Lead Product Designer, Cloudflare
Developer Platform
$192-275k
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Salary dependent on candidates location
2+ days a week in office
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$192-275k
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Salary dependent on candidates location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- If you're a systems-thinking Lead Product Designer who's excited to work on significant, meaningful, and complex problems with real-world impact, come help us make the Internet better! We'd love to hear from you
- Strong user experience and visual design skills, this is an end-to-end UX to UI role
- Proven track record of producing high-quality end-to-end deliverables
- 10+ years working in professional UX or product design roles
- A portfolio or comprehensive presentation of relevant user experience and visual design work is required
- Clearly and effectively formulate direction and strategy for the team to make decisions
- Deep empathy with, and understanding of users’ needs
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Technical expertise and an understanding of designing for developer workflows is a plus
- Previous leadership experience is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Lead Product Designer, you will work closely with other designers, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to drive the best end-to-end experiences for developers.
- Your work will impact the developer experiences of a growing platform of products including Cloudflare Pages, Workers, R2, Databases, Media, AI, and more.
- While this is not a managerial role with direct reports, we expect our Lead Product Designers to lead by example and coach the team into doing their best work
- Lead end-to-end developer experience design, simplifying complex problems through research, sketching, and collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Drive improvements across multiple touch points of the developer experience such as the product dashboard, CLI, documentation, playground, and more
- Partner with product managers and engineering to navigate technical trade-offs, contributing to both near-term and long-term product vision
- Collaborate with other designers on shared patterns, product vision, and design goals, while refining team culture and exporting best practices across the organization
- Facilitate workshops, design reviews, and cross-departmental initiatives, identifying shared dependencies that connect products and services
- Drive adoption of new design tools and methodologies, utilizing data to inform accessible service and interface designs, from research to final product
- Collaborate with designers and leaders across the company to elevate the overall Cloudflare user experience
- Mentor and coach designers, contributing to team growth and scaling design practices through documentation and decision-making frameworks
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- Equal opportunity employer
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
- 401(k) plans
- Family planning and fertility program
- Gym discounts
- Commuter Benefits Program
Company values
- Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
- Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
- Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Lead Engineer)Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(President & COO)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.
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