Senior Product Manager, DDoS

Available Locations: Hybrid - Lisbon or London
About Product Management at Cloudflare
As a Product Manager at Cloudflare, you are responsible for building products that improve the way that the Internet works. Product Managers at Cloudflare sit at the intersection of software development, design, and business strategy. We shape high-level product goals but also get our hands dirty. On an average day, you might pitch a concept to senior leadership, create a launch plan with marketing, work with designers to conduct user research, prototype a new feature, iterate on a spec, analyze usage data, or pair with an engineer on implementation. We have ultimate responsibility for understanding our client needs, influencing business strategy, feature specification, and working with engineering to develop our software.
About the Role
As a Product Manager at Cloudflare, you will be responsible for building products that improve the way that the Internet works. Product Managers at Cloudflare shape high-level product goals but also get our hands dirty. On an average day, you might pitch a concept to senior leadership, collaborate with marketing, work with designers to conduct user research, prototype a new feature, iterate on a spec, analyze usage data, and pair with an engineer on implementation.
We are seeking a strategic and technical Senior Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and evolution of our DDoS Protection portfolio. Your mission is to seamlessly block volumetric attacks and ensure the availability and resilience of the world's most critical infrastructure against increasingly sophisticated and massive-scale disruptions. In this role, you will own the end-to-end roadmap for our mitigation engines, balancing automated, high-performance defense with the granular control required by global enterprises.
You will be responsible for translating the rapidly shifting threat landscape (from massive terabit-scale floods to complex Layer 7 resource exhaustion) into intuitive, "set-and-forget" protection features. Beyond technical execution, you will serve as a bridge between engineering excellence and market success, working closely with Sales, Customer Success and our Customers to drive adoption and defend our position as a market leader. Your success will be measured by the seamless efficacy of our mitigation platform.
You will:

• Own your space. You will own the priorities and scope for a high performing engineering team focusing on detecting large scale global volumetric attacks.
• Connect the pieces. Product managers are a nerve center at Cloudflare, responsible for connecting engineering, program management, marketing, revenue, and partners to make sure that our ships go out on time and with the maximum impact.
• Excel across teams. Enterprise capabilities cut across all of our product verticals, so you should be comfortable working with product managers across the company to prioritize systemic improvements that our enterprise customers need.
• Be customer obsessed. You will be responsible for directly engaging with customers and understanding how they use our products. You'll bring these insights back to the team to build a great roadmap.
• Join pre-sales and post-sales calls with customers, sales, support, etc., to assist with, and help understand all phases of the customer lifecycle
• Be data driven. You should be comfortable working with data, and analyzing data to quantify the impact of problems and opportunities in your space.

Key qualifications and skills

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager delivering solutions in the cloud at scale for a technical audience
• Customer focus. At Cloudflare, we serve the needs of customers large and small, and our product managers need to be comfortable understanding how to design for enterprises without compromising the experience for individuals and small businesses.
• Stakeholder management. You should bring hands-on experience in managing complex escalations and leading high-profile engagements (such as Quarterly Business Reviews). This includes delivering product updates to executive stakeholders (both internal and external), maintaining proactive communication during incidents, setting clear and realistic expectations, and driving cross-functional initiatives.
• Technical Acumen. You must have the ability to grasp complex technical concepts and be able to effectively translate these complex ideas for customers through various channels, including calls, blog posts, and reports. You must be comfortable engaging in deep technical discussions with engineering teams.
• Preferred: candidate with professional experience in DDoS mitigation, network security, and/or general networking concepts.