# Principal People Team Business Partner - R&D

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** People Ops
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Hr Business Partnering, Organizational Design, Talent Management, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Change Management, Data Analytics, AI Tools, Strategic Advisory, Executive Communication
**Posted:** 2026-06-21

> Strategic HR Business Partner to R&D leadership, driving organizational design, talent strategy, workforce planning, and large-scale change initiatives aligned to business goals.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

- Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to R&D executive leadership, translating business objectives into long-term workforce strategies, organizational designs, and succession plans.
- Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Synthesize complex qualitative and quantitative data—leveraging AI-driven insights and engagement analytics—to proactively identify trends, mitigate risks, and design predictive people solutions.
- Change Leadership: Guide leadership and teams through structural evolutions, hyper-growth scaling, and shifting business priorities with minimal disruption to engagement and output.
- Talent & Capability Building: Partner with business leaders and People team Centers of Excellence (COEs) to design high-impact initiatives around talent development, performance elevation, and total rewards.

## Requirements

- 12+ years of progressive experience on a People/HR team, with at least 3+ years operating as a principal business partner backing complex, fast-paced corporate functions.
- Keen business acumen linking HR strategy to commercial and operational outcomes.
- Experience leading large-scale change initiatives through highly ambiguous environments.
- Proven track record building scalable, enterprise-grade programs from the ground up.
- Experience establishing credibility and trust across all levels of a distributed, virtual organization.
- Masterful communicator—presenting to executives, writing strategic proposals, delivering difficult feedback.
- High integrity with a commitment to speaking truth to power and acting with respect.

## Nice-to-Haves

- AI & Tech Savvy: Embrace modern innovation, utilizing AI and advanced digital tooling as strategic force multipliers.
- Relentlessly curious about technology, team operations, and people dynamics.
- Experience synthesizing data to diagnose root causes and design predictive people solutions.

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