Product Manager, Application Performance

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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.

Available Locations : Lisbon or London (Hybrid)

About Product Management At Cloudflare

As Product Manager for Cloudflare Spectrum, you will drive the strategy and roadmap for Cloudflare's industry-leading TCP/UDP proxy and Layer 4 security offering. Spectrum extends the power of our global network to protocols beyond HTTP/S, enabling customers to securely and reliably accelerate non-web applications like SSH, gaming servers, custom financial protocols, and IoT devices.

You will be responsible for identifying high-growth use cases, prioritizing features that enhance performance, security, and developer experience, and ensuring Spectrum remains the most flexible and robust solution for proxying arbitrary TCP/UDP traffic at scale.

About The Role

As Product Manager on the Spectrum team, you’ll help shape a key part of our core product experience. This role requires a candidate who can navigate complex technical domains—from TCP/IP protocols and caching architectures to data analytics and user experience—and translate those into clear, marketable features. You will define the roadmap for one or more core services that impact every byte of traffic processed by Cloudflare. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to leverage our massive network footprint and unique traffic insights to deliver features that fundamentally change how the internet operates, ultimately accelerating adoption for customers ranging from individual developers to the world's largest enterprises.

What You’ll Do

• Own your space. You will own the priorities and scope, partnering with a high performing engineering team focused on one of Cloudflare’s Application Performance products.
• Connect the pieces. Product managers are a nerve center at Cloudflare, responsible for connecting engineering, program management, marketing, revenue, and partners to make sure that our ships go out on time and with the maximum impact.
• Excel across teams. Enterprise capabilities cut across all of our product verticals, so you should be comfortable working with product managers across the company to prioritize systemic improvements that our enterprise customers need.
• Be customer obsessed. You will be responsible for directly engaging with customers and understanding how they use our products. You’ll bring these insights back to the team to build a great roadmap.
• Be data driven. You should be comfortable working with data, and analyzing data to quantify the impact of problems and opportunities in your space.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

At Cloudflare, Product Managers are measured both on outcomes (“the what”) and how they accomplish results. Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• 5+ years of experience in product management, solutions engineering, or related roles
• Familiarity with designing or contributing to habit-forming product experiences
• Experience defining and tracking KPIs to measure product or user behavior impact
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with engineering and design teams
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, evolving environments
• A passion for user empathy and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Curiosity and a strong desire to learn technical topics, especially in security or observability
• Engineering fluency - while it’s not required, we tend to find success with candidates who have a technical background, formal or otherwise. You don’t need a CS degree but building credibility with our engineering teams is critical and so some history of technical acumen is a key part of the role.

Bonus points

• Prior experience as a Product Manager driving the roadmap for products focused on Edge infrastructure, high-performance web delivery, or network optimization
• Prior experience delivering cloud infrastructure products at global scale
• Data fluency - Can you work directly with data yourself to build confidence in your views and can you use that same data to persuade others?

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!

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 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. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Product Management and Marketing

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• Technology
• Information and Internet
• Computer and Network Security

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