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Posted 5 days agoPrincipal People Team Business Partner - M&A / Strategy
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Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Build the infrastructure, checklists, and automated workflows that don't exist yet to scale our M&A engine.
- Identify recurring failure modes across deals and implement upstream fixes to continuously optimize our playbooks.
- Design and execute organizational mapping and day-1 onboarding schedules to ensure acquired technical teams maintain momentum and feel integrated from day one. Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience •
Requirements
- As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
- We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.
- Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.
- If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Atlanta, US Austin, US Denver, US New York, US San Francisco, US Seattle, US About the Role
- experience for newly acquired teams. Responsibilities
- experience to incoming talent, serving as their primary advocate, guide, and escalation point as they navigate our culture and systems.
- experience across People Operations, HRBP roles, or Program Management, with at least 3+ years directly owning People/HR workstreams for M&A transactions in high-growth tech environments.
- Startup Agility: Proven track record of building 0-to-1 processes. You excel in fast-moving, unstructured environments where templates are built on the fly.
- Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
- Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
Experience
- Experience: 6–10+ years of
Benefits
- Lead rapid-fire HR due diligence to assess target company culture, compensation structures, and compliance risks.
- Partner with finance and legal to analyze equity structures, ensuring seamless alignment on equity rollover mechanics and cash/stock retention incentives.
- Technical & Core HR Fluency: Solid foundational understanding of employment legal basics, high-growth compensation structures, and visa/immigration complexities (critical for international or highly technical talent).
- Ability to earn the trust of elite technical founders and seamlessly align cross-functional internal executives. Compensation
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For San Francisco Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $257,000.
- For New York City and Washington based hires: Estimated annual salary of $178,000 - $245,000.
- For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $223,000
- This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan.
- The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan. Equity
- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits
- 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
- Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance
- 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
- All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
Contact
- Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Additional details
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet.
- Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
- Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
- Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request.
- Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with.
- Position Overview: We are seeking a high-velocity, strategic People M&A Leader to own the human side of our mergers and acquisitions end-to-end.
- In this role, you will be the single designated point person (DRI) and strategic counterpart to our Corporate Development team.
- You will own the People lifecycle for all deals—from early-stage confirmatory due diligence through post-close integration.
- Acting as the ultimate "Hub to the Spokes," you will translate deal rationale into practical execution strategies, coordinating fluidly across Recruiting, Total Rewards, People Operations, Workplace Immigration, and Employment Legal.