The Senior Technical Program Manager will oversee security compliance projects, align stakeholders, manage timelines and budgets, and provide executive summaries.
Available Locations: Austin, Washington D.C.
About the Department
Security at Cloudflare is a diverse, focused team committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers. The Technical Program Management team helps connect the dots between threats, compliance controls, business needs, and innovation to execute on reducing risk at Cloudflare while partnering to build the best solutions for our customers.
About the Role
We need to solve big security challenges at scale. As a Technical Program Manager focused on Compliance, you will help discover, define, and drive the execution of security compliance projects to reduce risk at Cloudflare. You will work with the Security team and all of our stakeholders to:
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
About the Department
Security at Cloudflare is a diverse, focused team committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers. The Technical Program Management team helps connect the dots between threats, compliance controls, business needs, and innovation to execute on reducing risk at Cloudflare while partnering to build the best solutions for our customers.
About the Role
We need to solve big security challenges at scale. As a Technical Program Manager focused on Compliance, you will help discover, define, and drive the execution of security compliance projects to reduce risk at Cloudflare. You will work with the Security team and all of our stakeholders to:
- Partner with the Governance Risk and Compliance team as their dedicated Technical Program Manager
- Connect with Cloudflare's many teams through expert communication and diplomacy to maintain alignment and encourage collaboration
- Support the long term program roadmap planning, manage project updates aligned with the roadmap and report on project level OKRs
- Manage projects with tight deadlines and changing priorities, effectively balancing risk to achieve business objectives
- Identify stakeholders and drive alignment, including dependency identification and tracking
- Generate cadenced program updates, reports, and metrics that provide executive and board level summaries
- Manage change to scope, timeline, key results/outcomes and budget
- Maintain a project management framework using milestones, communication plans, decision logs, issues, risks, etc.
- Balance the focus on long term vision and roadmap versus addressing high risk tactical security issues
- 8-10+ years of experience in technical program management and a desire for continuous improvement
- Experience in cybersecurity or compliance, including experience directly supporting federal security programs (FedRAMP High/Moderate, DoD IL4)
- BS+ in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or related field or equivalent experience
- Proven track record of creating realistic project plans, managing dependencies, and overseeing execution to meet commitments with predictability.
- Excellent oral and written communication, proven track record of effective communication at various levels including executive level
- Comfortable managing tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ambiguity.
- Proven ability to forge and sustain effective partnerships internally and externally
- Strong competency with Confluence and JIRA and various development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Kaizen, Scrum, etc).
- Willingness to learn and continuously improve
- Embraces technology including automation and AI augmentation
- Highly skilled communicator and influencer with the ability to reflect and question positively and effectively
- Experience working with multiple time zones and cross-functional teams.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Washington D.C. based hires: Estimated annual salary of $158,000-$218,000
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
Top Skills
Agile
Confluence
JIRA
Kaizen
Scrum
Waterfall
Cloudflare Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80014
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