VP, Talent Acquisition & Strategy

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.

About The Role

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 priority. 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.

Responsibilities

• Treat our candidates and hiring managers as your ultimate customers. You will design the entire talent acquisition architecture by thinking backward from their experience—ensuring unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone’s time.
• Ruthlessly eliminate "process for process's sake." You believe that workflows exist to enable great hiring, not to create bureaucratic hurdles. You will empower your team to be agile, adaptive, and focused on delivering high-quality matches rather than checking compliance boxes.
• 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. Instrument key metrics—funnel health, passive-to-active conversion velocity, segment-specific time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire at the 6 and 12-month marks—to continuously tune the engine.
• Deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops to free up your team for deep relationship building.
• Earn deep trust with our organizations through genuine technical fluency.
• Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations, advising leaders on global talent pool elasticity, compensation trends, and site selection before hiring needs even arise.
• 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 (GDPR, pay transparency, local employment laws) across the US, EMEA, and APAC.
• Run early-career, university, and diversity recruiting initiatives with the same structured, metrics-driven approach applied to our senior staff engineering hires.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

• Ideal Non-Traditional Backgrounds: We highly value senior people leaders from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales or corporate strategy environments, other functions within people leadership, where problem-solving begins with systems-level modeling, rigorous data diagnostics, and structural thinking.
• 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 with clear intent and structure.
• Compensation Architecture Fluency: Strong familiarity with market data platforms (Radford, Levels.fyi, Carta) and an understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands to help structure complex executive offers seamlessly.
• Global Scope: Direct experience scaling international tech hubs (specifically across EMEA and APJC), including a strong working knowledge of cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000 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!

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!

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!

Application Instructions

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. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.