Remote Head of FOCUS Product, Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join our fast-moving team as FinOps Foundation Product Owner for FOCUS, providing product leadership, release planning, backlog grooming, and direct leadership of functional activities. Serve as a Maintainer, working with the program manager, SteerCo chair, Technical Leads, and other FinOps Foundation personnel.

Requirements

• Successful experience managing a technology or cloud product in a collaborative environment with a multi-year, multi-release roadmap
• Deep and broad experience and understanding of cloud billing data, SaaS billing data, data center billing data, licensing, and financial management generally
• Perspectives and experience on cloud billing data from the perspective of a provider of data and as a consumer of data
• Deep or broad experience as a user of one or more clouds services, and a general understanding of all categories of cloud services
• Deep experience in one or more of the FinOps Persona roles, with a clear understanding of all other FinOps Personas and their objectives and needs
• Multiple years of experience in the FinOps community and with the practice of FinOps directly as a practitioner or practicing consultant
• Experience with data structures, data schemas, data science, data analytics or business intelligence in big data infrastructures, preferably cloud billing data
• Technical experience with data management concepts and data manipulation software or software languages
• Experience and facility using github or other code repositories, Google Workspace tools, Zoom, and Slack, and history responsibly administering these environments
• Excellent communications skills and presentation ability
• Ability to get things done expediently and ability to rally others to make progress on sometimes challenging issues, achieving negotiated balance
• Experience working in an open-source environment, with volunteers from competing or related organizations, and managing the complex interactions between them
• Experience managing conflict, stalemates, complex issues, and interpersonal challenges between members of an organization
• Ability to empathetically coordinate win-win outcomes from conflicts and disagreements among coworkers or volunteers, while minimizing the risk of disengagement or hostility
• Ability to collate a variety of points of view and competing priorities from a very diverse set of stakeholders to create outcomes that are inclusive and balanced

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the FOCUS Product roadmap, including release plans over the foreseeable future for Project development and related asset development in the FinOps Foundation
• Directly represent the FinOps Foundation and its community in defining features and releases which support the practice of FinOps
• Support the maintainers, contributors, and task forces in the work detailed by the FOCUS Project, taking input from them in grooming the backlog of feature development requests into releases, and accomplishing work
• Maintain direct, and ongoing, communications with FOCUS Maintainers, and FinOps Foundation FOCUS User Group leads to coordinate work efforts
• Maintain ongoing communication channels with representatives of all cloud service provider members of the FOCUS Project to support and guide their efforts toward the end goals of the FOCUS Project
• Provide direct thought leadership and content matter expertise to the group, ensuring progress is made toward goals as required to meet release deadlines
• Develop and promote broad communication of FOCUS Project goals, objectives, plans, releases, and details to the broad community of FinOps Practitioners
• Regularly speak and present at FOCUS meetings, FinOps events, and industry forums on the benefits and details of implementation of FOCUS
• Support the development of FOCUS-based deliverables and assets for the FinOps Foundation among FOCUS Members and the general community
• Gather requirements from FinOps practitioners for FOCUS use cases, working with FOCUS User Group lead
• Enable FOCUS Members and prospective vendors to understand FOCUS, find gaps and contribute standard implementations
• Enable customer adoption of FOCUS and its implementation