Strategic Director, FinOps & Cloud Optimization

FinOps Weekly; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

FinOps Weekly seeks a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead enterprise efforts connecting strategy, governance, automation, and financial accountability for technology investments across cloud and AI.

You will partner with engineering teams, senior leadership, and technology stakeholders to improve utilization, cost transparency, and forecasting while building reporting, allocation models, and executive dashboards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in FinOps, cloud cost management, or technology finance.
• Strong leadership for enterprise-scale optimization programs.
• Deep knowledge of AWS/Azure pricing, billing models, and optimization.
• Experience with AI/generative AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise FinOps strategy across cloud and AI platforms.
• Lead executive reviews of cloud, platform, and AI spend with recommendations.
• Drive forecasting, budgeting, chargeback, showback, and optimization programs.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve utilization, cost transparency.
• Lead FinOps tooling, tagging governance, allocation models, and reporting.
• Establish tagging standards and cost governance controls.
• Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, and operational scorecards.
• Own AI cost governance including credit consumption, model usage, inference costs, forecasting, allocation methods, and reporting.
• Track AI spend trends, allocations, and ROI.

Skills

FinOps leadership

Executive communication

Forecasting & budgeting

Cloud economics

AI cost governance

Tools

Coin

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Databricks

Snowflake

APIs

Automation frameworks

Job description

FinOps Weekly seeks a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead enterprise efforts connecting strategy, governance, automation, and financial accountability for technology investments across cloud and AI.

You will partner with engineering teams, senior leadership, and technology stakeholders to improve utilization, cost transparency, and forecasting while building reporting, allocation models, and executive dashboards.