Strategic Cloud & AI Finance Lead

Airbnb; United States; À distance; USD 168 000 - 206 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Airbnb seeks a senior Finance/FP&A leader to own the understanding, forecasting, and influence of total cloud and AI spend, spanning AWS infrastructure and AI. You will drive cost narratives and partner with Engineering and AI Platform teams to size and prioritize efficiency initiatives.

This role requires building complex financial models, leading monthly planning cycles, and presenting cost updates to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 10 years of finance, FP&A, or cost management experience, ideally including direct exposure to cloud infrastructure costs.
• Prior experience with AI/ML infrastructure costs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex financial models and forecasts in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Strong track record partnering with engineering/technical teams to translate usage data into financial narratives.

Responsabilités

• Build and maintain the monthly/weekly cloud and AI cost forecast, reconciling actuals against plan and explaining variance drivers to leadership.
• Track AI spend by category and by model/provider mix, flagging shifts in usage or pricing that affect the forecast.
• Partner with Infrastructure and AI Platform engineering teams to size, validate, and prioritize efficiency initiatives.
• Own migration-tracking reporting and ensure the underlying data is traceable back to source systems.
• Prepare and present cost updates to a broad, senior audience, translating technical usage data into clear financial narratives.
• Identify and quantify new cost efficiency opportunities in partnership with technical stakeholders, and track them through to landed savings.
• Run monthly and ad hoc reviews with Finance and Tech leadership

Connaissances

Finance & FP&A experience

Cost management & cloud infra costs

Financial modeling

Engineering collaboration

Description du poste

Airbnb seeks a senior Finance/FP&A leader to own the understanding, forecasting, and influence of total cloud and AI spend, spanning AWS infrastructure and AI. You will drive cost narratives and partner with Engineering and AI Platform teams to size and prioritize efficiency initiatives.

This role requires building complex financial models, leading monthly planning cycles, and presenting cost updates to senior leadership.