Resources with a strong focus on Talent Management Workforce Planning and Performance Management.
• Proven experience partnering directly with C-suite executives within a rapidly scaling organization.
• Technology industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Bachelors degree in Human Resources (or related field) required. Advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated success running large-scale complex HR programs (e.g. annual performance cycle talent review).
• Highly proficient in using Workday and other HR systems/tools tools to extract analyze and present data-driven insights to senior leaders.
• Prompt Engineering & Design: Experience using LLMs to accelerate content creation and organizational research.
• Exceptional verbal written and presentation skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154000 - $212000
• For New York City based hired; Estimated annual salary of $148000 - $204000

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
• 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

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 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 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 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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!

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