Principal People Team Business Partner - R&D

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: 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 Director of People Team Business Partners - RD (Americas) - and support our strategic initiatives, partnering closely with leadership across our RD Teams. You will be the People Team Business Partner to help support our Product, Engineering and Security Teams. 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. *** Please note a cover letter is required to be considered for this position. *** 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 12+ years of experience, 5+ of which have been as a senior 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 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 and are able to navigate through it to get things across t ... (truncated, view full listing at source)