Overview
This role is a Senior Finance Business Partner for Product & Technology, partnering with Product and Technology leadership to support company growth and profitability. The position focuses on disciplined investment decisions, optimization of cloud and software margins, and ensuring new product initiatives deliver measurable ROI and long-term profitability.
You will own financial partnership across the product roadmap—from ideation and business case development through launch, scaling, and postinvestment performance tracking. A key focus area is Microsoft Azure cost management, unit economics, and customer-level cloud margin optimization.
Work Arrangement
- Remote
- Must be based in a location that aligns with Flexible across U.S. time zones
- Travel up to 10% as business needs require
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary finance partner to Product Management, Engineering, and Technology leaders.
- Support product roadmap planning with rigorous financial analysis, scenario modeling, and investment prioritization.
- Translate product and technology strategy into clear financial outcomes, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks.
- Lead financial evaluation of new product introductions (NPIs), platform investments, and major feature initiatives.
- Develop and review business cases, including TAM assumptions, pricing models, cost structures, and payback analysis.
- Establish and track ROI metrics, ensuring accountability from initial approval through post-launch performance.
- Conduct post-investment reviews to assess variance vs. plan and recommend corrective actions.
- Own financial oversight of Microsoft Azure spend, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Ops, and Security.
- Build and maintain cloud cost models, forecasts, and optimization plans.
- Monitor and analyze consumption drivers (compute, storage, data, networking) and identify cost-efficiency opportunities.
- Support FinOps initiatives, including cost allocation and usage governance.
- Manage customer-level and product-level cloud margins, including COGS attribution and profitability analysis.
- Partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering to improve software gross margin and scalability.
- Analyze pricing, packaging, and usage patterns to ensure margins improve.
- Support strategic decisions around build vs. buy, architecture changes, and platform investments.
- Own product and technology operating forecasts, including headcount, cloud spending, and capitalized development costs.
- Create executive-ready reporting highlighting financial performance, risks, and investment outcomes.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to support leadership decisions, M&A diligence, and long-range planning.
- Influence stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Cloud, and GTM teams.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field (MBA preferred but not required), or equivalent experience.
- 9–12 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Finance Business Partnering roles.
- Extensive experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams in a SaaS, cloud, or technology-driven environment.
- Strong understanding of cloud economics, preferably with firsthand experience managing Microsoft Azure spend.
- Proven experience building and managing business cases, ROI analysis, and unit economics.
- Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to technical and nonfinancial stakeholders.
- Experience in enterprise SaaS or platform-based technology businesses.
- Familiarity with FinOps practices, cost optimization tools, and cloud billing structures.
- Experience with product capitalization, software COGS, and gross margin analysis.
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
- Strong influencing and storytelling skills.
- Deep curiosity about product, technology, and customer value.
- Balance of financial rigor and business pragmatism.
- Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work.
- Must be legally authorized to work in United States; the employer does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive compensation package: $155,000–$172,000 base salary + variable component
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement savings plan with an employer contribution
- Professional development opportunities
- Time off
- Wellness initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous global parental leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee discount program
Additional Information
- Please note that employment sponsorship is not offered for this position.
- Corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.
- At this time, the employer is unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
- The employer provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
- The employer is not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.