# VP, Talent Acquisition & Strategy

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $375k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Talent Acquisition Strategy, Global Talent Operations, Executive Leadership, Data-Driven Recruiting, Ai Agent Deployment, Compensation Architecture, Employer Branding, Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Management, Market Intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-06-15

> Lead Cloudflare's global talent acquisition function, designing AI-first hiring systems and building predictive multi-year talent strategy aligned with product roadmaps. Partner with executives to optimize human capital deployment while scaling international operations.

## Job Description

## What you’ll own

### 1. Customer Obsession & Outcome-Driven Systems
- Design the entire talent acquisition architecture by thinking backward from candidate and hiring manager experience
- Ensure unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone’s time
- Ruthlessly eliminate "process for process's sake" and empower the team to focus on delivering high-quality matches

### 2. Talent System Architecture & Strategic Planning
- Partner with executive leadership to translate Cloudflare’s long-term product roadmaps and financial models into a predictive, multi-year global talent strategy
- Build and monitor a highly data-driven talent funnel with metrics including funnel health, passive-to-active conversion velocity, segment-specific time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire at 6 and 12-month marks
- Deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops

### 3. High-Credibility Partnerships
- Earn deep trust with organizations through genuine technical fluency
- Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations, advising leaders on global talent pool elasticity, compensation trends, and site selection

### 4. Global Operations & Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and elevate a global team of recruiters, technical sourcers, operational specialists
- Maintain uncompromised data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, pay transparency, local employment laws) across the US, EMEA, and APAC

### Employer Brand as a Product
- Position Cloudflare’s employer brand as an authentic reflection of culture, attracting builders and sellers passionate about shaping an AI-first Internet
- Run early-career, university, and diversity recruiting initiatives with structured, metrics-driven approach

## Highly Valued Signals
- Senior people leadership experience from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales, or corporate strategy environments
- Prior leadership experience at a SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, or consumer company where keeping a world-class technical bar is foundational
- Experience guiding talent operations through corporate reorganizations, high-growth scaling phases, or post-acquisition integrations
- Strong familiarity with market data platforms (Radford, Levels.fyi, Carta) and understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands
- Direct experience scaling international tech hubs across EMEA and APJC, including cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices

## Compensation & Benefits
- For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000
- Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan
- 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
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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