Manager, Customer Experience and Renewals

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

• New York, NY

• Washington DC

The Manager, Customer Experience is a strategic people leader responsible for building, coaching, and scaling a high-performing team of Customer Experience Managers (CXMs). In this role, you will empower your team to lead the post-sale journey, from onboarding to long-term retention and expansion. You will serve as a mentor and escalation point, guiding your team in building strategic stakeholder relationships and articulating business value. You will lead the operational strategy for your region, ensuring accurate forecasting and driving team-wide adoption of AI-driven workflows to automate routine tasks and uncover growth opportunities. Your focus is on developing talent, optimizing the customer journey, and scaling our CX organization to accelerate customer outcomes and maximize operational efficiency.

Team Leadership & Career Development

• Directly manage and coach a team of CXMs, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous learning.

• Drive career development initiatives, including regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and skill-gap analysis to prepare team members for growth.

Operational Strategy & Performance Management

• Oversee regional forecasting and pipeline hygiene in Salesforce, ensuring accurate reporting to leadership.

• Establish and optimize operational workflows, including the integration of AI tools for account quoting and automated lifecycle alerts.

Cross-Functional Alignment & Escalation

• Act as the ultimate point of escalation for complex commercial negotiations, legal redlines, and commercial business issues.

• Maintain strong alignment with Sales, Product, and Support leadership to resolve friction points in the customer journey.

AI Competencies

• Generative AI: Mastery of LLMs to rapidly draft renewal communications, synthesize quarterly review data, and prepare executive summaries.

• Data Analysis: Proficiency in leveraging AI analytics tools to parse customer usage metrics and instantly highlight up-sell or cross-sell opportunities.

• Workflow Automation: Ability to build automations to