Product Strategy - Product Manager Intern
About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
About the department
Product Strategy is where new, bold, products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
At any given moment Product Strategy is engaged in a half dozen projects, each driven by a small technical team of just a handful of developers. These teams are empowered to drive the product and technical vision to build things which are, in the words of our CTO, ‘audacious’. Unlike an R&D division, Product Strategy doesn’t build theoretical or abstract tools, we brought six products to market in the first quarter of this year alone.
Small teams within Product Strategy build and release new products. Projects we’ve built and released include:
- Workers: A next-generation compute platform, deployed to 155+ data centers around the world.
- Argo Tunnel: a new way to deploy web services which is the rare combination of faster and more secure.
- Access: the service which will kill your VPN, and the fastest growing Cloudflare add-on product of all time.
- Stream: a video platform which uses our network’s breadth to deliver video faster and cheaper than any other.
- 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 is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released.
What we’re building now is even better and even more ambitious.
What you'll do
As a Product Manager Intern, you will be working in a fast-paced environment where you will be expected to take ownership of one or multiple features or products. You will have a growth mindset where you will learn how to be an effective Product Manager by shipping features or products and learning from other product managers around you. By the end of your internship, you will have taken part in helping make the internet a better place.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- The ability to work in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
- Exceptional people skills and empathy
- Excellent command of the English language
- A high degree of attention to detail
- A deep understanding of technical subjects and the internet
- A kind and generous attitude towards customers and co-workers alike
- A desire to receive feedback and grow
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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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.
Project Athenian: We created 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.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
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 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 privacy policy 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!
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