Taylor Smith

About Taylor Smith

With a design and engineering background, I experiment to learn, revel in the details, and build relationships across disciplines. I help teams ship and scale so we can empower our customers to build exciting experiences on the web.

Experience

1. Product Manager, Stream Live and Video-on-demand

   Cloudflare

   Jun 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Live, On-Demand, and Ultra-Low Latency managed video streaming platform that makes video “so easy it just works” by providing intuitive API; predictable end-to-end pricing; legacy and next-generation protocol interoperability; global scale. Sustained 50% Y/Y growth in count of active accounts; delivered $7M rack rate equivalent billings in 2025Q4- Media Transformations — Launched new product to dynamically extract and optimize short-form video, eliminating migration friction. Supports enterprise retail, generative AI, and social media customers displacing Cloudinary and Akamai IVM- Automated Captioning — Launched AI-powered captioning feature to transcribe content with one click, meeting compliance and accessibility requirements of public sector, healthcare, education customers. 20K operations weekly- Created and maintained product roadmap, owned and communicated strategic vision. Wrote sales enablement material, public-facing pricing guide, integration tutorials and code samples, whiteboards, and prototypes. Championed key customer relationships in core verticals with frequent direct interaction; actively participated in community outreach.

Education

• The University of Tulsa

  BFA, Graphic Design / Advertising

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Wordpress
• Graphic Design
• Branding & Identity
• Indesign
• Advanced Css
• Social Media
• Jquery
• Illustrator
• Html
• Javascript
• Jira
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Mysql
• Drupal
• Linux
• Photoshop
• Scrum
• Agile Web Development
• Css
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)