Cloudflare · 3 days ago
Senior Product Manager; Load Balancing
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$202K/yr - $246K/yr
5+ years expCloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet, running one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for building products that enhance the way the Internet works, collaborating across teams, and ensuring the product vision aligns with customer needs and company goals.
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Responsibilities
Own the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision
Be an expert on the domain, the market, the trends. Evangelize the vision constantly so all stakeholders are aligned, have context and understand where we are going
Represent the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build intimate, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process
Manage the roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap
Author use cases and prioritize requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog. Author use cases based on specific real-world product applications and extrapolate detailed product requirements for the scenarios
Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job
Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses
Develop new opportunities. With your finger on the pulse of the market, the customers and the engineering teams, you are uniquely positioned to discover and develop new opportunities
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field
Experience in building, configuring or using Load Balancing products, specifically with a focus with both public and private traffic load balancing
5+ years of product management or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills
Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
Must be able to define and manage complex process and/or product issues of a broad scope using independent judgment
Experience balancing execution, agility, and culture at a fast growing business
Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You've preferably been working full time on a software delivery team
Strong customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be not only the voice of the customer, but at various times the voice of marketing, finance, engineering, support and ops. You must be able to channel many points of view
Working knowledge of how the internet works at layers 3 through 7
Preferred
A solid understanding of RESTful API design & documentation
Ability to validate early ideas through quantitative and qualitative methods (A/B and multivariate testing, user testing, etc). Experience in user experience (UX) design a plus
Hands-on experience with command-line tools used for interacting with APIs, debugging and testing (e.g. curl, dig, etc.)
Scripting/programming experience (Python, Go, etc.) and/or experience with web frameworks
Domain expertise (e.g. as a practitioner or technology provider) in several of: HTTP content delivery, network performance, browser technologies and Internet security
Pricing strategy and revenue forecasting experience
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
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Company
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M
Leadership Team
Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
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