Senior Manager - Cloud FinOps and Cost Engineering

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Finance, FinOps, Leadership Skill, Optimization, Product Development

Job Description

Spotify's Technology Procurement function, part of our Platform Mission, is hiring a Senior Manager with Cloud FinOps experience to lead the Cost Engineering team. This team enables us to constructively support hyper-scale usage and growth in close collaboration with engineering, bridging the world of finance and tech. The mission enables our R&D, procurement, financial functions and vendors to make well-informed decisions about infrastructure and managed services by providing insights and advice regarding how to use and develop our partnerships.

Cost Engineering is our newest product area under Technology Procurement. The team is expected to:

Deliver cultural change across Spotify to optimize Streaming Delivery Costs Advocate for Cloud Cost practices in the organization through education, standardization, and cultural growth and support

Reinforce confidence around budgets, spend predictability and forecasts across R&D

Quickly bring new, high-quality cost & climate tooling products and features to our users, promoting and increasing adoption

Provide guidance to engineering teams to have a cost-effective application/service by identifying anomalies and best practices.

Work together with engineering teams to identify rate reductions and possible cost avoidance

Accurately budget, forecast, and report cloud costs to Finance and the BoD

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of analysts, data scientists and engineers specialized in Cloud FinOps, Cloud Economics, Cloud Financial Engineering, or Cloud Cost Optimization concepts.
• Be a valued technical leader in an agile environment, within our Platform division, and Spotify in general.
• Lead and enable the vision and long-term strategy for Cost Engineering at Spotify.
• You will partner closely with Engineering across R&D and beyond to build a strong strategy for balanced cost across the organization.
• You will partner with Finance, Engineering, and Product leaders across Platform and Spotify to enable large-scale collaboration on cost infrastructure projects.
• Drive accountability to engineering teams that are responsible for the application/services/infrastructure.
• Enable learning and knowledge sharing across the organization, leveling up our engineering and insights practices and mentoring other leads.
• Create an industry-leading cost allocation model to drive and advise product and market-based decisions
• Develop and mentor product management disciplines within the team to create value to our internal and external customers.

Who You Are

• You have been a leader of a cost engineering organization driving significant impact for cloud cost optimization.
• Proven experience as a people manager who has led and built an effective team with members working remotely across different countries and time zones.
• You know how to partner with Technology Sourcing/Procurement, Vendor Management, and how to find opportunities to collaborate and extract value from our public cloud partners
• You have experience of partnering closely with FP&A to ensure cost transparency and accurate cost allocation
• You have experience collaborating with engineers on cloud cost-reduction programs; and promoting a persistent culture of cost savings and optimization
• Experience with public cloud is a must and knowing Google Compute Platform is a plus.

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

The United States base range for this position is USD185000-265000, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.