Product Manager – Network Insights

About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet.

Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes.

We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that.

We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team.

We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare.

Come join us!
Product Manager, Network Insights
About The Department
As a Product Manager at Cloudflare, you are responsible for building products that improve the way that the Internet works.

Product Managers at Cloudflare sit at the intersection of software development, design, and business strategy.

We shape high-level product goals but are also hands on.

On an average day, you might pitch a concept to senior leadership, create a launch plan with marketing, work with designers to conduct user research, prototype a new feature, iterate on a spec, analyze usage data, and pair with an engineer on implementation.

We have ultimate responsibility for understanding our client needs, influencing business strategy, feature specification, and working with engineering to develop our software.
About The Role
We are hiring a PM to lead a new product that will give customers deeper insights into how their network operates on Cloudflare.

Cloudflare provides a full stack of networking-as-a-service products that 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 visibility provided by our network to understand threats to their business, and opportunities to make their operations faster, more reliable, and more secure.
Today, getting visibility into the traffic flowing across our network can be expensive and cumbersome.

We want to provide customers tools to both build their networks on Cloudflare and observe how their network is operating without the need for cumbersome hardware or multiple vendors.
If people complain about a slow or unreliable experience: can we help customers pinpoint where exactly in their network or on the Internet things are slow?

Can we give customers the tools to make things faster on their own?

When a customer experiences a data breach, or other compromise: How can we help the customer quickly pinpoint how they were attacked and what vulnerability was used?

If a customer relies on us to filter traffic, how do we provide them assurance we are dropping the bad and keeping the good?

We’re looking for a PM who can define the vision for the next generation of our network visibility tools, and help own and ship a major new product in this space.

You will own the full product life cycle from core user needs discovery through to pricing and packaging.

You’ll be expected to think through all aspects of the product including understanding customers and existing solutions in the market, understanding costs and pricing, and of course how to make a great, easy-to-use product that customers love.
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.

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 bring new products to market that solve real customer problems.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
You are entrepreneurial-minded and thrives 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.
2+ 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 and data systems.

You’ve preferably been working full time on a software delivery team.

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

You think it’s fun to analyze data in SQL/R/Python/Matlab in your free time.

Theoretical and practical knowledge of how the Internet works at layers 1 through 7.

Hands-on experience with technology for data storage and analysis.

Experience in building or operating large-scale IP networks.

Specific expertise in BGP and DNS a plus.

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 (Python, Go, etc.).

A solid understanding of RESTful API design & documentation.

Experience developing pricing for new enterprise SaaS products.

Capacity planning, cost modeling, and operations research experience.

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 : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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 : We created 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.
Path Forward Partnership : Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
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