Chief of Staff, President of Product and Engineering

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s 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! 

About the role

Cloudflare is hiring a Chief of Staff, President of Product and Engineering to drive key initiatives across our global Product & Engineering teams. As an experienced Chief of Staff, you will report to the President of Product & Engineering and own large-scale, cross functional projects to operationalize key Product and Engineering initiatives across the organization. Your previous hands-on experience will help enable product marketing, demand generation, and corporate marketing to drive well-coordinated go-to-market motions across Cloudflare. This role is expected to frequently stand up new projects, own strategic cross organization initiatives, lead budget management, target setting, and reporting and analytics.

What you'll do

You will work with Marketing leadership and other leaders across the company to drive the annual and quarterly planning process, weekly business reviews, and other go-to-market initiatives. You’ll be responsible for ensuring key performance indicators are accurately measured and communicated. Using a data-driven approach, you’ll run the strategic planning process, ensure that departmental goals are prioritized, investments are optimized, and that teams are well aligned to deliver results. Partnering closely with Engineering, Product, you’ll also drive continuous technical alignment, enabling different parts of Cloudflare. You’ll also coordinate and manage department program spend and headcount budgets in close cooperation with finance business partners.

Responsibilities

• Identify areas of strategic importance and engage the right people and data to focus executive time and attention on rapid resolution of thorny strategic problems
• Design and execute initiatives that contribute to long-term operational excellence, ensuring key projects have clear milestones, success measures, and operational plans.
• Manage the program spend and headcount budget effectively by collaborating and taking inputs across the Marketing Leadership Team and delivering headcount or budget investment models.
• Coordinate, plan, and operate regular business performance reviews, strategic planning, budgets, program investments, and allocations across functional areas
• Own the quarterly goal setting process and foster alignment across the marketing functions and ensure progress and tracking towards goals.
• Lead projects that align to specific business challenges. This role is expected to frequently stand up new projects, own initiatives end-to-end in the short term, and then effectively hand off projects to other teams in the longer term as resources are aligned.
• Create strong cross-functional relationships with key business partners across the Engineering, Product, Marketing, HR and Finance organizations.
• You'll drive the annual strategic planning process for the team and help organize, track, and evaluate the impact of our strategies and initiatives over time.

Skills / Experience

• 10-15+ years of experience in go-to-market function for a scaled, public Software/SaaS technology company; some prior experience in Marketing, such as product marketing / demand generation, and in a leadership role preferred
• Exceptionally strong program management skills
• Strong people development and leadership skills; able to manage multiple extended or virtual teams and influence across the organization
• Collaborative team player who also knows how to ‘get things done’
• Executive-level written and visual presentation skills