FinOps Advocate (GCP, Azure)

North.Cloud; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

16-week parental leave (24 weeks for 2

Sabbatical every four years

Medical PPO plan with premium covered

Job summary

North.Cloud is hiring FinOps Advocates in New York to lead cloud cost optimization on GCP and Azure. You will work with prospects, customers, and our product team, bringing hands-on experience with real cloud spend and cost management.

This practitioner role emphasizes deep cloud FinOps expertise, ownership of cost outcomes, and collaboration with executives on strategic decisions. The position reports to leadership and operates in a hybrid New York setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years running cloud FinOps, either as head of a practice or in product management at a vendor.
• Ownership of cloud cost outcomes rather than advisory involvement alone.
• Deep fluency in GCP, Azure, or both, with hands-on billing data interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Join evaluations as the technical authority on GCP and Azure costs from first call through close.
• Explain GCP/Azure billing data and identify meaningful savings opportunities.
• Run proof-of-concept engagements and honestly assess fit.
• Stay involved post-signature to help customers build a FinOps practice with North.
• Identify accounts where adoption has stalled and address issues before renewal.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

GCP expertise

Azure expertise

Billing data interpretation

Pre-sales experience

Tools

BigQuery billing data

Azure Cost Management

Cloud Billing exports

Job description

The public cloud is rapidly evolving, with businesses investing over $200B annually in cloud technology. As AI accelerates demand for scalable infrastructure, cloud costs are soaring, and most teams still rely on spreadsheets to manage them.

At North, we're building the next-generation cloud, AI, and data spend management platform. We give companies real-time visibility, control, and automation over their digital asset finances, so they can grow efficiently without wasting time or money.

Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by global customers like Brave, The New York Public Library, and SumUp, we're assembling a world-class team to redefine how businesses manage cloud infrastructure.

About the Role

The people who buy North have run FinOps practices themselves. They can tell within ten minutes whether the person across the table has done the same. We want that person on our side of the table, and we want them shaping what we build next.

This is not a sales role and it is not a marketing role. It is a practitioner seat. You will spend your time with prospects, customers, and our product team, and the thread running through all three is that you have done this work at scale with real money on the line.

We are hiring two FinOps Advocates. One goes deep on AWS. This position will serve as our authority on GCP and Azure. You should have deep expertise in at least one of these platforms and meaningful hands-on experience with the other.

You will report to Matt Biringer, our CEO and Co-Founder, and partner closely with our Principal Product Manager.

What You'll Do

• Join evaluations as the technical authority on GCP and Azure costs, from the first call through close
• Walk cloud leaders and CFOs through what their GCP and Azure billing data is actually telling them and where the meaningful savings opportunities are
• Run proof-of-concept engagements and answer difficult questions directly, including when the honest answer is that North is not the right fit yet
• Stay involved after signature, helping new customers build a FinOps practice around North rather than simply switching it on
• Identify accounts where adoption has stalled, diagnose why, and address the underlying issues before the renewal conversation does
• Pressure-test releases against real customer environments before they ship and identify where our GCP or Azure coverage is incomplete or incorrect
• Help North account for the differences between GCP and Azure billing structures, commitments, allocation models, discounts, and organizational hierarchies
• Work with our Principal Product Manager and CEO to determine what goes on the roadmap and what comes off it, bringing evidence from the field
• Represent North publicly through writing, speaking, and involvement in the FinOps and cloud communities

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years running cloud FinOps, either as the head of a practice inside a company or in product management at a vendor in this space
• Ownership of cloud cost outcomes rather than advisory involvement alone
• Deep fluency in GCP, Azure, or both, with hands-on experience interpreting billing data and identifying the operational activity behind it
• For GCP: experience with Cloud Billing exports, BigQuery billing data, resource hierarchy, labels, Committed Use Discounts, and enterprise pricing agreements
• For Azure: experience with Azure Cost Management and Billing, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tags, Reservations, Savings Plans, and enterprise agreements or cloud commitments
• Experience designing tagging, labeling, allocation, showback, or chargeback systems that survive contact with engineering teams
• Experience managing commitments, forecasting cloud demand, and balancing savings against utilization and lock-in risk
• An understanding of the challenges involved in normalizing cost and usage data across cloud providers
• Credibility with both finance and engineering audiences, with the ability to move between them in the same meeting
• Comfort operating in pre-sales without a quota, serving as the technical authority rather than the closer
• A track record of turning customer or practitioner patterns into product requirements that shipped
• Willingness to disagree with a product decision and make the case directly to the CEO
• Strong written communication, since much of the influence in this role happens through documents
• Comfort with ambiguity and with a role that is still being drawn

Nice to Have

• FinOps Foundation certification or active involvement in the FinOps community
• Deep expertise in both GCP and Azure
• Experience managing multi-cloud environments that also include AWS
• A point of view on AI, GPU, and inference spend, including services such as Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and cloud-based GPU infrastructure
• Familiarity with FOCUS and the realities of normalizing billing data across providers
• Experience optimizing Kubernetes costs across GKE or AKS
• Experience at an early-stage company where the role was not fully defined on day one

Work Setup

This is a hybrid role based in New York City, with an office in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

• Unlimited PTO
• 16-week fully paid parental leave (20 weeks at 50% for mothers)
• Company-wide breaks during the last week of August and from December 23 through January 3
• The opportunity to participate in company benefits, including a Medical PPO Plan with the majority of the premium covered by North
• 30-day sabbatical every four years

The pay range for this role is:

130,000 - 180,000 USD per year (Brooklyn HQ)