Cloud Cost Program Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior executives and senior engineers to develop and implement department-wide cloud cost saving and optimization programs.
• Effectively communicate program goals, activities, progress, and risks to stakeholders with different backgrounds, including financial, engineering, and operations, translating technical concepts into business impacts.
• Build cross-departmental relationships to solve cloud usage and cost problems.
• Engage with cloud provider representatives (e.g., TAM) to bring back best practices and change notifications to engineering and leadership teams and share requests for support.
• Develop and maintain effective status reports for cloud cost and engineering team progress on cost-saving projects.
• Review and summarize large data sets to provide insight to senior executives on progress toward meeting cloud cost, tagging, and optimization goals.
• Support engineers' cost management activities by building custom cost reports and lists of savings opportunities.
• Coordinate implementation of new cloud financial management tools for cloud cost management by engineering teams.
• Manage multiple complex department-wide initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and centralized technical teams.
• Develop and implement process improvements for managing cloud costs.
• Solicit cloud cost saving project ideas, estimate potential savings, and prioritize them with input from engineering teams.
• Coordinate collaboration between engineering teams to share best practices for reviewing and optimizing cloud spend.
• Summarize detailed cloud cost levers and tasks into high-level themes and conduct periodic briefings to stakeholders and executive management.
• Train and educate engineers on reviewing and tracking their cloud spending.
• Manage the cloud spend forecast, solicit input from engineering teams, and communicate expected spend to finance for budgeting.
• Review inter-company chargebacks with News Corp and Finance teams to ensure accuracy.

Requirements

• Proficiency in AWS and/or GCP cost management tools and platforms.
• Experience with data analysis and report generation, translating technical concepts into business impacts.
• Ability to review inter-company chargebacks with a high degree of ownership and accuracy.
• Ability to summarize information and generate actionable next steps.
• Lead effective virtual meetings, holding senior leaders accountable for outcomes.
• Familiarity with cloud resource tagging strategies and implementation.
• Comfortable owning cloud savings targets and initiatives, proactively soliciting input from engineering teams and communicating expected spend for budgeting.
• Experience with forecasting in a matrixed organizational environment.
• Build cross-departmental relationships to solve cloud usage and cost problems.
• Engagement with cloud provider representatives to bring back best practices and support requests.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a technical program management or cloud operations role.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and best practices.
• Experience with cloud financial management tools.

Nice to Have

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a technical program management or cloud operations role.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program