Sr. Leader, Public Relations

Job Description

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 trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list.

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!

About the Role:

Cloudflare is looking for a senior manager/director to help scale our PR program internally and externally. This is a great opportunity to help shape our global story and to help manage our global agency teams. In this role you’ll get to work with a wide range of Cloudflare executives across technical, legal/policy, and regional teams. The ideal candidate has broad public relations experience with deep expertise in the following areas: product, executive, crisis, and international communications. You’ll be a key member of our award-winning in-house communications team, and will work with a wide range of executives and teams to develop messaging, strategy, and results from concept to completion.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with senior leadership, sales, regional leads, legal/policy, and other functions to support the business from a communications perspective
• Build global programs, processes and strategy with/for teams including public relations, and executive communications
• Help manage PR operations including editorial calendar, content, execution, and reporting
• Write press releases, blogs and other materials to support global communications initiatives
• Develop strategies and help manage day-to-day execution for global public relations programs (experience leading global programs/agency teams is important)
• Maintain strong media relationships across all types of media outlets, develop story ideas, and manage stories
• Organize press briefings, media sessions, and PR-focused events
• Support and help manage key executive spokespeople

Requirements:

• BA/BS in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or Marketing preferred
• 8-10 years experience in high-tech public relations experience, with a mixture of in-house B2B and agency experience
• Showcase strong management skills, with high degrees of organization
• Ability to operate independently and as a team in “the trenches”— we’re a dynamic team and everyone pitches in to get the job done
• Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Creative, hardworking, and flexible professionalism—you are able to thrive in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Impeccable and thoughtful critical thinking
• Strong project management experience and attention to detail is a must
• Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and communicate priorities effectively
• Experience managing PR programs inside and outside of the US—APAC and EMEA experience is important
• Ability to understand and operate in a highly technical environment
• Some travel required

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.

Project Athenian : 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.

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 policy 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!

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.

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