Senior Manager Cloud FinOps and Cost Engineering

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

Where in the world? This role will be located in the UK
Working hours? We operate within Central Europe for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off – fully paid – for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

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