[Remote] Senior Product Manager; Load Balancing
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloudflare is a leading internet security and performance company dedicated to building a better Internet. As a Senior Product Manager for Load Balancing, you will be responsible for shaping product vision, representing customer needs, managing the product roadmap, and collaborating across teams to ensure successful product development.
Responsibilities
ā¢ Own the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision
ā¢ Be an expert on the domain, the market, the trends. Evangelize the vision constantly so all stakeholders are aligned, have context and understand where we are going
ā¢ Represent the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build intimate, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process
ā¢ Manage the roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap
ā¢ Author use cases and prioritize requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog. Author use cases based on specific real-world product applications and extrapolate detailed product requirements for the scenarios
ā¢ Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job
ā¢ Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses
ā¢ Develop new opportunities. With your finger on the pulse of the market, the customers and the engineering teams, you are uniquely positioned to discover and develop new opportunities
Skills
ā¢ BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field
ā¢ Experience in building, configuring or using Load Balancing products, specifically with a focus with both public and private traffic load balancing
ā¢ 5+ years of product management or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
ā¢ Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills
ā¢ Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
ā¢ Must be able to define and manage complex process and/or product issues of a broad scope using independent judgment
ā¢ Experience balancing execution, agility, and culture at a fast growing business
ā¢ Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You've preferably been working full time on a software delivery team
ā¢ Strong customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be not only the voice of the customer, but at various times the voice of marketing, finance, engineering, support and ops. You must be able to channel many points of view
ā¢ Working knowledge of how the internet works at layers 3 through 7
ā¢ A solid understanding of RESTful API design & documentation
ā¢ Ability to validate early ideas through quantitative and qualitative methods (A/B and multivariate testing, user testing, etc). Experience in user experience (UX) design a plus
ā¢ Hands-on experience with command-line tools used for interacting with APIs, debugging and testing (e.g. curl, dig, etc.)
ā¢ Scripting/programming experience (Python, Go, etc.) and/or experience with web frameworks
ā¢ Domain expertise (e.g. as a practitioner or technology provider) in several of: HTTP content delivery, network performance, browser technologies and Internet security
ā¢ Pricing strategy and revenue forecasting experience
Benefits
ā¢ Medical/Rx Insurance
ā¢ Dental Insurance
ā¢ Vision Insurance
ā¢ Flexible Spending Accounts
ā¢ Commuter Spending Accounts
ā¢ Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
ā¢ On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
ā¢ Global Travel Medical Insurance
ā¢ Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
ā¢ Life & Accident Insurance
ā¢ 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
ā¢ Employee Stock Participation Plan
ā¢ Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
ā¢ Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Company Overview
ā¢ Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.cloudflare.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
ā¢ Cloudflare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 117 in 2025, 115 in 2024, 66 in 2023, 98 in 2022, 83 in 2021, 37 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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Responsibilities
ā¢ Own the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision
ā¢ Be an expert on the domain, the market, the trends. Evangelize the vision constantly so all stakeholders are aligned, have context and understand where we are going
ā¢ Represent the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build intimate, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process
ā¢ Manage the roadmap. Make tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap
ā¢ Author use cases and prioritize requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog. Author use cases based on specific real-world product applications and extrapolate detailed product requirements for the scenarios
ā¢ Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Product managers play a critical role in creating alignment between engineering teams and stakeholders. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job
ā¢ Measure success. Own the measures used to define success for your product. Success measures must be defined at the inception of a product and tracked throughout its lifecycle. Make measures visible to all stakeholders and interpret them into actionable conclusions and new hypotheses
ā¢ Develop new opportunities. With your finger on the pulse of the market, the customers and the engineering teams, you are uniquely positioned to discover and develop new opportunities
Skills
ā¢ BS/MS in a technology- or business-related field
ā¢ Experience in building, configuring or using Load Balancing products, specifically with a focus with both public and private traffic load balancing
ā¢ 5+ years of product management or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
ā¢ Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills
ā¢ Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
ā¢ Must be able to define and manage complex process and/or product issues of a broad scope using independent judgment
ā¢ Experience balancing execution, agility, and culture at a fast growing business
ā¢ Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You've preferably been working full time on a software delivery team
ā¢ Strong customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be not only the voice of the customer, but at various times the voice of marketing, finance, engineering, support and ops. You must be able to channel many points of view
ā¢ Working knowledge of how the internet works at layers 3 through 7
ā¢ A solid understanding of RESTful API design & documentation
ā¢ Ability to validate early ideas through quantitative and qualitative methods (A/B and multivariate testing, user testing, etc). Experience in user experience (UX) design a plus
ā¢ Hands-on experience with command-line tools used for interacting with APIs, debugging and testing (e.g. curl, dig, etc.)
ā¢ Scripting/programming experience (Python, Go, etc.) and/or experience with web frameworks
ā¢ Domain expertise (e.g. as a practitioner or technology provider) in several of: HTTP content delivery, network performance, browser technologies and Internet security
ā¢ Pricing strategy and revenue forecasting experience
Benefits
ā¢ Medical/Rx Insurance
ā¢ Dental Insurance
ā¢ Vision Insurance
ā¢ Flexible Spending Accounts
ā¢ Commuter Spending Accounts
ā¢ Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
ā¢ On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
ā¢ Global Travel Medical Insurance
ā¢ Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
ā¢ Life & Accident Insurance
ā¢ 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
ā¢ Employee Stock Participation Plan
ā¢ Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
ā¢ Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Company Overview
ā¢ Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.cloudflare.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
ā¢ Cloudflare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 117 in 2025, 115 in 2024, 66 in 2023, 98 in 2022, 83 in 2021, 37 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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