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Director, Developer Partner Strategy

Cloudflare, Inc.
medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, sick time, long term disability, 401(k)
United States, California, San Francisco
101 Townsend Street (Show on map)
Nov 28, 2025
About Us

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. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Locations: Austin, TX, New York, SF

About Cloudflare

At Cloudflare, our mission is bold yet simple: to help build a better Internet. Our global network handles trillions of requests each month, protecting and accelerating applications without added hardware, software, or code changes. Our Developer Platform, including Workers, Workers AI, R2, KV, Durable Objects, and Pages, empowers developers to build and deploy applications globally, faster than ever before.

About the Team

The Developer GTM organization is a startup within Cloudflare, driving how we attract, inspire, and grow the next generation of builders. We are redefining what developer acquisition looks like in a world where AI and distributed agents are reshaping the stack. Our mission is to create new pathways for developers to discover Cloudflare, whether through ecosystem partnerships, high impact content, or creative field engagement.

We are builders, storytellers, and connectors united by one goal: to make Cloudflare the most exciting place for developers to build.

About the Role

Own the end-to-end partner strategy for Cloudflare's Developer Platform-spanning channel partners (SIs/MSPs/service providers) and technology alliances (integrations, co-builds, marketplaces). Your mandate: prioritize the right partners, ship joint solutions, and align GTM so developers can adopt and scale faster-with measurable, partner-sourced and influenced revenue. You'll set the strategy centrally and execute through the regional partner teams. (Cloudflare programs include technology partnerships aligned to developer services and other solution areas; partner network spans technology, global SIs, and service providers.

What You Will Do



  • Set the ecosystem strategy: Map, segment, and prioritize partners (channel + tech) that matter for developer workloads; publish a focused "top-X" plan per region.
  • Build technology alliances: Land integrations and reference architectures that improve customer outcomes on Workers/Workers AI, R2/D1/KV, Queues, Stream, and real-time primitives; define validation and co-support paths. (Cloudflare's tech partnerships drive integrations and joint GTM aligned to Developer Services.
  • Co-sell / co-market plays: Create repeatable partner plays (ICP, offer, proof, pricing posture), enable regional partner managers, and measure attach/impact.
  • Channel acceleration: With SIs/MSPs/service providers, package implementation offers and services SKUs; raise partner capability and profitability with clear enablement and "give/get."
  • Marketplace & program alignment: Coordinate listings and offers where relevant; align with central partner programs for readiness and incentives.
  • Operate through regions: Run a global partner operating rhythm (monthly reviews, quarterly plans) through regional leaders; unblock deals and integrations.
  • Own the scorecard: Partner-sourced and influenced pipeline/bookings, integration launches and adoption, partner attach on priority workloads, enablement completion, and partner NPS.


Who You Are



  • Builder, not just broker: 10+ years across channel + developer/alliances; you've shipped integrations and built co-sell machines with SIs/MSPs/tech partners.
  • Developer-fluent: Comfortable with workloads, APIs/SDKs, reference architectures, and how developers evaluate platforms; you translate technical value to commercial outcomes.
  • Operator with range: You write crisp plans, run a global cadence, and drive matrixed execution with Sales, Product, PMM, Finance, and Legal.
  • Metrics-driven: You size opportunities, forecast partner impact, and hold partners (and us) to results.
  • Global & pragmatic: Experience working across Americas/EMEA/APAC through regional partner teams; clear communicator, excellent collaborator.


Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.



  • For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $350,000 - $389,000 - $428,000


Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our 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 benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits



  • 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


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

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. 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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. 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.

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