Global Commodity Sourcing Manager

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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!

About The Department

We are looking for a Global Commodity Supply Manager to support our commercial hardware engagement with strategic partners, focused on server and network equipment. You will be part of a team focused on sourcing key hardware technologies and executing on the commercial strategy for Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers. Cloudflare takes a long term and technical approach to hardware sourcing, comparing ourselves to the best in class cloud companies. You will lead the team on ambitious goals for our hardware sourcing around technology cost, quality, and supply.

What you'll do

• Develop long term Total Cost of Ownership targets and lead complex, multi-party negotiations to achieve key Technology, Quality, Cost and Supply targets.
• Partner with key internal stakeholders across infrastructure and engineering teams to support the growth of Cloudflare’s hardware fleet.
• Introduce cross-functional processes (e.g, RFX, QBR) to ensure improved evaluation of new and existing hardware vendors.
• Drive the introduction and adoption of new compute, storage, and network technologies alongside various engineering and commercial teams
• Own key strategic silicon sourcing and procurement efforts across compute, storage and network hardware in support of Cloudflare’s rapid global infrastructure expansion. These include CPU, FPGA, Storage, Switch and Interconnect, amongst other strategic silicon commodities.
• Manage relationships with server, network and sub-component companies (CPU, storage, networking technologies).
• Partner with Hardware engineering on new technology and existing products.
• Understand the commercial and technical benefits of hardware technologies and convey strategic value of Cloudflare in order to develop long-lasting partnerships with key industry players.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Intellectual curiosity, particularly around technology
• Master’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain or engineering field or an equivalent amount of professional experience
• Engineering or analytical background preferred
• Prior experience managing programs across multiple, large cross- functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Minimum 10 years experience working with silicon vendors, networking (OEM’s) and server technology manufacturers (ODMs)
• Comfortable managing teams/projects with tight deadlines in an ambiguous environment
• Highly organized and able to juggle many tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items

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

• Flexible Spending Accounts
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Life & Accident Insurance

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

Location - while it's a requirement that candidates be local to the Austin area, we are extremely flexible regarding remote work in general.

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 : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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 : We created 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.

Path Forward Partnership : Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

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.

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