Senior Product Manager, Payments

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 or San Francisco (Hybrid)

About the team

For 30 years, the web has run on a simple economic bargain: trading content for human attention. That attention has been monetized through advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce. This bargain funded the Internet as we know it.

But as agents become the dominant Internet users, the model is breaking. An agent does not look at ads or need to maintain a monthly subscription to all the tools it wants to access. It reads a page or consumes a data feed once, takes what it needs, and moves on. Across the web, AI crawlers already request content anywhere from a hundred to tens of thousands of times for every visitor they send back. We need new business models, fit for this new era.

Cloudflare has spent years detecting bots, allowing domain owners to take control of whether bots can access them. What's been missing is the other half: how agents interact with those sites once they're let in. That's what our team, the Agentic Internet team is focused on: making the web readable, discoverable, callable, and payable. These four primitives are all built on open standards, so no single company owns the rails. Cloudflare believes in the open Internet, and we're in a position to help build the future where it thrives. Come help us make it happen!

You can read more about some of our big bets here and here.

What you'll do

Shape the product strategy for new Internet-scale business models

Deliver product specifications, prototypes, product positioning, and high-impact launches

Partner with Engineering, Design, Research, and GTM to ship at high velocity

Work with Partnerships and BD to define the new business models for the open web

Represent the product externally with users, customers, AI labs, developers, and more

What we're looking for

5+ years as a technical PM; developer-facing experience and AI/ML preferred

A builder: you get things done, can move quickly, and prefer ‘show’ over ‘tell’

A strong communicator who is comfortable with ambiguity

Technically literate — you don't need to write Rust, but you should be able to push back on a tech lead on the merits of a particular direction

Payments, FinTech, or blockchain experience is a plus

Team oriented - You’d rather get it right than be right

How we work

At Cloudflare, performance is about outcomes (what you did) and behaviors (how you did it). We value curiosity, humility, empathy, an