Business Value Manager

Cloudera

Colorado Springs (CO)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 175,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Generous PTO Policy

Flexible WFH Policy

Mental & Physical Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive

Paid Volunteer Time

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Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Business Value Manager in Colorado to translate data and AI capabilities into quantified business value. You will work with sales, product, and strategy to craft value narratives, model ROI, and influence deal structures for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities include leading value discovery, building TCO/ROI analyses, and engaging C-suite stakeholders to drive AI-native operating models. This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and scalable value frameworks.

Qualifications

5+ years in value engineering, strategy consulting, or equivalent
Experience driving customer engagements and cross-functional work
Strong structured reasoning and quantitative analysis
Excellent communication, distilling complex concepts into insights
Hands-on deal/sales experience with enterprise deals
Strong financial acumen and modeling (DCF/NPV/IRR)
Ability to influence enterprise deal cycles
Understanding of data platforms, AI/ML workloads
Quantitative reasoning on AI cost drivers
Experience using AI tools to support analysis
Executive presence with CIO/CFO/CDO stakeholders
Independent ownership in high-growth environments

Responsibilities

Serve as value architect for strategic deals in a defined territory
Own value-focused customer engagements and stakeholder mapping
Embed quantified value narratives into deal strategy
Engage C-suite to shape enterprise AI and data strategies
Build CFO-grade business cases (TCO/ROI/NPV/IRR)
Lead value discovery mapping current to future-state architectures
Support multi-year deal cycles with commercial structuring
Align architectures with sales, solutions engineering and product
Lead global value initiatives and thought leadership
Develop value frameworks and case studies with customers
Represent Cloudera in executive forums on AI economics
Scale analysis with AI tools and automation

Skills

Value engineering

Executive presence

Sales experience

Quantitative analysis

Financial modeling

Structured reasoning

Communication

AI tools

Tools

LLMs

Job description

Business Area

Corp. Strategy

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Job Description

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.As a Business Value Manager, you operate at the intersection of business value, AI platform architectures, and deal strategy. You partner with account teams and customer executives to translate complex data and AI capabilities into quantified economic outcomes, shaping investment decisions, influencing deal structures, and enabling enterprises to transition toward AI-native operating models.Value Management helps Cloudera customers articulate the business and technology value of Cloudera products and capabilities on the customer’s terms. We partner with Cloudera’s largest, most strategic enterprise customers to develop robust, strategically aligned investment justifications, including TCO and ROI analyses, investment / initiative prioritization matrices, tailored customer benchmarks and value-led case studies, enterprise demand plans, and other assessments of financial impact.This is an individual contributor role.As the Business Value Manager you will work across the Value Management team and partner with the broader Cloudera Sales, Marketing, Product, and Strategy functions.

Responsibilities

Deal Support: Serve as the business value architect for strategic deals within a defined sales territory.
Stakeholder Alignment & Ownership: Take ownership of value-focused customer engagements and interactions within your territory, which involves direct stakeholder mapping and alignment to a series of senior sales leaders and their supporting account managers, solution engineers, and other members of the extended account team.
Value-Driven Deal Strategy: Drive ARR growth by embedding quantified, forward-looking value narratives into deal strategy, linking AI platform architectures and emerging AI operating models to revenue uplift, cost optimization, and risk reduction.
Executive Engagement: Engage C-suite stakeholders to shape enterprise AI and data strategies, positioning Cloudera within broader shifts toward platform consolidation, hybrid architectures, and AI-enabled business models.
Financial Business Cases: Build and present CFO-grade business cases (TCO, ROI, NPV, IRR), incorporating evolving cost dynamics such as inference workloads, utilization patterns, and long-term AI operating economics.
Value Discovery: Lead value discovery engagements to map current-state environments to future-state AI-native architectures, with explicit quantification of value drivers, investment trade-offs, and execution pathways.
Deal Cycle Support: Support complex, multi-year deal cycles through commercial structuring, scenario modeling, and competitive positioning against cloud-native and AI platform alternatives.
Solution Alignment: Align solution design with commercial objectives by partnering with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Product, ensuring architectures are optimized for performance, scalability, and durable economic efficiency in AI-driven environments.
Global Value Selling Thought Leadership & Enablement: Execute on global strategic initiatives, including Value Management-specific thought leadership and cross-functional initiatives with a value bent.
Frameworks & Methodologies: Develop value frameworks and value calculation methodologies, build value case studies and realization studies in partnership with customers, and develop and launch value-based corporate sales plays.
Thought Leadership: Represent Cloudera in executive forums, articulating perspectives on enterprise AI economics, architectural trade-offs, and the long-term implications of AI adoption on cost structures and operating models.
Scale & Automation: Leverage AI tools and automation, including LLMs and agentic workflows, to scale analysis, accelerate insight generation, and industrialize repeatable assets such as TCO models and scenario simulators.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years in value engineering, strategy consulting, or equivalent customer-facing roles
Experience driving customer engagements and/or working cross-functionally with a large or dynamic organization
Strong ability to reason in a structured manner, and deep experience with quantitative analysis
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical and financial concepts into clear, actionable insights
Hands‑on deal and sales experience, with a proven background working closely with Sales teams in complex, high-value enterprise deals
Strong commercial and financial acumen, including advanced financial modeling (DCF, NPV, IRR) and the ability to link technology decisions to P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow outcomes
Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise deal cycles, including shaping deal strategy, positioning, and commercial outcomes
Solid understanding of modern data platforms, distributed systems, and AI/ML workloads, including data pipelines, model deployment, and infrastructure trade-offs
Ability to quantitatively reason about evolving cost drivers in AI and data environments, including compute, storage, and workload patterns
Hands‑on experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, automation frameworks) to support analysis, modeling, and content generation
Strong executive presence with the ability to engage and influence CIO, CFO, CDO, and senior business stakeholders
High ownership mindset, with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-growth environments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience / knowledge of data and AI software and infrastructure, including modern AI stack (Runtime, MLOps, Inference, SLM / LLM model types), key Apache projects (Spark, Trino, Kafka, etc.), modern AI stack, private / hybrid / public cloud data and AI deployments, devops, and beyond
Experience designing or deploying enterprise AI or data platform architectures in production environments
Deep expertise in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, or Telecommunication
Experience building scalable value engineering assets such as TCO calculators, benchmarking models, or scenario simulators
Familiarity with hybrid and on‑prem AI deployments, including cost and performance trade‑offs versus public cloud

Salary and Compensation

California: $154K- 192K

Colorado: $140K-175K

Illinois: $140K-175K

Washington: $154K- 192K

Individual compensation within the published range is determined by the candidate's skills, experience, qualifications, and primary work location. In addition to base pay, sales roles are eligible for Cloudera's commission plan, while non‑sales roles are eligible for the corporate incentive plan. All employees receive a comprehensive benefits package.

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