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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.
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. 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:
San Francisco, CA
About the team
The Finance team is a critical pillar of
Cloudflare’s success, translating
strategy into financial outcomes, and
serving as a trusted voice to the public
markets, the Board, and our
shareholders. The Investor Relations
team is a small, high-impact group that
tells Cloudflare’s financial story to
the public markets — translating one
of the most differentiated technology
platforms in the world into a clear,
credible, and compelling investment
narrative.
About the role
Cloudflare is looking for an Associate,
Investor Relations & Strategic
Finance to join our lean IR team and
help power how we engage with Wall
Street. You will be a core contributor
to the quarterly earnings cycle, our
consensus and financial modeling work,
investor events including our annual
Investor Day, and strategic finance
projects for senior leadership.
This is a hands-on, high-visibility
role. The work you produce will go
directly to the CFO, CEO, Board, and
public markets, so we hold ourselves to
an exceptionally high bar on accuracy.
You will work closely with Finance,
Accounting, Legal, Communications,
FP&A, and the executive team, and
you will get broad exposure to the
business and to the public markets. We
are AI-native in how we work, and we
expect you to treat modern tooling as a
force multiplier on insight,
productivity, and rigor.
What you’ll do
Quarterly earnings and consensus
Support the end-to-end quarterly
earnings process, helping draft and
assemble the press release, supplemental
financial information, prepared remarks,
Q&A prep, and investor deck.
Build and maintain our consensus model:
collect and analyze sell-side estimates
and models, and benchmark them against
internal forecasts.
Support the guidance process, including
share count forecasting, sensitivity
analyses, and supporting materials for
leadership.
Drive tie-out and validation work so
that every figure, claim, and disclosure
across the press release, supplemental,
scripts, Q&A, deck, 10-Q, and 10-K
is accurate and consistent.
Help prepare for earnings Q&A:
anticipated questions, peer transcript
research, key stats and proof points,
and live-call backup material.
Coordinate the post-earnings analyst
callback program, including scheduling,
notes, and feedback summaries.
Investor engagement
Support day-to-day engagement with
sell-side analysts and institutional
investors, including responding to
inbound requests and maintaining our
investor database.
Help plan and run investor events,
including sell-side conferences,
one-on-ones, on-site investor visits,
and non-deal roadshows.
Prepare briefing materials for the CEO,
CFO, and other executives ahead of
investor meetings, including investor
profiles, talking points, and Q&A
prep.
Maintain core IR collateral, including
the investor presentation, fact sheets,
and IR website content.
Analyze shareholder ownership and
support investor targeting.
Investor Day and strategic finance
projects
Support the planning and execution of
our annual Investor Day, including the
invite tracker and registration, content
drafting, validation, and day-of
logistics.
Contribute to strategic finance projects
such as peer benchmarking, competitive
analyses, long-range financial modeling,
and ad-hoc analyses for senior
leadership.
Analytics and tooling
Monitor and synthesize analyst coverage,
peer results, investor sentiment, and
industry trends into clear, actionable
summaries for leadership.
Build and maintain the models,
dashboards, trackers, and validation
tools that let a small team operate at
scale.
Use AI-native tooling and automation to
improve speed, accuracy, and insight
across the IR function.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge
and experience
3–5 years of experience in investment
banking, equity research, investor
relations, FP&A, corporate finance,
or equity investing; exposure to public
technology companies is a plus.
Strong financial modeling skills,
including building and maintaining
operating models, consensus models, and
share count and dilution forecasts.
Solid understanding of financial
statements, public-company reporting,
and valuation; familiarity with SaaS or
consumption-based revenue models is a
plus.
Strong written communication skills,
with the ability to draft clear, concise
materials for senior executives and to
turn complex financial or technical
concepts into simple narratives.
Exceptional attention to detail, and
pride in getting every number right.
An ownership mindset: you are organized,
take initiative, and can manage multiple
deadlines in a fast-paced environment,
especially during earnings season.
High-trust collaboration, with the
ability to work effectively with teams
across Finance, Accounting, Legal, and
Communications.
AI-native curiosity and skill: fluency
with modern AI tooling and a track
record of using it to amplify your
impact.
Sound judgment with confidential
information, including awareness of
materiality, fair disclosure, and Reg FD
(or a strong willingness to learn).
Genuine interest in cybersecurity, cloud
infrastructure, developer platforms, or
AI, and in the public markets.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending
on work location.
For Bay Area based hires: Estimated
annual salary of $117,000 - $161,000
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!
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.
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
[email protected] or via mail at 101
Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
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