Strategic Partnerships Lead / Director

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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: Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; New York City About the role The web is undergoing a structural transition from a search-first economy to an AI-mediated, agentic ecosystem. Cloudflare sits in front of more than 20% of the world's web traffic, providing an unmatched, front-row view of how Large Language Models (LLMs), AI bots, and autonomous agents interact with digital content. We are seeking a Strategic Partnerships Lead / Director to join Cloudflare’s Strategic Partnerships team. In this high-impact, zero-to-one role, you will define and execute our strategy to transform Cloudflare’s rich network and CDN data into actionable business, marketing, and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) intelligence. What you'll do You will act as the crucial bridge between enterprise customers, Product & Engineering, and Go-To-Market (GTM) tea…