Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare Realtime

Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare Realtime

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, NYC, or SF

About The Role

Cloudflare Realtime is a new and exciting suite of products designed to empower developers to build truly interactive applications with real-time audio, video, and AI experiences. This suite brings together our highly performant SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit), STUN, and TURN services, alongside the innovative RealtimeKit – a collection of mobile and web SDKs and server-side services (recording, coordination, transcription). We are looking for a passionate and technically adept Product Manager to drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Cloudflare Realtime. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of real-time communication on our global network, making complex media capabilities accessible to developers of all skill levels.

What You'll Do

• Drive the strategy and roadmap for Cloudflare Realtime, including RealtimeKit, SFU, and TURN services.
• Lead new product features from ideation through launch, and continuing through ongoing maintenance and support.
• Guide internal and external teams on developing and integrating with Realtime services and SDKs.
• Develop and nurture key external relationships with partners (e.g., Hugging Face) and open-source maintainers, ensuring their needs are heard and acted upon.
• Partner closely with Product Marketing, Marketing, Community & Developer Advocacy, Sales, and Customer Support to drive adoption and gather feedback from customers and prospects.
• Ruthlessly prioritize across a complex environment of diverse customers, stakeholders, and objectives, with a strong focus on delivering developer value.
• Represent the company externally as needed, including meetings with customers, speaking at external events, and participating in relevant industry groups.
• Deeply understand WebRTC and real-time communication challenges, translating complex technical concepts into intuitive developer experiences.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Proven track record of shipping developer-facing products from ideation to launch, with 3+ years of professional experience working on technology products.
• Strong knowledge of real-time communication technologies, including WebRTC, WebSockets, SFUs, and TURN servers.
• Deep understanding of the developer journey, with a passion for building tools and SDKs that abstract complexity and enable rapid application development.
• Developer focus – you enjoy working directly with developers, understanding their pain points, and helping them get their initial implementations off the ground.
• Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications, and can understand the impact of engineering decisions on the product.
• A desire to sweat the details and ship great developer experiences, focusing on ease of use, clear documentation, and robust APIs.
• A love for talking to developers at organizations both large and small on a daily basis to build and ship products that solve real problems.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, thriving in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, able to work with diverse groups, gain alignment, and drive product forward.

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $202,000 - $246,000
• For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $192,000 - $234,000
• For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $170,000 - $208,000

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

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

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 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 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!

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.

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, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression