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Available Location: Bangalore
Public Policy at Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the most dynamic and innovative companies providing services on the Internet. Regulation of the Internet is exploding -- across a number of subject areas and jurisdictions -- at a rate previously unseen in the history of the Internet. We’re looking for a new team member who can help foster and promote our corporate philosophy and approach, in which the security and privacy of our customers are paramount.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for an exceptionally talented and energetic person to join our Public Policy
Team, based in Bengaluru at our Global Capability Centre. With a focus on India we’re looking for someone who can foster our unique corporate philosophy, develop public policy solutions to challenging technology issues and be comfortable giving front line support on issues requiring engagement.
You will work on some of the most complicated and rapidly evolving policy issues, such as cybersecurity, privacy, intermediary liability, law enforcement access to data, content moderation, and copyright abuse. You will also work with leadership on the setting up of the Global Capability Centre. The perfect candidate is also someone with a strong background in government affairs in India (both State and Central), particularly in the tech space. You’ll help us engage with external stakeholders to ensure alignment with the strategic business objectives of Cloudflare’s Global Capability Centre.
This person has a deep understanding of technology as well as regulatory environments. The ideal candidate can seamlessly go from a technical conversation with engineers to a high-level discussion with policymakers and government officials regarding where Cloudflare fits in the Internet stack. This person should be experienced in engaging and representing the company in key industry forums, engaging with relevant regulatory bodies and industry associations.
Because of the scope, complexity, and diversity of the company’s work, our Public Policy team members must be flexible, talented and able to work collaboratively across multi-functional teams to find and present policy solutions, to carry the Cloudflare narrative, and promote the public policy brand externally.
This role is ideal for an experienced and energetic team player who is proactive, a strategic thinker, a skilled communicator and above all else, someone who has a thirst for knowledge and continued growth, all while working as part of a great team.
This role has non-standard working hours.
The Senior GCC Government Relations Manager will report to the APJC Head of Public Policy.
Responsibilities
This role will lead Cloudflare’s government advocacy and outreach in the Global Capability Centre in India and support the public policy team when needed. Specific areas of responsibility include:
- Monitor policy conversations, legislative developments and government requests, and evaluate how they could impact the GCC.
- Develop and implement the GCC’s government engagement strategy.
- Represent the company in industry forums, engage with relevant stakeholders including government officials, regulatory bodies and industry associations.
- Engage with trade associations, industry partners, non-profit groups and law enforcement and others to educate stakeholders on Cloudflare’s position on public policy and trust and safety issues.
- Develop talking points, policy narratives and presentation materials for use at external events and meetings and for other communication purposes (company blog, position papers, etc.).
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to provide strategic advice ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives of the GCC
- Provide timely updates to colleagues from the Cloudflare Public Policy, Legal, Trust & Safety Teams and other internal stakeholders.
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- 5-8+ years of related experience in government affairs, trade associations, government and law enforcement.
- Expertise with the India policy and legal system, including government and civil society stakeholders, laws and regulations related to technology companies.
- Fluency in English.
- Strong communications (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
- Team player, with a sense of humor.
- Detail oriented, well organized and a sense of initiative.
- An ambitious mindset that enables you to successfully work independently with little guidance, but also to use good judgment and escalate / call out issues when needed.
- Flexibility and willingness to jump into issues and regions that are not as familiar.
- Willingness to travel within the region and occasionally outside the region.
Preferred Qualification
- Experience in Government Affairs & Public Policy, ideally within the Tech sector or in government or public administration.
- Strong knowledge of GCC’s or multi-national tech companies in India and the relevant regulatory requirements.
- Relevant experience in engaging with Government officials in India.
- Fluency in Hindi and/or Kannada.
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.
Athenian Project: 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.
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!
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