Principal People Team Business Partner - GTM

Cloudflare•Austin, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Cloudflare is growing its People team and is seeking a trusted business partner to support strategic initiatives and partner closely with Go-To-Market leaders. The role involves developing and implementing proactive solutions, ensuring alignment on initiatives and priorities, maintaining open communication, and supporting thriving teams. The position requires a strategic partner with strong business acumen, focusing on organizational design, talent management, and driving change leadership. The role will also involve developing and implementing programs that are responsive to leaders' needs, role-modeling company capabilities, and scaling with the enterprise business. The company culture thrives on change, complexity, and ambiguity, requiring resilience, resourcefulness, critical thought, and the ability to embrace differences.

Requirements

Minimum 12 years of experience on a People/HR team.
Minimum 5 years of experience as a business partner.
Successful history of developing strong relationships and operating effectively through virtual support and in a distributed environment.
Ability to effectively link HR Strategy to business outcomes.
Business first mindset, always looking for ways to enable the business to meet their goals.
Entrepreneurial spirit, always looking for ways to innovate, improve and operate independently.
Ability to present solutions to problems and perceive them as opportunities.
Experience participating in large-scale change initiatives.
Keen business acumen and a track record of partnering closely with business leaders.
Ability to articulate how People teams bring value to an organization.
Ability to quickly develop the business case for People Team initiatives.
Experience building at least one scalable program from the ground up.
Demonstrated history of building relationships and credibility across all levels of an organization.
Skilled communicator, verbally in small and large groups, as well as written through emails and presentations.
Strong face-to-face communication skills, especially when delivering difficult messages.
Generous with time and earns and maintains trust.
Uncompromising integrity, speaks truth, acts with respect and leads with dignity.
Demonstrated success utilizing AI as a strategic force multiplier to enhance personal productivity and operational efficiency.
Leveraging AI-driven insights to solve complex organizational challenges and support decision-making.

Nice To Haves

Motivated by cultivating company culture, building great businesses and helping people do their best work.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement proactive solutions for a broad scope of activities.
Ensure alignment on initiatives and priorities.
Maintain open and transparent lines of communication.
Keep teams thriving and well supported.
Serve as a strategic partner with strong client partnership based in business acumen.
Focus on organizational design, talent management, and driving initiatives and change leadership.
Develop and implement programs that are responsive to leaders' needs.
Role model company capabilities.
Scale programs as the enterprise business grows.
Implement workforce plans.
Leverage subject matter experts and networks to enable programmatic solutions in talent management and workforce planning.
Drive ideation to action on engagement surveys and organizational design.

Benefits

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
Global Travel Medical Insurance
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