People Project Manager at Cloudflare

Available Locations: Remote US

About the Role

Cloudflare is seeking a highly skilled and technically-oriented project manager to lead and manage global People team projects. You will drive project excellence and help the People function execute more efficiently against global and cross-functional initiatives. You will be able to work with the entire People Leadership team to lead and manage our most impactful People projects from initiation to completion, ensuring timely delivery within scope and budget. Having recently exceeded $1 billion in revenue, this Project Manager will be joining at an exciting point of growth as Cloudflare plans to scale to $5 billion in revenue, and from 3,800 to 10,000 employees, in the next five years. Our focus is finding the best people to work at Cloudflare and enabling them to do their best work. As we continue to grow, scale and mature our operations, we are looking for a proven Project Manager who is highly organized and motivated to solve tough problems that come with fast-growing, dynamic and global teams. 

• In this role, you will report to the Head of People Operations, leading complex and cross-functional initiatives that support our broader People team strategy.
• This is an exciting opportunity to partner with all People team functions and our cross-functional partners, serving as a project leader in establishing and teaching project management methodologies and tools that help the People function execute projects optimally. 
• You will also help manage our People team planning process, publishing our People team goals and establishing a cadence of regularly reviewing progress and ensuring initiatives stay on track.
• You will help tell our story and convey key messages by developing slides for company-wide presentations. 
• We passionately believe in leadership at all levels, and our fast growth creates special opportunities to really stretch our team members to acquire new skills and grow on the job. We are looking for candidates that are agile, able to move with speed, and balance between presenting to senior executives while at the same time diving deep into the details of the project plan.

Responsibilities

• Ensure strategic priorities are met by aligning projects to company and People team goals.
• Develop detailed project plans, outlining tasks, timelines, and resource requirements. Identify and mitigate project risks early, engaging the appropriate stakeholders.
• Implement change management strategies, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruptions to daily operations.
• Partner across various stakeholders in the business as well as across People functions to gather key requirements and gain support for the change prior to release.
• Utilize data-driven insights to monitor project performance and make informed decisions.
• Prepare regular reports and presentations for senior management, highlighting project milestones and outcomes.
• Develop exec-level presentation slides for broad consumption that tell a compelling story.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• • 10+ yrs managing high-impact projects with multiple stakeholders and business functions.
  • Proven working experience as a project manager in the technology sector, preferably with an international consulting firm
  • Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining project resources and planning tools e.g. project plan, scope, status updates, resource plans, risk plans with associated mitigations.
  • Expert level slide making capability
  • Self-starter who’s able to execute with minimal supervision and some ambiguity
  • Experience in driving collaboration, accountability, decision making and governance toward project outcomes
  • Deep familiarity with different project methodologies (agile, waterfall, etc) and able to draw best practices to create solutions that make sense for Cloudflare.