Principal People Team Business Partner (Director level)

Available Locations: Austin, TX

What You Would Do Here:

Cloudflare is growing our People team. Our focus is finding the best people to work at Cloudflare and then allowing you to do your best work. As we continue to build out our Business Partner team, we are looking for a trusted business partner who is naturally curious about what we do and driven to help our people thrive. In this role, you will report to the VP, HR Business Partners for Go-To-Market and support our strategic initiatives, partnering closely with Go-To-Market leaders. You will be the People Team Business Partner to Marketing and part of the Revenue organization.

You will develop and implement proactive solutions for a broad scope of activities, ensuring alignment on initiatives and priorities, maintaining open and transparent lines of communication and keeping our teams thriving and well supported. You will serve as a strategic partner with strong client partnership based in business acumen. You will focus on organizational design, talent management, and driving initiatives and change leadership.

We passionately believe in leadership at all levels, and our fast growth has created a special opportunity to really enable our team members to acquire new skills and grow on the job. You will help us get better at this by spending time with our people and developing and implementing programs that are responsive to our leaders' needs, role model our company capabilities and will scale as we continue to grow an enterprise business.

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Cloudflarian's thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Cloudflare is not the right place for everyone. Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter). Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change. Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get things done and move forward!

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 minimum 12 years of experience, minimum 5 of which have been as a business partner.


• 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 to problems 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.


• 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 with all of our people 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.


• Demonstrated success utilizing AI as a strategic force multiplier to enhance personal productivity and operational efficiency, while leveraging AI-driven insights to solve complex organizational challenges and support decision-making.