AI Strategy & FinOps Lead - Enterprise Optimization

FinOps Weekly; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Sr. Manager for AI strategy in New York to lead AI-driven cost optimization and engineering efficiency initiatives. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Data, and Finance to scale AI solutions and FinOps practices.

You will define governance, develop executive dashboards, and optimize cloud spend across Snowflake, Aerospike, and Databricks while driving measurable business value and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI/ML solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and practical application of large language models.
• Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost management, budgeting, and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost optimization initiatives across audience, identity, measurement, decisioning, activation, and platform engineering.
• Develop AI-driven solutions to improve productivity, automate tasks, and accelerate software delivery.
• Establish engineering efficiency metrics and monitor cloud spend and platform economics.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Innovation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Snowflake

Aerospike

Databricks

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Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Sr. Manager for AI strategy in New York to lead AI-driven cost optimization and engineering efficiency initiatives. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Data, and Finance to scale AI solutions and FinOps practices.

You will define governance, develop executive dashboards, and optimize cloud spend across Snowflake, Aerospike, and Databricks while driving measurable business value and operational excellence.