Cloudflare
Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning
Cloudflare, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning
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.
Available Locations
Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
About The Department The Finance & BizOps team provides the financial insights and strategic guidance to shape Cloudflare’s growth, profitability, and investment strategy. We’re partners who embed across the business—connecting strategy to execution, driving planning and analysis, and collaborating with cross‑functional leaders to develop and deliver key priorities. This team of passionate problem‑solvers thrives in a fast‑paced environment, designing and implementing high‑quality, scalable solutions.
About The Role We are looking for a highly strategic, analytical, and forward‑looking leader to join our team as the Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning. This leader will drive modeling advancements while translating complex outputs into clear, actionable narratives for the executive team.
You will be responsible for designing, owning, and governing the core logic, methodology, and forecast quality of our revenue model, and using this expertise to drive more insightful and impactful modeling techniques across the organization. This is a pivotal leadership role that will also directly own how we enhance our planning and forecasting capabilities and drive scalability with Anaplan.
What You’ll Do
Own the Corporate Revenue Engine: Own and elevate the end‑to‑end design, execution, and continuous improvement of our revenue forecast. Lead our monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue planning processes, including variance analysis, scenario planning, and executive‑level reporting for all topline metrics.
Lead Strategic & Scenario Modeling: Build and maintain robust, multi‑scenario models that connect operational KPIs to the financial forecast, enabling real‑time scenario planning, delivering high‑value insights, and supporting long‑range planning, investment prioritization, and executive "what‑if" analysis.
Lead the System & Modeling Roadmap: Directly manage the Anaplan COE and own the long‑term vision for our finance system. Responsible for the COE’s dual mandate: executing the build of a scalable, automated revenue model while also broadly enabling the entire finance organization.
Drive AI & Transformation: Research, prototype, and champion the adoption and implementation of advanced analytics and AI tools.
Drive Executive‑Level Storytelling: Translate complex and often incomplete financial data into a clear, actionable topline narrative. Responsible for creating and presenting insights for the executive leadership team, board, and earnings preparation.
Be a Talent Magnet & Leader: Recruit, lead, and mentor a high‑performing team, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience
15+ years of progressive experience in a highly analytical, strategic capacity (e.g., Investment Banking, Private Equity, Top‑Tier Consulting) or a similar corporate "builder" role, with deep experience in a high‑growth, public company SaaS environment.
Financial Modeling Expertise: True master modeler with extensive, from‑scratch experience architecting complex, integrated, three‑statement financial models for high‑growth public companies.
Systems‑Thinker & Architect: Think in terms of data pipelines, logic layers, and product roadmaps, not just spreadsheets. Deep experience with financial planning applications (Anaplan strongly preferred) and a strong grasp of data structures to effectively design and implement new, scalable systems.
Proven Leader‑of‑Leaders: Demonstrated success in building and leading high‑performance, highly‑analytical teams.
World‑Class Executive Presence: Ability to distill complex modeling architecture and simulation outputs into simple, consumable, and actionable takeaways for a C‑suite and Board‑level audience.
Intellectually Curious & Rigorous: Problem‑solving orientation and rigorous, first‑principles logic applied to multi‑faced problems.
BA/BS in a quantitative field.
Compensation For the Bay area, the expected salary range is $320,000 - $391,000 For the New York city area, the expected salary range is $303,000 - $371,000
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’s 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!
Export Control 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.
EEO Statement 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, colour, 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 hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
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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.
Available Locations
Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
About The Department The Finance & BizOps team provides the financial insights and strategic guidance to shape Cloudflare’s growth, profitability, and investment strategy. We’re partners who embed across the business—connecting strategy to execution, driving planning and analysis, and collaborating with cross‑functional leaders to develop and deliver key priorities. This team of passionate problem‑solvers thrives in a fast‑paced environment, designing and implementing high‑quality, scalable solutions.
About The Role We are looking for a highly strategic, analytical, and forward‑looking leader to join our team as the Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning. This leader will drive modeling advancements while translating complex outputs into clear, actionable narratives for the executive team.
You will be responsible for designing, owning, and governing the core logic, methodology, and forecast quality of our revenue model, and using this expertise to drive more insightful and impactful modeling techniques across the organization. This is a pivotal leadership role that will also directly own how we enhance our planning and forecasting capabilities and drive scalability with Anaplan.
What You’ll Do
Own the Corporate Revenue Engine: Own and elevate the end‑to‑end design, execution, and continuous improvement of our revenue forecast. Lead our monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue planning processes, including variance analysis, scenario planning, and executive‑level reporting for all topline metrics.
Lead Strategic & Scenario Modeling: Build and maintain robust, multi‑scenario models that connect operational KPIs to the financial forecast, enabling real‑time scenario planning, delivering high‑value insights, and supporting long‑range planning, investment prioritization, and executive "what‑if" analysis.
Lead the System & Modeling Roadmap: Directly manage the Anaplan COE and own the long‑term vision for our finance system. Responsible for the COE’s dual mandate: executing the build of a scalable, automated revenue model while also broadly enabling the entire finance organization.
Drive AI & Transformation: Research, prototype, and champion the adoption and implementation of advanced analytics and AI tools.
Drive Executive‑Level Storytelling: Translate complex and often incomplete financial data into a clear, actionable topline narrative. Responsible for creating and presenting insights for the executive leadership team, board, and earnings preparation.
Be a Talent Magnet & Leader: Recruit, lead, and mentor a high‑performing team, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience
15+ years of progressive experience in a highly analytical, strategic capacity (e.g., Investment Banking, Private Equity, Top‑Tier Consulting) or a similar corporate "builder" role, with deep experience in a high‑growth, public company SaaS environment.
Financial Modeling Expertise: True master modeler with extensive, from‑scratch experience architecting complex, integrated, three‑statement financial models for high‑growth public companies.
Systems‑Thinker & Architect: Think in terms of data pipelines, logic layers, and product roadmaps, not just spreadsheets. Deep experience with financial planning applications (Anaplan strongly preferred) and a strong grasp of data structures to effectively design and implement new, scalable systems.
Proven Leader‑of‑Leaders: Demonstrated success in building and leading high‑performance, highly‑analytical teams.
World‑Class Executive Presence: Ability to distill complex modeling architecture and simulation outputs into simple, consumable, and actionable takeaways for a C‑suite and Board‑level audience.
Intellectually Curious & Rigorous: Problem‑solving orientation and rigorous, first‑principles logic applied to multi‑faced problems.
BA/BS in a quantitative field.
Compensation For the Bay area, the expected salary range is $320,000 - $391,000 For the New York city area, the expected salary range is $303,000 - $371,000
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’s 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!
Export Control 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.
EEO Statement 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, colour, 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 hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Cloudflare by 2x
#J-18808-Ljbffr