Senior Product Manager - FinOps

• A role that connects technology, finance and the wider business, combining product management with practical FinOps expertise

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Launchpad is part of Global Technology and creates/procures/manages products and capabilities that help REA's technology teams work more effectively, safely and efficiently.

The Senior Product Manager - FinOps owns the FinOps product capability and FinOps support processes: the products, insights, controls and ways of working that help REA make informed decisions about cloud and technology spend.

This role has two connected responsibilities:

• Delivering FinOps as a productised capability, through experiences such as FinOut dashboards, cost insights in Realm and budget-limit alerting, as well as the roadmap of future capabilities.
• Supporting the holistic financial operations of REA's cloud spend, in partnership with Finance and technology stakeholders, through guidance, analysis, forecasting, governance and savings initiatives.

• Own and continuously evolve the FinOps product vision, strategy, roadmap, prioritisation and backlog in line with REA's technology and financial goals
• Lead discovery with engineering, product, finance, procurement and business stakeholders to understand needs, pain points and opportunities
• Deliver and improve productised FinOps capabilities, including FinOut dashboards, cost insights in Realm and budget-limit alerting
• Define the product outcomes, measures and adoption approach for FinOps capabilities; use data and feedback to improve their value and experience
• Make cloud cost information clear, trusted and actionable for different audiences, from engineers and product teams through to technology and finance leaders
• Provide guidance and subject-matter expertise on cloud cost management, optimisation and responsible resource usage across REA's cloud environments
• Partner with Finance on cloud spend reporting including AI, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and other financial operations
• Identify, prioritise, coordinate and track cloud savings opportunities, including usage optimisation, rightsizing, commitment management and other relevant commercial or technical levers
• Establish and improve governance, standards and guardrails for cost allocation, ownership,tagging, budgets, alerts and resource lifecycle management
• Help teams understand the financial impact of technology decisions and embed cost considerations into planning, architecture and delivery practices
• Build strong relationships with cloud providers, FinOps tooling vendors and internal partners to maximise the value of REA's technology investments
• Retain strategic oversight of software and SaaS optimisation, working with Finance, Procurement, Legal, Risk and technology stakeholders to improve usage, commercial outcomes and lifecycle decisions for material products and services
• Communicate progress, risks, insights and recommendations clearly, and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority

• An experienced product manager who can own an internal technology product from discovery through to delivery, adoption and continuous improvement
• Someone who combines product thinking with strong commercial, analytical and financial acumen
• A pragmatic FinOps practitioner who can move comfortably between detailed cloud cost data and the strategic decisions it informs
• Someone who can turn complex financial and technical information into simple, useful experiences, recommendations and actions
• A collaborative partner who can work effectively with engineers, architects, product managers, finance professionals, procurement specialists, executives and vendors
• A confident communicator and influencer who can build alignment, challenge constructively and create momentum across a distributed organisation
• Someone who is comfortable operating with ambiguity, shaping a new or evolving capability and taking end-to-end ownership for outcomes
• A person who is motivated by helping teams make better decisions, not just by producing reports or reducing cost in isolation

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working
• Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
• Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
• Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life