Technical Program Manager - Federal Programs

About Us

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! 

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, San Francisco, or Remote - US

Cloudflare is seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Technical Program Manager with experience driving security compliance projects to join our team.  Your main responsibility will be to work cross functionally across the product, engineering, security compliance, and legal organizations to build and execute on the overall strategy for pursuing compliance projects. 

You will play an active part in collecting requirements, setting up deliverables, reporting progress, managing stakeholder expectations and working with various functions to deliver success. You will partner with various security compliance professionals to determine available options, manage stakeholder expectations, and execute against the jointly designed path to certification.

This job involves managing multiple stakeholders and accommodating teams dispersed across multiple time zones. 

The ideal candidate is process driven but remains flexible and iterative, someone who loves to tackle new challenges, really enjoys bringing people together as a team, and driving them towards success. 

You will be reporting into the Engineering Program Management Organization (PMO). 

Major areas of responsibilities

• Understand technical requirements of assigned compliance programs
• Understand Cloudflare products and how the technology is applied in Federal sector
• Effectively balance risk and achieve business objectives 
• Obtain clear requirements, plans, and decisions to proactively tackle critical gaps and mitigate risk
• Drive creation and roll out of scalable processes to meet compliance policies and procedures 
• Set up regular feedback cycles and ensure buy-in from contributors on program plan & roadmap
• Promote a culture of security compliance across the organization 
• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and senior management

Desirable skills and knowledge 

• BS+ in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or related field or equivalent experience 
• 5+ years experience in project management or/3+ yrs experience in program management 
• Proven track record on creating realistic project plans, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
• Excellent oral and written communication. 
• Experience working with multiple time zones and multiple cross functional teams.
• Strong competency with Confluence, JIRA (admin-level experience strongly preferred), and various development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Kaizen, Scrum, etc).  
• Previous experience with driving US compliance certification (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC2, FedRamp Moderate/High, PCI-DSS, etc)

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires and Washington hires: Estimated annual salary of $147,000 - $179,000
• For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $161,000 - $197,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s 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