Senior Manager, Integrated Network Strategy

About the role

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced, action-oriented leader to serve as the primary strategic network lead for our Latin America (LATAM) infrastructure footprint. This role acts as a critical liaison between Cloudflare and LATAM’s major Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecom operators, commercial datacenter providers, and transport carriers. You will provide strategic leadership and regional expertise to align network growth, scale infrastructure capacity, and support high-performing digital services across the region. Available Locations: Austin, US.

Responsibilities

• Executive Partnership Alignment: Build and maintain strategic relationships with executive stakeholders across top regional ISPs, telecommunications operators, and infrastructure partners to drive scalable network alignment and long-term stability.
• Capacity Scaling & Peering Expansion: Drive initiatives to scale up localized peering and transit capacity with major eyeball networks across LATAM to support growing traffic demand, improve performance, and enhance latency.
• Infrastructure Strategy & Colocation Liaison: Collaborate with regional datacenter, colocation, and transport providers to ensure optimal infrastructure positioning, redundancy, and expansion readiness in key regional hubs.
• Technical & Operational Leadership: Act as an advisor to technical and operations teams on network health, traffic management, and routing optimization to safeguard network integrity and service reliability.
• Regional Market Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as an internal subject matter expert for global network engineering, transport, and commercial teams, providing market context and operational guidance across diverse LATAM markets.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal commercial, channel, and engineering leadership to align infrastructure enablement with strategic regional goals.

Requirements

• Leadership Experience: 15+ years of strategic leadership experience in telecommunications, interconnection/peering, datacenter colocation, or digital infrastructure across LATAM.
• Partner Relationships: Extensive experience engaging with senior leadership at major telecommunications operators and service providers across key LATAM markets.
• Technical SME: Strong understanding of IP routing (BGP), IXPs, DNS, traffic engineering, and content delivery networks.
• Multilingual Capability: Professional fluency in English and Spanish is required; Portuguese fluency is preferred.
• Collaboration & Execution: Proven track record of driving cross-functional alignment and managing complex strategic initiatives across regional and global stakeholders.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the growth and resilience of global internet infrastructure across Latin America.
• High-visibility strategic leadership role working with key industry partners.
• Dynamic, fast-paced environment at the forefront of digital connectivity and edge computing.
• 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