Principal People Team Business Partner id-6331

April 10, 2025

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

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Who You Are:

Motivated by cultivating company culture, building great businesses and helping people do their best work, you have served on a People/ HR team for 12+ years of experience, 5+ of which have been as a senior business partner.
Must have experience supporting G&A functions.
You have a successful history of developing strong relationships and operating effectively through virtual support and in a distributed environment.
You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are always looking for ways to innovate, improve and operate independently.
You think of and present solutions and don’t get bogged down by problems, rather perceive them as opportunities.
You have participated in large-scale change initiatives and have a few stories about leading a few. You know what complexity looks like and are able to navigate through it to get things across the finish line.
You have a keen business acumen and a track record of partnering closely with business leaders. You can articulate how People teams bring value to an organization and are able to quickly develop the business case for People Team initiatives.
You have built at least one scalable program from the ground up and have a demonstrated history of building relationships and credibility across all levels of an organization.
You are an influencer that leads with empathy. Others have described you as skilled in implementing workforce plans, leveraging subject matter experts and your network to enable programmatic solutions in talent management, workforce planning - think ideation to action on engagement surveys, organizational design, as two examples.
You are a skillful communicator, verbally in small and large groups, as well as written through emails and presentations. Your super strength, especially when the message may be difficult, is face-to-face.
You are generous with your time and earn and maintain the trust that people place with you.
Uncompromising when it comes to your integrity, you speak truth, act with respect and lead with dignity.
You love working with people - you maybe secretly love working with spreadsheets too!

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

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.

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