
Staff FinOps Account Manager
CloudZero
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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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