Senior People Team Business Partner- GTM

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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! 

What You Would Do Here:

Cloudflare is growing our People team. Our focus is finding the best people to work at Cloudflare and then allowing you to do your best work. As we continue to build out our Business Partner team, we are looking for a trusted business partner who is naturally curious about what we do and driven to help our people thrive. In this role, you will report to the Global Head of GTM Business Partners - and support our strategic initiatives, partnering closely with the CMO and Revenue leaders, and managers. You will be the People Business to Marketing and our Solutions & Services business in the Revenue organization.

You will develop and implement proactive solutions for a broad scope of activities, ensuring alignment on initiatives and priorities, maintaining open and transparent lines of communication and keeping our teams thriving and well supported. You will serve as a strategic partner with strong client partnership based in business acumen. You will focus on organizational design, talent management, and driving initiatives and change leadership.

We passionately believe in leadership at all levels, and our fast growth has created a special opportunity to really enable our team members to acquire new skills and grow on the job. You will help us get better at this by spending time with our people and developing and implementing programs that are responsive to our leaders' needs, role model our company capabilities and will scale as we continue to grow an enterprise business.

**Please note a cover letter is required to be considered for this position**

*Please note there are two openings: Senior People Business Partner: One is for GTM and one is R&D. If you are interested, you should apply to both positions as you may not move forward for one of the roles but be a better match for the other role.

Who You Are:

• Motivated by cultivating company culture, building great businesses and helping people do their best work, you have served on a People/ HR team for 10+ years of experience, 5+ of which have been as a business partner.
• You have a successful history of developing strong relationships and operating effectively through virtual support and in a distributed environment.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are always looking for ways to innovate, improve and operate independently.
• You think of and present solutions to problems and don’t get bogged down by problems, rather perceive them as opportunities.
• You have participated in large-scale change initiatives and have a few stories about leading a few. You know what complexity looks like.
• You have a keen business acumen and a track record of partnering closely with business leaders. You can articulate how People teams bring value to an organization and are able to quickly develop the business case for People Team initiatives.
• You have built at least one scalable program from the ground up and have a demonstrated history of building relationships and credibility across all levels of an organization.
• You are an influencer that leads with empathy. Others have described you as skilled in implementing workforce plans, leveraging subject matter experts,and your network to enable programmatic solutions in talent management, workforce planning, think ideation to action on engagement surveys, organizational design, as two examples.
• You are a skilful communicator, verbally in small and large groups, as well as written through emails and presentations. Your super streng