VP, Talent Acquisition & Strategy

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 systemone 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 isnt to simply deploy a traditional recruiting playbook but to model the organizational system identify the core constraints and ship elegant scalable solutions.

Cloudflares 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 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 Cloudflares 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 experienceensuring unmatched speed absolute transparency and mutual respect for everyones time.
• Outcomes Over Process: Ruthlessly eliminate process for processs 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 Cloudflares 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 metricsfunnel health passive-to-active conversion velocity segment-specific time-to-fill and quality-of-hire at the 6 and 12-month marksto 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 Cloudflares 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 companys 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 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 $375000 - $400000

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!

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.

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