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 Director of People Team Business Partners - R&D (Americas) - and support our strategic initiatives, partnering closely with leadership across our R&D Teams. You will be the People Team Business Partner to help support our Product, Engineering and Security Teams.
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. ***
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 12+ years of experience, 5+ of which have been as a senior 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 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 and are able to navigate through it to get things across the finish line.
- 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 skillful communicator, verbally in small and large groups, as well as written through emails and presentations. Your super strength, especially when the message may be difficult, is face-to-face.
- You are generous with your time and earn and maintain the trust that people place with you.
- Uncompromising when it comes to your integrity, you speak truth, act with respect and lead with dignity.
- You love working with people - you maybe secretly love working with spreadsheets too!
Cloudflare Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision options plus global wellbeing resources including mental health, childcare, and family-forming support. These programs are prominently featured in company materials across regions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as “take-what-you-need” vacation, and a global policy offers up to 16 paid weeks of parental bonding leave for qualifying new parents. Together these indicate generous leave breadth on paper.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as accessible to all, with Cloudflare stating every employee is an owner and highlighting broad-based stock participation and an ESPP. This ownership stance is framed as a core part of total rewards.
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