Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager

Available Locations: Austin Texas, New York, San Francisco

About the Team

The Strategy organization operates as a high-velocity engine at the intersection of business, technology, and go-to-market execution, driving enterprise growth, global expansion, market innovation, and strategic execution. Our multi-disciplinary team spans seven core strategic pillars: Network & Infrastructure Strategy, Industry Solutions, Strategic Partnerships, International Expansion, Executive Customer Engagements, Corporate Development & M&A, and the new business model of the Internet. As primary connective tissue across the enterprise, we collaborate closely with Sales, Product & Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Policy to translate corporate vision into measurable, real-world execution.

Role Summary

As a Senior Strategic Partner Manager, you will work directly with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to identify, build, and launch key partnerships that accelerate our product roadmap and drive platform adoption.

The initiatives you own will span strategic co-build integrations, OEM relationships, and complex GTM alliance build-outs. This is a hands-on execution role for a versatile problem-solver—you will own partnerships end-to-end, moving from initial strategic alignment through technical scoping, contract negotiation, integration, and go-to-market launch.

You will flex across different technology domains as company priorities shift, diving into technical details, validating integration use cases, and bringing cross-functional teams (Legal, Security, GTM, Finance) together to deliver real outcomes.

Role Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and structure strategic partnerships (technology integrations, ecosystem plays, and go-to-market alliances) across Cloudflare's product areas, prioritizing based on where the business needs it most.
• Partner directly with Product and Engineering leaders to assess technical fit, integration approach, and roadmap alignment for prospective partnerships.
• Build the business case for each partnership: sizing the opportunity, validating the underlying use case, and making a clear, evidence-based recommendation on whether to pursue it.
• Lead negotiation and execution end-to-end, from initial scoping through signed agreement and launch.
• Act as the connective tissue between partner organizations and internal stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, Sales) to ensure both organizations deliver outcomes.
• Move fluidly across product areas and partner types as priorities shift, ramping up on new technical domains quickly and independently.
• Demonstrate deep technical fluency. You must be able to independently evaluate technical documentation and engage credibly with engineers, rather than relying on others to translate how a partner’s technology works.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

• 8+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, product management, strategy or consulting; ideally within a technology or cybersecurity organization.
• Prior exposure to cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, networking, developer platforms, or AI markets.
• Technical fluency: able to understand product architecture and engineering trade-offs well enough to independently evaluate partnership and integration opportunities, not just relay them.
• Proven ability to navigate unstructured, open-ended problems with an attention to detail to close and launch complex deals.
• A track record of aligning senior stakeholders across product, engineering, legal, GTM and partner organizations around competing priorities, keeping teams accountable, and pushing projects across the finish line.
• Experience structuring, negotiating, and closing non-standard commercial and technical agreements.
• Ability to pick up new technical domains quickly and shift focus as business priorities evolve.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence cross-functionally without formal authority.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

San Francisco Estimated Base salary $161,000 - $221,000.

New York Estimated Base salary $153,000 - $210,000.

Austin Estimated Base salary $125,000 - $172,000.