Vice President of Product Management, Cloudflare One

Available Locations: Austin TX

About the role

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.

Cloudflare One is our SASE platform that is redefining how the worlds most sophisticated organizations secure and connect their global workforce. By unifying Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Wide Area Network (WAN) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) as well as Email Security into a single seamless SASE architecture we are moving the industry beyond the legacy castle-and-moat era.

What youll do

We are looking for a product leader to lead the Cloudflare One portfolio. You are not someone to simply manage a steady ship; you are someone to invent the next generation of Access Gateway and WAN unlocking new Total Addressable Markets (TAM) in the SASE space while executing your way into being the market leader for the current Service Addressable Market (SAM). You will operate as a General Manager of your domain equally formidable across Product Engineering Sales and Strategy. You are deeply empathetic and entrepreneurial minded translating market signals into a strategic evolving organization.

In this role you will provide the vision and leadership to redefine how Cloudflare engages CIOs and CISOs to protect the data devices employees and networks that power their business - from teams of 50 to the Fortune 50. You will also act as a key evangelist and storyteller articulating a compelling and optimistic vision for the future of development on Cloudflare while cultivating a passionate hard-working and collaborative culture inspiring your team to overcome challenges and innovate.

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience:

We are looking for a leader who is more of a founder than a manager.

• A deep empathy for customers and an understanding of the fundamental shifts happening in technology the SSE and SASE space especially around AI
• Proven experience in a senior leadership role (e.g. former founder Sr. Director VP CTO) having built and scaled both products and teams.
• An entrepreneurial spirit with enterprise etiquette and a history of building things whether in a successful venture or a passionate side project
• Proven ability to pivot instantly from technical deep-dives to high-level strategic discussions. You have a track record of partnering with Sales to close Fortune 50 CIOs and presenting complex roadmaps to the Board of Directors with confidence
• Exceptional storytelling ability with the passion and excitement to inspire internal teams new customers analysis and everyone in between
• The ability to thrive in an autonomous environment comfortable with ambiguity and defining your own path forward for the product and the team
• A genuine optimism yet realistic view of things with resilience to navigate challenges and lead with a can-do attitude on all stages
• You can synthesize complex information for diverse audiences - from the code-level details for developers to the ROI analysis for enterprise buyers.

Must-Have Skills

• 12 years of experience in product management or a closely related role with a focus on network and data security technologies (e.g. ZTNA Gateways DLP CASB data encryption data classification data privacy).
• Own the SASE product roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable accurate roadmap.
• Partner with leaders in other departments such as Product Marketing Marketing Sales and Customer Support to drive adoption with and gather feedback from customers and prospects.
• Develop and nurture relationships with engineering leadership and coordinate closely to ensure successful delivery of product
• Deep understanding of the network and security landscapes including current trends and threats regulatory requirements and emerging technologies.
• A strong passion for and a clear vision for how AI and Machine Learning can fundamentally transform current SASE solutions in the modern era and in the future

Nice to haves

• An understanding and real-world experience working with all types of channel partners (VARs MSP MSSP etc)
• A Computer Science degree or equivalent in-seat experience in product roles for technical products is highly preferred.
• Experience leading product integrations during post-merger acquisitions (M&A).
• Deep familiarity with Zero Trust architecture and SD-WAN markets.

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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