Technical Innovation Analyst Summer Intern 3 months

Available Location: Lisbon Portugal

Job Title: Industry Focused Analyst Intern

About The Team

The CxO Transformation Partners (CXTP) team serves as trusted advisors to Cloudflares most senior customers and prospects. We are a highly strategic group who simplify technical complexity and align our solutions with large-scale business objectives. Our mission is to unlock commercial outcomes by bridging the gap between deep technical capabilities and executive-level strategic goals.

About The Internship

This role focuses on owning in-depth industry research and competitive landscape analysis to enhance the teams ability to tailor solutions and messaging to key markets. Key deliverables include reports on cybersecurity trends comprehensive offering-to-industry mapping and competitive analysis. You will enable more informed and targeted executive customer engagements and contribute to thought leadership content positioning Cloudflare as a leader in verticalized cybersecurity. Everything created will see tangible impact on executive briefings sales enablement materials (playbooks/battlecards) and internal knowledge bases for the CXTP team.

What Youll Get To Do In This Role

Own the dedicated industry research and competitive landscape analysis necessary to enhance the teams ability to tailor solutions and messaging to key markets. The expected outcomes of this internship include:

• Industry Research Reports: Deliver reports on cybersecurity trends threats and regulatory landscapes for target industries (e.g. Aviation and Transportation Finance Healthcare Retail etc.) identifying key challenges and opportunities.
• Cloudflare Offering-to-Industry Mapping: Create comprehensive mapping documents that align Cloudflares current and potential product capabilities with the specific cybersecurity needs and pain points of the researched industries. This will include identifying gaps and areas for new solution development.
• Competitive Analysis: Conduct an analysis of niche competitors focused on the researched industries highlighting their strengths weaknesses and how Cloudflares offerings compare.
• Improved Sales Enablement: Contribute to the creation of industry-specific CxO level playbooks presentations and battlecards enabling more informed and targeted customer engagements for the Field CXO team.
• Executive Briefing Support: Assist in the preparation of research summaries and presentation materials for executive-level customer engagements demonstrating Cloudflares understanding of industry-specific challenges and its ability to provide relevant solutions.
• Thought Leadership Contributions: Contribute research findings and insights to internal knowledge bases and potentially assist in drafting external-facing content (e.g. blog posts whitepapers) that positions Cloudflare as a thought leader in verticalized cybersecurity.
• Presentation to Leadership: Present findings and recommendations to the Field CxO team and relevant stakeholders demonstrating the business impact and learning value derived from the internship.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Undergrad BA/BS or Masters MA/MS (MBA not required).
• Available for a full-time 12-week internship working from our Lisbon office 3-5 days a week during the summer (May-Aug).
• Experience or strong interest in conducting in-depth market research and competitive analysis.
• Ability to own a high-impact project end-to-end and deliver portfolio-ready results.
• Excellent written and presentation skills. This role demands someone who is gifted in their ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including executives sales and marketing.
• Self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced innovative cloud services company.

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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