Senior People Operations Specialist

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Cloudflare is hiring a Senior People Operations Specialist in Bangalore to lead a global payroll transformation from Workday to ADP across APAC, acting as the on the ground expert for data accuracy and readiness to go live. After rollout you’ll become the regional SME focused on the employee experience, overseeing 2–3 country workstreams, performing high volume data cleansing, and validating Workday to ADP integrations to keep Workday as the single source of truth. You’ll drive UAT, standardization, SOPs and training, and handle employee inquiries via Zendesk while partnering with Payroll, Benefits and Legal. Requires 5+ years in People Ops, APAC regional expertise, strong payroll knowledge, and clear communication. To apply, tailor your resume to show large system rollouts, data governance, and cross functional impact, and illustrate how you translate technical needs for non technical teammates; align with Cloudflare’s mission and diversity goals.

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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Available Locations: Bangalore 

What you'll do

Cloudflare is undergoing an accelerated global payroll transformation. We are looking for a technical, detail-oriented, operational minded and highly motivated Senior Operations Project Specialist to join our People Ops team as a dedicated project resource. In this role, you aren’t just “doing HR”, you will be a driving force behind the successful rollout of a global payroll system (Workday to ADP) across our APJC region. You will be our local expert on the ground, ensuring that every piece of data is accurate, validated, and ready to launch.

Following the successful implementation, you will transition into a core Senior People Operations Specialist, serving as the regional subject matter expert and an advocate for the employee experience. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Manage Concurrent Rollouts: Lead the People Operations workstreams in APJC for 2–3 countries at once, moving them through the project lifecycle from initial employee data gathering to post-implementation.
• Data Integrity & Technical Execution: Execute high-volume data cleansing and perform rigorous validation in Excel/G-Sheets to ensure Workday remains the single source of truth. You will perform detailed audits between Workday and ADP to guarantee records match during Post/Go-Live and Hypercare.
• UAT & Standardisation: Develop user scenarios and perform testing to ensure system tasks trigger as expected and reflect real-world daily operations. Replace manual, one-off tasks with a streamlined global approach. You’ll help design a global HR framework to bring consistency to each country’s operations, and play a key role in spotting where local laws or customs need a specialized touch, ensuring our global system stays compliant and relevant to every local team. 

• SOP & Training: create and maintain post-implementation Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for each country and train the local People Ops Specialist.

• Be a subject-matter expert for employee inquiries: Provide timely, high-quality support to employee inquiries through Zendesk. Act as a trusted liaison between employees and People/Payroll teams, resolving issues efficiently with empathy and accuracy.
• Elevate the employee experience through cross-functional collaboration: Act as a proactive liaison between employees and specialized teams such as Payroll, Benefits, and Legal to address and resolve complex issues efficiently and effectively.

What We’re Looking For

• Regional expertise: You understand the APAC region's needs and have experience as an HR specialist handling regional requirements not just for payroll, but for compliance, onboarding, offboarding and full employee lifecycle.
• Experience: 5+ years in People Operations or HR Admin, with a proven track record of supporting large-scale system rollouts (Workday, ADP, or similar).
• Payroll Knowledge: Deep understanding of the HR-to-Payroll pipeline and the technical nuances of the employee lifecycle across different geographies. You have a proven ability to identify data mismatches and defects before they impact payroll.
• Adaptable & Project-Minded: Experience managing multiple projects with competing deadlines. You know how to "raise your hand" early when a project timeline or data point is at risk.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead workshops and translate technical system requirements for non-technical local experts.

Systems Proficiency: High proficiency in Workday, specifically in creating/validating reports and understanding how data flows from Workday to third-party payroll providers. Experience with ADP Celergo integrations is a significant plus.

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 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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