Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning at Cloudflare

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.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations: Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA

About the Department

The Finance & BizOps team provides the financial insights and strategic guidance to shape Cloudflare's growth, profitability, and investment strategy. We’re partners who embed across the business—connecting strategy to execution, driving planning and analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional leaders to develop and deliver key priorities. This team of passionate problem-solvers thrives in a fast-paced environment, designing and implementing high-quality, scalable solutions.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly strategic, analytical, and forward-looking leader to join our team as the Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning. This leader will drive modeling advancements while translating complex outputs into clear, actionable narratives for the executive team.

You will be responsible for designing, owning, and governing the core logic, methodology, and forecast quality of our revenue model, and using this expertise to drive more insightful and impactful modeling techniques across the organization.

This is a pivotal leadership role that will also directly own how we enhance our planning and forecasting capabilities and drive scalability with Anaplan.

What You'll Do

Own the Corporate Revenue Engine: Own and elevate the end-to-end design, execution, and continuous improvement of our revenue forecast. You will lead our monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue planning processes, including variance analysis, scenario planning, and executive-level reporting for all topline metrics

Lead Strategic & Scenario Modeling: Build and maintain robust, multi-scenario models that connect operational KPIs to the financial forecast, enabling real-time scenario planning, delivering high-value insights, and supporting long-range planning, investment prioritization, and executive "what-if" analysis.

Lead the System & Modeling Roadmap: Directly manage the Anaplan COE and own the long-term vision for our finance system. You are responsible for the COE's dual mandate: executing the build of a scalable, automated revenue model while also broadly enabling the entire finance organization.

Drive AI & Transformation: Research, prototype, and champion the adoption and implementation of advanced analytics and AI tools.

Drive Executive-Level Storytelling: Translate complex and often incomplete financial data into a clear, actionable topline narrative. You will be responsible for creating and presenting insights for the executive leadership team, board, and earnings preparation.

Be a Talent Magnet & Leader: Recruit, lead, and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience:

15+ years of progressive experience in a highly analytical, strategic capacity (e.g., Investment Banking, Private Equity, Top-Tier Consulting) or a similar corporate "builder" role, with deep experience in a high-growth, public company SaaS environment.

Financial Modeling Expertise: You are a true master modeler. You must have extensive, from-scratch experience architecting complex, integrated, three-statement financial models for high-growth public companies.

Systems-Thinker & Architect: You think in terms of data pipelines, logic layers, and product roadmaps, not just spreadsheets. You must have deep experience with financial planning applications (Anaplan strongly preferred) and a strong grasp of data structures to effectively design and implement new, scalable systems.

Proven Leader-of-Leaders: Demonstrated success in building and leading high-performance, highly-analytical teams.

World-Class Executive Presence: You must be able to distill complex modeling architecture and simulation outputs into simple, consumable, and actionable takeaways for a C-suite and Board-level audience.

Intellectually Curious & Rigorous: You have a problem-solving orientation and can apply rigorous, first-principles logic to solve multi-faceted problems. You are not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.

BA/BS in a quantitative field

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted based on location:

For the Bay area, the expected salary range is $320,000 - $391,000

For the New York city area, the expected salary range is $303,000 - $371,000

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 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.

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Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning

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