About the Role
Cloudflare is seeking a curious, analytical, and action-oriented MBA intern to join either Product Operations or Pricing and Monetization. Both of these roles sit at the center of how we build, launch, and scale products, and are ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, moving quickly, and helping teams operate more effectively.
As an MBA intern, you will help develop and execute strategies that drive growth and operational improvements in the business. Projects include conducting market and customer research, uncovering customer and market insights, providing analytical insights, and driving transformational business projects. You will collaborate and partner cross functionally to drive high impact initiatives and decisions. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, moving quickly, and helping teams operate more effectively. The application deadline for this internship is January 31, 2026.
What You'll Do
You will work on highly sophisticated problems, turn customer insights into action, strengthen operational processes, and have exposure to senior-level decision-making and the chance to create relationships with people across the company. We value people who lead with a hypothesis, take initiative even when information is incomplete, and are comfortable stepping up to move work forward.
Some examples of potential projects:
- Drive market intelligence for Cloudflare, working cross-functionally to research problems, analyze opportunities, and work towards solutions and meaningful recommendations and results through a thorough, fact-based process.
- Provide insights to the business through analytics and market research as required (e.g. pipeline and sales data, market, customer, competitors). Synthesize insights and present clear recommendations for product planning or pricing decisions.
- Develop strategic and business cases working with cross-functional teams outlining business opportunity, rationale, and operating plans to capture the opportunity including product, GTM strategies, and business model.
- Support product launches with GTM, Marketing, Product, Pricing, and Engineering teams
- Drive operational excellence by improving product processes (e.g., launch playbooks, feedback loops, reporting), identify and propose solutions for inefficiencies, and maintain shared tools (e.g., roadmaps, dashboards).
- Act as a strategic partner to Product on key business decisions, including build vs. buy analyses, partnership strategy, and long-term product roadmap.
Who We're Looking For
We are looking for a strong analytic background and have competencies in all areas of strategy development and execution including project management, business analysis and problem solving. We look for hardworking people with strong executive communication and consensus building capabilities. Demonstrated ability to thrive in an unstructured, collaborative environment is ideal. Management consulting and technology market experience is appreciated.
Ideal Qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a MBA program.
- Experience driving large initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research / analysis to building the business and operational plans through to driving execution to success is required.
- Prior experience in strategy, business operations in a technology company
- Clear and concise written / verbal communications to work with senior executives across geographies and functions; comfort in business and technical discussions.
- Strong data handling and financial skills to work on sophisticated business issues with minimum supervision.
- Naturally proactive and comfortable pushing work forward in unclear environments.
- Analytical and structured in your thinking, with a tendency to start with a hypothesis.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams.
Bonus Points:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject area is appreciated.
- Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative high-growth environment.
- Ability to commit to a full-time 12 week internship.
- In office 3-4 days a week in-office in Austin, San Francisco, or New York.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- Estimated hourly pay of $55/hour.
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
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