Senior Product Manager; Load Balancing

Senior Product Manager;
Load Balancing – Cloudflare

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Load Balancing role at Cloudflare
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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.

Cloudflare is the largest and most performant Global Authoritative DNS provider in the world, with over 35% market share. DNS and Load Balancing are integral and strategic technologies in our solution set. Today, our Load Balancer is a critical segment of ensuring high availability and performance for both public traffic destined to public targets, public traffic destined to private targets and private traffic destined to private targets.

• Own the product vision for your area. Ensure that it aligns with the overall product and company vision.
• 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.
• Represent the customer. Be the champion and voice of customers. Build intimate, personal customer relationships. Bring the customer's voice into the creation process.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• BS/MS in a technology‑ or business‑related field
• Experience in building, configuring or using Load Balancing products, specifically with a focus with both public and private traffic load balancing.
• 5+ years of product management or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
• Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
• Must be able to define and manage complex process and/or product issues of a broad scope using independent judgment
• Experience balancing execution, agility, and culture at a fast growing business.
• 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.
• 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…