Digital Communications Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$170K/yr – $234K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the digital voice and executive storytelling for a tech enterprise, translating complex security and infrastructure topics into compelling multichannel narratives.

  • Digital strategy: define the overall vision for corporate channels and audience-focused storytelling.
  • Executive enablement: partner with leadership to scale personal brands and translate industry trends into online narratives.
  • Channel and crisis leadership: manage social channels, expand into technical communities, and drive rapid, data-driven crisis responses.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect the Digital Strategy: Define the overarching vision for Cloudflare’s corporate digital channels, ensuring our voice is distinct, authoritative, and deeply understood by tech-savvy audiences and enterprise buyers alike.
  • Elevate Executive Positioning: Partner directly with our executive leadership team to shape and scale their personal digital brands, turning complex industry trends into compelling online narratives.
  • Drive Multi-Channel Storytelling: Manage our corporate social media channels (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) while expanding our strategic footprint into emerging platforms and technical communities.
  • Bridge Tech and Culture: Translate highly complex technical milestones—from network infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography—into creative, engaging, and accessible digital content.
  • Crisis & Rapid Response: Act as a critical node in our crisis management engine. When internet-scale events happen, you will ensure our digital response is swift, transparent, accurate, and aligned with our core values.
  • Data-Driven Optimization: Establish robust measurement frameworks to track brand sentiment, share of voice, and engagement, continuously iterating our strategy based on hard data.

Requirements

  • Experience: 10+ years of experience in corporate communications, digital strategy, or brand journalism, with at least 4+ years leading high-performing digital or social teams in the B2B tech or SaaS space.
  • Deep Tech Literacy: You don’t need to write code, but you must be able to hold your own with engineers and product managers. You understand how the Internet works and can explain the "why" behind cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity.
  • Platform Fluent: You know the algorithms, subcultures, and unwritten rules of LinkedIn, X, Reddit, YouTube, and Threads. You know what builds authentic engagement and what feels like cringe corporate noise.
  • Exceptional Judgment: You possess a flawless editorial compass. You know exactly when to jump on a viral trend, when to remain serious, and how to handle sensitive geopolitical or cybersecurity issues online.
  • Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams, from Legal and Product to Policy and Investor Relations.

Preferred

  • You have a background in tech journalism or have managed communications for an open-source project.
  • You are an active participant in the tech ecosystem yourself (portfolio, blog, or digital projects).
  • You have a genuine obsession with making the internet a faster, safer, and more reliable place.

Benefits

  • 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
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Cloudflare

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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Founded in 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
6.4K employees (363 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend
53% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$429.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.4%
Direct
63.9%
Referral
5.8%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
280 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
3.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$2.3B
Last Raise
$1.8B
Post IPO Debt, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.8B
  • Mar 2019
    Series E • $150M
  • Aug 2017
    Secondary Market

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