Description
Job Description
About Us
Cloudflare is 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.
The Mission
This is an invitation to redefine workforce architecture for the AI era. Cloudflare is reimagining every internal process, from engineering to finance to sales, to run on an agentic AI backbone. We are building the global teams and talent ecosystems that will define what Cloudflare looks like for the next decade of the Internet. Getting top talent here is our number one priority.
Responsibilities
As our Vice President of Talent Acquisition & Strategy, you will be the chief architect of our human capital infrastructure and lead a global team of customer-obsessed recruiters and operators. You will design a predictive, highly automated talent system,one that maps company growth to workforce requirements, isolates where human judgment is irreplaceable, and deploys AI agents to handle the repetitive mechanics.
Key Areas of Ownership:
- Customer Obsession & Outcome-Driven Systems
- Design the entire talent acquisition architecture with the candidate and hiring manager experience in mind.
- Ensure unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone's time.
- Ruthlessly eliminate 'process for process's sake' and empower your team to be agile and adaptive.
- Talent System Architecture & Strategic Planning
- Partner with executive leadership to translate Cloudflare's long-term product roadmaps and financial models into a predictive, multi-year global talent strategy.
- Build and monitor a highly data-driven talent funnel.
- Deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops.
- High-Credibility Partnerships
- Earn deep trust with our organizations through genuine technical fluency.
- Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations.
- Global Operations & Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and elevate a global team of recruiters, technical sourcers, operational specialists, and passionate members of our team globally.
- Maintain uncompromised data privacy and regulatory compliance across the US, EMEA, and APAC.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family, including health & welfare benefits, financial benefits, and time off.
Requirements
- Ideal non-traditional backgrounds: Senior people leaders from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales, or corporate strategy environments.
- Infrastructure tech deep roots: Prior leadership experience at a SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, consumer company where keeping a world-class technical bar is foundational to the company's success.
- Organizational agility: Experience successfully guiding talent operations through corporate reorganizations, high-growth scaling phases, or post-acquisition integrations.
- Compensation architecture fluency: Strong familiarity with market data platforms and an understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands.
- Global scope: Direct experience scaling international tech hubs, including a strong working knowledge of cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices.
Compensation
- For New York City-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000.
- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.