Senior IT Product Manager, Product & Pricing

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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! </span></p> </div></div><p><strong>Available Locations: Austin - US</strong></p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>The IT Product organization is seeking a Sr. IT Product Manager to lead as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the Product Pricing teams including playing a lead role in NPI intake, roadmap planning, operationalizing product sales through technology, and establishing a repeatable NPI-IT intake process. Additionally, the role will be responsible for launching and maintaining an engagement model between IT and the Product and Pricing teams to strengthen the alignment of product release goals, sales enablement, and engineering capacity.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Operates as the trusted partner to both the business (Product and Pricing teams) and IT Enterprise Applications (Engineering team) in managing product strategy, roadmap prioritization, tradeoffs, and overall ownership of the IT Product and Pricing portfolio.</li> <li>Drive the following product outcomes working across all business and technical partners: </li> <ul> <li>Ensure high sales velocity enabling scalable product configuration and pricing strategy execution in sales systems</li> <li>Champion transition to adoption of master data, and attribute/rule-based models for product and pricing extensibility, minimizing bespoke development, and accelerating business releases.</li> <li>Drive efficiency and reduce friction in the Opportunity-to-Cash process while ensuring solutions are fit for high growth, complexity, and enterprise-level governance</li> </ul> <li>Ensure your product users and their use cases are considered working with Enterprise Architecture and partner product teams collaborating on requirements for product and pricing systems (product master, pricing engine, etc.).</li> <li>Operates using a Product Led Growth (PLG) model, partnering with stakeholders to ensure IT teams are focused on the highest priority, most impactful, work.</li> <li>Partners with the business to understand objectives and goals to drive outcomes connecting people, processes, and systems.</li> <li>Leads communication between the business and engineering teams to keep all stakeholders informed and aligned.</li> <li>Communicates business objectives and requirements (BRDs) to engineering and scrum teams to ensure scope is understood and works with the business to resolve any ambiguities. </li> <li>Stays on top of industry trends, bringing learnings and new solutions ideas to the stakeholder team.</li> <li>Leads and nurtures platform vendor relationships including influencing and understanding ... (truncated, view full listing at source)