Director, Cloud Engineering & Operations, FinOps

Description

Director, Cloud Fin Ops

Location:
Remote, USA

Employment Type:
Full-Time

Compensation: $158,500 - $198,250 (Range applies to US candidates only) + Benefits/Variable Comp/Equity - Range may vary based on experience.

Benefits Offered:
Vision, Medical, Life, Dental, 401K

Summary

As Director, Cloud Fin Ops, you'll own the strategy and execution of all financial aspects of our public-cloud operations. You'll partner across Engineering, Finance, Product, and Operations, working with an experienced leadership team committed to technical excellence and fiscal discipline to ensure that every dollar of cloud spend drives measurable value, scale, and performance. You'll drive tangible business impact through smarter cloud economics by leading a team that turns cloud usage data into business insight, drives accountability for cost decisions, and builds the automation and governance that keeps One Stream's SaaS platform efficient and profitable.

Expect ambiguity, shifting priorities, and high expectations for delivery and clarity. You'll need to be comfortable with both strategic thinking and hands-on execution (dashboards, cost reviews, and chargeback models). Great for someone who thrives balancing business impact with technical cost levers.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive cloud financial management framework across our SaaS offering: forecasting, budgeting, actuals vs. plan, cost allocation, unit economics (e.g., cost per customer, cost per node/tenant/instance).
• Lead cloud cost optimization programs: e.g., reserved commitments/savings plans, right-sizing, idle resource elimination, tagging and chargeback/cleanup initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering/Cloud Ops/Product teams to integrate cloud cost visibility into operations (dashboards, KPIs, alerts) and instill.
• Fin Ops culture (cost awareness, cost accountability).
• Drive reporting for executive leadership and the board: highlight cost-trends, anomalies, savings progress, risk of overruns, and tradeoffs between cost, performance and growth.
• Define and enforce governance and controls around cloud cost and usage: tagging standards, cost-allocation models, approval workflows for new services, cloud contract negotiation/commitment reviews.
• Lead a team of Fin Ops analysts/engineers: hire, coach, set strategy, measure effectiveness and build influence across the organization.
• Collaborate with Finance/FP&A to ensure that cloud costs are correctly reflected in financial planning, customer-unit economics, pricing discussions, and business case modelling for new products or global expansion.
• Stay abreast of public-cloud provider pricing models (AWS, Azure, GCP), emerging cloud-cost tools, and Fin Ops best practices, bring innovation in cost management automation, tagging enforcement, anomaly detection and internal chargeback.
• Support M&A, product launches or major cloud migrations by providing financial modelling of cloud cost impact, run-rate changes, and forecasting scenarios.
• Own the narrative around cloud cost in the SaaS business: translate technical cloud-usage metrics into business implications for growth, margin and scalability.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering required.
• Professional certifications strongly desired:
  Fin Ops Certified Practitioner or Professional (Fin Ops Foundation) or Cloud certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, or GCP Cloud Digital Leader.
• 10-15 years of progressive experience in cloud financial management, cost optimization, or technology finance, ideally within a SaaS or large-scale enterprise cloud environment.
• 5+ years in a leadership role, managing teams and driving cross-functional initiatives that span Finance, Engineering, and Operations.
• Proven track record in establishing and maturing a Fin Ops practice, implementing governance, cost-allocation models, show back/chargeback, and optimization programs.
• Deep knowledge of public-cloud pricing and billing models (AWS, Azure, GCP) and demonstrate success in optimizing committed spend, reserved instances, and savings plans.
• Proficiency with Fin Ops and cloud-cost management tools.
• Strong financial modeling and forecasting capability, connecting cloud spend to unit economics (cost per customer, feature, or workload) and business metrics (ARR, COGS, gross margin).
• Experience developing and presenting executive-level reporting and insights to senior leadership and boards, including trend analysis, variance, and risk projections.
• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Product Management to align financial outcomes with technical priorities.
• Proven ability to lead automation and tooling initiatives that increase cost visibility, tagging accuracy, and real-time spend governance.
• Experience in high-growth SaaS or multi-tenant environments with measurable improvements in cost efficiency and…