CloudZero

Staff FinOps Account Manager

CloudZero

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Ongoing strategic customer segment onboarding and implementation initiatives, including addressing ad hoc requests
  • Mentor, coach and train fellow FAMs on continuous improvement and enablement
  • Form and maintain strong strategic relationships across key customer personas; Provide leadership and domain expertise in gaining credibility across senior management
  • Communicate value and monitor performance metrics/KPIs to include conducting periodic executive business reviews
  • Be the Customer Success ambassador for the product, engineering and go-to-market teams; work within CS team and cross-functionally in driving initiatives, innovation, idea sharing, and insights representing the customer voice
  • Introduce new products/features and champion the business outcomes process with the customer
  • Solve complex customer/vendor issues and proactively prevent negative service trends.
  • Build and monitor customer adoption metrics to drive best in class NPS
  • Support retention and expansion for the strategic customer segment (Customers above $300k ARR)
  • Develop, modify and maintain the operational and design effectiveness of internal customer controls
  • Develop repeatable and scalable technical solutions that can be converted into a playbook or a runbook based on a variety of factors such as customer size, roadmap, and requirements
  • Lead joint success planning workshops, analysis, testing, and support for internal initiatives, projects, and products designed to enhance company tools (e.g CZOPS) and other capabilities
  • Create and maintain standards for data analysis, presentations, and explanations that are clear and concise for both internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience consulting on AWS, GCP, and/or Azure services/solutions.
  • 7+ years of experience in a Customer Success Manager, FinOps Account Manager or related role.
  • Ability to execute in a high velocity, transformative, B2B SaaS tech environment.
  • Positive attitude with passion for growing, coaching others, and feedback.
  • Highly collaborative, ability to create lasting partnerships with R&D and GTM.
  • Ability to train and mentor others.
  • Developed, documented and/or communicated financial analysis and optimization recommendations for cloud services with both tech and finance teams.
  • Expertise in understanding spend/resource reservations across the various clouds.
  • Expertise in understanding the benefits (and limitations) of tagging/labeling and can consult with customers on tagging strategies.
  • Strong passion for data and ability to help customers achieve better outcomes by leveraging their own data.
  • Ability to analyze complex datasets in Excel using advanced concepts such as v-lookups, index matches, named ranges, and pivot tables.
  • Experience building BI dashboards (Quicksight, Looker, Domo, Tableau, etc.).
  • Expert in authoring SQL.
  • FinOps certification required.
  • Hold at least one AWS, GCP and/or Azure certification
  • Introduction to FinOps
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner
  • FinOps Certified Engineer
  • FOCUS Certification
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Preferred Certifications:
  • AWS Solution Architect
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader
  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Azure AZ-900
  • Azure Cost Module
Benefits
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Commission
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSGCPAzureSQLExcelBI dashboardsdata analysisfinancial analysiscloud services optimizationtagging strategies
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachingcollaborationcommunicationcustomer successproblem-solvingrelationship buildingpositive attitudefeedbackstrategic thinking
Certifications
FinOps certificationAWS Cloud PractitionerAWS Solution ArchitectGoogle Cloud Digital LeaderGoogle Associate Cloud EngineerAzure AZ-900FinOps Certified PractitionerFinOps Certified EngineerIntroduction to FinOpsFOCUS Certification