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Senior Principal Data Strategy & Governance Manager

Cloudflare
GovernanceOn-siteFull-timeHybrid$230,000 - $317,000

Cloudflare is hiring for the job of Senior Principal Data Strategy & Governance Manager, Hybrid (On-site). This is a Governance job in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $230,000 - $317,000. Review the full details below and apply directly with Cloudflare.

Organization: CloudflareLocation: HybridWorkplace: On-siteFocus: GovernanceSalary: $230,000 - $317,000Posted: Oct 7, 2026
Cloudflare is hiring for this Governance job in Hybrid, one of the metros GRC Careers tracks for governance, risk, and compliance hiring.

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, NYC, or Austin

About the role

Cloudflare is looking for a principal individual contributor to drive data strategy and execution for the Revenue Operations team! This is a great role for an experienced Sales Operations professional who is looking for a hands-on role that can shape and build the infrastructure that will drive operational scale and solve real problems that help drive impact.

You are right for this role if you excel at building data infrastructure at scale, driving data governance across business, and understand the nuances and challenges of the intersection between Go-To-Market business and data needs.

As part of the Go-To-Market Intelligence team, you will partner with the Sales Leaders and their Revenue Operations Business Partners, IT, Data, Intelligence, and Analytics and other functions within the company to up level data quality in our systems, scale processes, and support Cloudflare’s strategic priorities.

Job Responsibilities:

Build a roadmap to improve Cloudflare’s abilities to be more agile and have a trustworthy, fresh, expeditious customer and firmographic data strategy and governance framework.
Build and execute AI implementation to reduce current day inefficiencies caused by unclear or absent data
Establish a strong and productive engagement with Cloudflare’s Data, Intelligence, and Analytics and IT teams to implement and optimize hardened data management tools and technologies ensuring alignment with business needs and scalability
Collaborate cross-functionally within Revenue Operations to build a change review board or other advanced governance system to reduce friction between Field needs and data governance
Create and maintain playbooks and documentation for completing repeatable tasks to ensure compliance with relative policies
Identify and partner with owners of data sources in the CRM system to ensure accountability
Work with stakeholders to address data-related issues, resolve conflicts, and ensure effective communication and change management.

Required Skills/Experience:

Minimum 12 years of experience in Sales Operations or a CRM architecture function
Experience leveraging AI tools to build automation, simplify decision making, and reduce complexities
Strong proficiencies in building account hierarchies for fast-growing B2B/B2C companies
Extensive experience in processes, techniques and tactics to scale global data quality, including and not limited to deduplication, firmographic, as well as technographic data enrichment
Experience understanding and evaluating integrations between CRM and external data systems
Experience using various firmographic data sources and how to leverage each source
Extensive experience working with Salesforce tooling ecosystem and the related teams
Established history of driving multiple complex projects at the same time to on-time completion in a fast-moving environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong quantitative skills and high data fluency
Ability to draw and map data models and strong data engineering skills

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

span For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $317,000
For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000

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 and Welfare Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility and 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 and 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?

span 400; 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.

a Project Galileo span 400;: 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.

strong a Athenian Project span 400;: 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.

a strong 1.1.1.1 span 400;: We released a span 400; 1.1.1.1 span 400; 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 a privacy commitment span 400; and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

span 400; Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

span 400; 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.

span 400; 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.

span 400; 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 span 400; 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. span 400; We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

span 400; 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 span 400; @cloudflare.com span 400; or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Location and market context

This job is based in Hybrid on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Cloudflare's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.

About governance jobs

Governance jobs design the structures, policies, and oversight that keep complex programs accountable, coordinating across legal, risk, compliance, and technology. Jobs like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as governance frameworks, policy standards, and oversight and reporting practices.

How to position yourself for this governance job

Strong candidates emphasize policy and standard-setting, committee and stakeholder coordination, oversight reporting, and translating strategy into durable operating structures. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Cloudflare would apply governance frameworks, policy standards, and oversight and reporting practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.

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