Edge Data Center Strategy Lead

Cloudflare; New York (NY); Vor Ort; USD 158.000 - 257.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

Medical Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid time off

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Zusammenfassung

Cloudflare is seeking a Data Center Strategy team member to optimize regional data center footprints, improve unit costs, and grow the PoP footprint. You’ll manage vendor relationships, structure contracts, and drive strategic initiatives across multiple markets to support rapid infrastructure growth.

You will collaborate with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy and security teams, handling complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in planning and managing data center footprints within a fast moving enterprise technology organization or cloud services, software or colocation company.
• Ability to multi-task and manage complex projects across multiple teams and geographies within set deadlines.
• Ability to navigate, solve problems and answer questions with minimal supervision.
• Relationship management experience and excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiation.
• Experience with rack, site power and white space planning (data center sales engineering) a plus.
• Experience with or understanding of network concepts a plus.
• Experience in budget planning, financial analysis, or other analytical role a plus.
• Multilingual and/or experience living/working/conducting business in another country a plus.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

Aufgaben

• Define regional vendor strategy for data centers.
• Own deals end to end involving new and existing data center vendors and sites to support Cloudflare’s infrastructure growth including planning, RFP, commercial negotiation and execution.
• Work cross-functionally with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy and security teams to understand requirements and project timelines.
• Establish and conduct scheduled QBR and other vendor management activities with top category partners.
• Represent Cloudflare credibly to external partner C-level senior management and at public conferences/events.
• Expert point of contact for internal business customers & external colocation partner vendors as needed.
• Contribute information to annual data center budget for effective tracking and benchmarking of infrastructure costs.
• Review colocation spend & invoices for management approval.
• Other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Data center planning

Project management

Vendor negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget planning

Multilingual

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Jobbeschreibung

Cloudflare is seeking a Data Center Strategy team member to optimize regional data center footprints, improve unit costs, and grow the PoP footprint. You’ll manage vendor relationships, structure contracts, and drive strategic initiatives across multiple markets to support rapid infrastructure growth.

You will collaborate with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy and security teams, handling complex projects with multiple stakeholders.