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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.

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.

Location: London

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner – GTM to join our London-based EMEA team. Acting as a strategic talent advisor and go-to-market specialist, you will drive the expansion of our sales and technical GTM teams across the broader EMEA region. You will leverage your deep market expertise, extensive network, and AI-driven strategies to identify and secure top-tier talent for Cloudflare across EMEA, while maintaining the agility to pivot your support as business needs evolve.

Core Responsibilities

• End-to-End Recruitment & Talent Strategy: Build and execute comprehensive talent strategies to help hiring leaders build high-performing teams, functioning similarly to how a salesperson puts together a go-to-market plan.
• Proactive Pipeline & Passive Candidate Outreach: Draw upon an extensive network of industry contacts to build proactive pipeline strategies for a variety of GTM and technical GTM roles across EMEA.
• Stakeholder Management & Advising: Build and maintain solid relationships with the GEO VP and cross-functional stakeholders, including Finance, HRBPs, and compensation teams.
• AI-Agent Integration & Process Optimisation: Partner with internal automated AI agents and generative tools to eliminate legacy manual tasks, optimise administrative outreach workflows at scale, and synthesise complex market data to inform regional talent strategies.
• Data Utilization & Analytics: Leverage foundational data layers and recruitment analytics to inform talent strategies, actively analysing metrics such as time-to-hire and source efficiency to drive optimal operational decisions.
• Employer Branding & Market Awareness: Lead and execute strategic employer branding initiatives tailored to the EMEA market to elevate Cloudflare’s profile as a top destination for GTM talent.

Desirable Skills

• GTM Recruiting Expertise: A proven track record of success as a Senior Recruiter with deep experience hiring for technical GTM roles, including Customer Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineers, Customer Experience and Solutions Architects, as well as core sales GTM organisations.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to operate two “plays” ahead, anticipating potential bottlenecks before they materialize, and resolving complex organisational issues.
• Negotiation & Closing Skills: Effective negotiation capabilities to secure top-tier candidates, driven by a deep understanding of Cloudflare’s unique value proposition.
• AI & Ecosystem Proficiency: Demonstrated capability to leverage automated workflows, AI-powered sourcing environments, and LLMs for complex boolean logic, market mapping, and productivity multiplication.
• Candidate Experience Focus: Strong organizational skills to eliminate operational friction, ensuring clear communication and proactive engagement throughout the interview lifecycle.
• Communication & Influencing: Exceptional written and verbal English skills, with the ability to communicate transparently, foster alignment across teams and stakeholders and leverage data and market insights to influence.
• Adaptability & Self-Direction: Comfort thriving in ever-changing environments, taking complete responsibility for outcomes while seamlessly navigating an evolving technological and organisational landscape.

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 released1.1.1.1 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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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 actualrace, color, 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.

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalised than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com

THE ROLE:

The role Is the in-country People team representative for Genius working with colleagues and managers across the entire employee lifecycle focused on operational excellence, compliance, engagement and wellbeing. You are one of several People Operations Managers who work together with the wider People team as we cultivate a ‘one Genius’ philosophy, layering over your subject matter expertise of the UK cultural and legislative landscape on all aspects of the People experience.

Main responsibilities:

Operational delivery excellence: As the custodian of the People team in the UK, the role is responsible for the end-to-end operational delivery of the employment experience; onboarding, payroll, benefits, management of the company’s cyclical processes (eg, pay review, performance management) working with colleagues and managers on all aspects of delivering these.

Payroll and Benefits:  Day to day responsibility for the successful onboarding, payroll processing and benefits enrolment, working with our payroll and benefits providers and finance colleagues on the delivery of this cyclical process.

People Processes and Controls: This role has two focuses in this regard; firstly, ensuring compliance with Internal policies, external regulations and controls are met. The second aspect Involves working with key stakeholders (eg, finance, systems teams) to develop new ways of working that may be more effective and appropriate to our size.

People Policies: Contributing to the development of Genius’s People policies and ensuring appropriate applications of these. Providing market Insight about what will help us maintain a competitive edge, to shape our policy design.

Engagement, performance and culture: Working In partnership with the wider People team as appropriate, support our managers in developing their management capability and effectively leading their teams to drive sustainable high performance. Coach and advise managers and staff to improve performance and deal with any issues. Help articulate and embed ‘how things get done around here’ and continue to evaluate how we evolve this as the business grows organically and inorganically. Work towards local initiatives to drive employee engagement, talent retention, and learning and development.

Employee relations: Handle individual and collective employee relations issues in a practical and legally compliant way. This could involve anything from helping resolve informal disciplinary and grievance matters, through to absence management, termination of employment, and ultimately managing aspects of major ER programs (e.g. organisational response to Covid-19, future of work)

Data, Systems & Documentation: Take ownership of UK People data integrity, ensure it’s clean and regularly updated, and coach local stakeholders on using It effectively (e.g. to help analyse trends in sick pay, absence rates, leavers, engagement etc). Lead effective use of Workday and other HR systems within user groups. Own local People documents developing a Genius tone in conjunction with internal comms, across our population regularly reviewing and updating as appropriate in line with business needs. Document and process joiners, leavers and job changes

Projects & Programmes: Act as the People team lead on UK orientated programmes such as payroll governance programmes, benefits renewals, M&A Integrations of UK based acquisitions, global engagement campaigns (eg, D&I, mental health awareness)

Key stakeholders:

• Genius colleagues
• Managers and leaders (based in both UK and In other regions where line management Is cross border)
• People Operations colleagues
• People Partnering team
• Regional finance team
• Employment counsel, Reward, Talent Acquisition, Training and Development
• People Policy & Process and People Systems and Data leads

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

We are looking for a proactive HR operator with the following experiences:

• Ownership of People Operations processes in a global organisation
• Proven experience in a fast paced, maturing organisation
• Working with managers to troubleshoot and develop pragmatic solutions to People related matters
• End to end experience of the People operations lifecycle (eg, onboarding, managing payroll, benefits, job changes)
• Experience working as part of a global HR team would be preferred
• Knowledge of working with HRIS systems (Workday preferred)
• Excellent relationship building – a team player with credibility and a sense of humour. Your ability to effectively work with and gain the trust of stakeholders
• Awareness of country specific nuances, working with people teams on the ground and as necessary, legal counsel to understand legislative and cultural backdrops In order to develop pragmatic approaches and solutions
• Experience working with diverse workforces within one organization and an appreciation of differing motivators that may exist within cohorts

IT WILL BE A BONUS IF YOU:

• Have a passion for operational excellence and engagement creating great employee and manager experiences through utilisation of technology
• Are approachable and credible with colleagues at all levels
• Have an eye for detail and organisation
• Have strong communication skills: clear, accurate and engaging, both verbally and in writing. Versatile in your approach, able to deal with a range of smart stakeholders with their own needs
• Exemplifie the values set out in our Genius Sports ‘GamePlan’: always be on the ball (think big, and get stuck in); play fair, play to win (do the right thing, and go fast/aim high); and believe in better together (express yourself, and win as a team)
• Have a collaborative approach - thrives in working with wider People team members to deliver effective People Interventions

We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location.

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports.

One team, being brave, driving change

We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference. Learn more about our values and culture at Culture | Genius

Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.