Product Manager, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Available Locations: Hybrid - San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Washington D.C., New York, Champaign

About The Role

We are hiring a Product Manager for Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI). CNI enables enterprises to directly connect their on-prem and cloud infrastructure to Cloudflare, providing dedicated, reliable, high-capacity connectivity to our suite of networking and security services.

CNI is a key part of Cloudflare’s full stack of networking-as-a-service products, which allow customers to build and operate secure, reliable, and fast networks without purchasing traditional network hardware. Cloudflare’s network underpins mission-critical infrastructure, always-on applications, small businesses, and everything in between. Our customers rely on the performance, security, reliability, and visibility provided by our network to power their business.

As Product Manager for Cloudflare Network Interconnect, your job will be to:

• Build innovative solutions to customers’ networking problems that leverage the unique strengths of Cloudflare: a massive, highly interconnected network spanning the world, intelligence distilled from an unparalleled vantage point on the Internet, and a high-velocity engineering organization that ships early and often.
• Think through how to make a great, easy-to-use product that customers love, and drive the full product life cycle from core user needs discovery through to pricing and packaging. Ship continuous software and process improvements to support your products’ sustained growth.

What You’ll Do

As a member of the growing team of product managers your responsibilities include:

• Own the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision.
• 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 other 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 bring new products to market that solve real customer problems.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

You are entrepreneurial-minded and thrive in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment. You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and are able to work with a diverse group, get consensus, and drive the product forward. You are execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details. You have several years of experience working with enterprise, SaaS, or security technologies. You have a passion for building SaaS products and want to solve the problems of performance, security, and reliability of the Internet.

• Minimum 4 years of product management or equivalent experience (for this role, equivalent experience includes network and/or datacenter engineering or operations) with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products.
• Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices and network/data center engineering. You've preferably been working full time on a software delivery or network operations team.
• 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.
• Deep 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.
• Experience working with data analysis at scale. An understanding of how to make big data small.

Bonus Points

• Experience in building or operating large-scale IP networks. Specific expertise in BGP and DNS a plus.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of how the Internet works at layers 1 through 7.
• Capacity planning, cost modeling, and operations research experience.
• Scripting/programming experience (Python, Go, etc.) and familiarity with data analysis tools (eg SQL, pandas).
• Hands-on experience with tools used for interacting with, debugging, and testing networks and applications (e.g. curl, dig, mtr, iperf, Wireshark, etc.)
• Ability to validate early ideas through quantitative and qualitative methods (A/B and multivariate testing, user testing, etc).
• Scripting/programming experience
• A solid understanding of RESTful API design & documentation.
• Experience developing pricing for new enterprise SaaS products.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $140,000 - $172,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $158,000 - $193,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $166,000 - $202,000

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!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

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

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave