Senior Director, Executive Communications

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. 

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations

• San Francisco, CA

About the role

Cloudflare is looking for a Senior Director of Executive Communications to scale our global Executive Communications Program. This is an exciting opportunity to lead executive communications for a prominent leader pioneering the field, Cloudflare’s co-founder and President-helping to tell her story and share her expertise internally and externally. This role will also be thearchitect behind our broader executive communications strategy -building the frameworks, training, and programs raising the bar for how our entire leadership team communicates globally.

We are looking for a seasoned, highly strategic communicator who can effortlessly pivot between deep-tech and mainstream storytelling. Additionally, the ideal candidate is AI-forward-someone who naturally embraces and leverages AI tools to streamline production, scale output, and optimize executive workflows.

This role reports to the Vice President, Global Head of Communications, and sits within a fast-paced, award-winning team.

Responsibilities

• Office of the President Partnership: Lead all aspects of communications pertaining to the Office of the President, including related media relations, speaking engagements, public appearances, employee communications, stakeholder engagement, social media, planning, and personal branding.
• Build & Scale the Executive Comms Program: Create the blueprint for a broader executive communications program. Establish the core playbooks, central messaging pillars, and training frameworks used to uplevel spokesperson readiness across Cloudflare's leadership.
• Master the Audience Pivot: Seamlessly translate highly complex technical concepts (such as AI, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure) into engaging, accessible narratives for mainstream business audiences and media-without losing the technical rigor that developer audiences expect.
• Streamline via AI Integration: Actively champion and integrate generative AI tools into your daily workflow to research, draft, iterate, and scale executive content efficiently.
• End-to-End Preparation: Manage and strategically plan all aspects of how the executive prepares for, shows up at, and maximizes her presence at appearances, events, and communications-focused engagements.
• Content Creation: Craft compelling executive messaging, narratives, keynotes, op-eds, and content across internal and external communication channels.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the executive admin team to ensure alignment with the President’s calendar and trips, while working closely with key PR, IR, and Employee Comms stakeholders to streamline and curate strategic brand narratives.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Seasoned Comms Experience: 10+ years of experience working in executive communications for CEOs, top C-level public-company leaders, or international public figures.
• The "Translator" Ability: Proven success communicating both to highly technical audiences (developers, IT leaders) and mainstream business/consumer audiences.
• AI-Forward Mindset: Demonstrable experience utilizing AI productivity and writing tools to scale executive communications workflows and drive efficiency.
• Programmatic & Project Management Acumen: Experience building communication programs or initiatives from the ground up, with a high level of project management discipline across multiple global teams.
• Impeccable Craft: Exceptional communication, writing, and presentation skills-with a highly tailored approach to crafting various storylines, speeches, and presentations for unique executive talk tracks. 
• Proactive & Agile: Creative, hardworking, and flexible professionalism-you thrive in a fast-paced environment and anticipate the next move before it happens. Highly organized when it comes to future vision and daily details.
• Global Perspective & Presence: Experience leading initiatives across international teams, with a willingness to travel regularly.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $226,000 - $310,000

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

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 released1.1.1.1 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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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