Director, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

About the role

Cloudflare is seeking a Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations to serve as a key leader on our Investor Relations team. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Finance, Treasury, Deal Desk, & Investor Relations and is responsible for the end-to-end quarterly earnings cycle, long-term financial model development, and direct communication with the CFO, CEO, and senior leadership.

• Own the end-to-end quarterly earnings process, including press release, supplemental financial information, prepared remarks, Q&A prep, investor deck, and supporting validation work.
• Partner with the CFO and senior leadership to develop guidance (including share count forecasting) and executive-facing materials that frame guidance decisions, sensitivity ranges, and trade-offs in communication.
• Lead the Q&A preparation process, anticipated questions, suggested answers, peer transcript triangulation, key stats and proof points, and live-call backup material.
• Drive earnings materials validation, ensuring consistency and accuracy across various documents.
• Engage with sell-side analysts and institutional investors, building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Prepare CEO, CFO, and other senior executives for investor interactions with tailored briefing materials, talking points, and Q&A prep.
• Develop and maintain core IR collateral, such as investor presentations, fact sheets, IR website content, and board-of-directors investor update materials.
• Co-lead the planning and execution of the annual Investor Day, including invite tracker and registration management, content creation, logistics, and post-event follow-up.
• Lead select strategic finance projects, such as peer benchmarking analyses, long-range financial modeling, competitive analyses, and ad-hoc executive-level financial analyses.
• Be a trusted partner to Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, FP&A, and the executive team, ensuring every number, claim, and disclosure is accurate.
• Maintain the internal analytical infrastructure, including models, dashboards, trackers, and validation systems.
• Drive the IR function's use of AI-native tooling and automation, treating modern tools as a force multiplier on insight, productivity, accuracy, and stakeholder communications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience combining investor relations, equity research, investment banking, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing, preferably with meaningful time in-house at a high-growth public technology company.
• Deep technical fluency with public-company reporting, financial statements, capital markets, valuation methodologies, and SaaS/consumption-based revenue models.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft in the voice of senior executives and translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear narratives for non-technical audiences.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, fluency in building, maintaining, and stress-testing operating models, share-count and dilution forecasts, guidance sensitivity analyses, and consensus benchmarks.
• An ownership mindset, comfort owning a process end-to-end, driving operational structure in a fast-paced environment, and operating with the integrity and accuracy demanded by external disclosure.
• A high-trust collaboration ability, the ability to build credibility quickly with senior internal stakeholders and external stakeholders.
• AI-native curiosity and skill, fluency with modern AI tooling and a track record of using it to amplify your impact.

Pay

• Bay Area: Estimated annual salary of $200,000 - $275,000
• New York City: Estimated annual salary of $190,000 - $262,000

Benefits

• 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