Planning and Strategy Manager, Cloudflare

• Track record of delivering technical programs, projects, and products in a highly technical dispersed multi-team environment
• BA/BS in Business Administration or Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in planning, prioritization and budgeting for highly cross functional teams
• Minimum 5 years proven experience and proven track record of coordinating project delivery in a dynamic setting
• Strong competency with program management tools (Confluence, JIRA, Smartsheets, etc.) and various methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, etc)
• Highly motivated, self-driven, and able to deal well with ambiguity
• Excellent technical, problem-solving and partnering skills
• Proven ability to clearly and concisely communicate with an executive audience in both written and verbal communications
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to research issues, make evaluations on problems and recommend viable solutions

Desirable

• Your main role will be to work with the team to plan, strategize, and manage programs to successful completion
• You bring a passion for matching up business needs with building technically innovative solutions, and excel at shifting between the two—understanding how big-picture goals inform technical details, and vice-versa
• Establishes and maintains relationships with various business teams, and drives various highly cross-functional platform and business initiatives
• Help prioritize Business Intelligence projects and initiatives with various business, product and engineering teams
• Gathers business requirements and assists with translating requirements into future state design options
• Works with business partners in defining program scope and requirements, creating both high-level and detailed plans, build strategies and executing to committed schedules
• Develops a detailed project plan to track progress and identifies necessary resources and plans to achieve successful delivery
• Help drive year end planning and budgeting with the leadership team
• Owns program status and drives completion in accordance with deadlines, ensures that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Performs risk management to minimize program risks, tracks deliverables, evaluates timelines and creates mitigation plans with internal teams and vendors
• Collaborates with other Business PMs on internal processes, tools and workflows across multiple teams and functions across Cloudflare, in support of BI governance and project management methodologies, processes and procedures
• Delivers outstanding communication, problem-solving, analytical and program management skills
• Works independently in a dynamic and high-pressure environment and timely delivery despite ambiguous and changing business requirements