Business Operations Manager

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.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: 

• Austin, TX
• San Francisco, CA

About the Team

The Business Operations team sits within the CFO organization and is responsible for core company KPI reporting, incubating new analytics capabilities, and leading or facilitating cross-functional initiatives to design and operationalize high-impact programs. We are looking for an individual with strong analytical horsepower to join the team to provide decision-making support to Cloudflare’s strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is passionate about problem solving and insight discovery, as well as is excited about rolling the sleeves to prototype MVPs and building high quality processes and tooling that scale with our rapid growth.

What you'll do 

• Work on complex problems: identify root causes of the challenge and/or underlying business drivers, execute in-depth analyses to translate data into meaningful insights and/or repeatable gadgets or processes 
• Lead projects through the full cycle: from initial scoping, solution design, code execution, QA and to operationalization and enablement  
• Leverage latest AI technologies incl. Cloudflare OS, Developer Platform, emerging best practices to illustrate what can be possible in how we work
• Synthesize audience relevant findings from the data to achieve alignments and support strategic decision making 
• Assess financial impact of new initiatives, identify approaches to risk mitigation, create forecast model on new metrics as needed 
• Work closely with Data Engineer and Data Science Team to track core KPIs, create visibility on new initiatives and its impact, and to streamline reporting processes as the projects mature 
• Provide ad-hoc analytical support to Finance & Executive Leadership

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 5+ years of Business Operations, Consulting, Investment Banking or  Strategic Finance experience
• Bachelor's degree, Data Science master or MBA a plus  
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen: ability to zoom in with good attention to detail while still keeping the big picture in mind; excel at translating data into actionable insights or programs 
• Clear, concise and proactive communicator: ability to synthesize complex data or business problems into actionable information to drive results
• Have a strong modeling foundation: high proficiency in building thoughtful, complex and auditable business model and present the outcome in an easy-to-understand format
• Versatility: Results-oriented, self-starter, thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment; high proficiency in SQL or AI assisted coding required
• Advanced/ working proficiency with English mandatory both written and verbal

 

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $130,000 - $179,000

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 future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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