Cloud Cost Program Manager
Cloud Cost Program Manager
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$ 135000 - 165000
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Job Description:
About Our Organization:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats including print digital mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the worlds largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal Americas largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barrons MarketWatch Mansion Global Financial News Investors Business Daily Factiva Dow Jones Risk & Compliance Dow Jones Newswires OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS NWSA; ASX: NWS NWSLV).
About the Team:
Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology Engineering Data Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions we shape the digital landscape for our customers readers and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data mobile video and social platforms our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.
About the Role:
The Program Manager Cloud Costs and FinOps role will lead cost tracking optimization and efficiency efforts that span all engineering departments at Dow Jones. These include AWS and GCP cost tracking cloud governance best practices implementation and management of cost reduction or efficiency efforts.
You Will:
Program Management
- Partner with senior executives and senior engineers to develop and implement department-wide cloud cost saving and optimization programs
- Effectively communicate program goals activities progress and risks to stakeholders with different backgrounds including financial engineering and operations. Translate technical concepts into business impacts.
- Build cross-departmental relationships to solve cloud usage/cost problems
- Engage with cloud provider representatives (e.g. TAM) to bring back best practices and change notifications to engineering and leadership teams and share our requests for support
Reporting & Tooling
- Develop and maintain effective status reports for cloud cost and engineering team progress on cost-saving projects
- Review and summarize large data sets to provide insight to senior executives on progress toward meeting cloud cost tagging and optimization goals
- Support engineers cost management activities by building custom cost reports and custom lists of savings opportunities
- Coordinate implementation of new cloud financial management tool for cloud cost management by engineering teams
Project Management
- Manage multiple complex department-wide initiatives that require action from multiple engineering teams within Dow Jones and with News Corp centralized technical teams
Best practices
- Develop and implement process improvements for managing cloud costs
- Solicit cloud cost saving project ideas from multiple sources estimate their potential savings and prioritize them with input from the engineering teams.
- Coordinate collaboration between engineering teams to share best practices for reviewing and optimizing cloud spend
- Summarize detailed cloud cost levers and tasks into high-level themes and conduct periodic briefings/status updates to stakeholders and executive management
- Train and educate engineers on how to review and track their cloud spending
Budgeting/Finance review
- Manage the cloud spend forecast soliciting input from engineering teams and communicating expected spend to finance for budgeting
- Review inter-company chargeback with News Corp and Finance teams to ensure accuracy
You Have:
Technical Requirements:
- Proficiency in AWS and/or GCP cost management tools and platforms.
- Experience with data analysis and report generation translating technical concepts into business impacts. Review inter-company chargebacks with a high degree of ownership and accuracy. Ability to summarize information and generate actionable next steps is crucial.
- Lead effective virtual meetings holding senior leaders accountable for outcomes.
- Familiarity with cloud resource tagging strategies and implementation.
- Comfortable owning cloud savings targets and initiatives. Proactive in soliciting input from engineering teams and communicating expected spend to finance for budgeting. Experience with forecasting in a matrixed organizational environment is required.
- Build cross-departmental relationships to solve cloud usage/cost problems
- Engage with cloud provider representatives (e.g. TAM) to bring back best practices and change notifications to engineering and leadership teams and share our requests for support
Prior Experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in a technical program management or cloud operations role.
- Knowledge of FinOps principles and best practices.
- Experience with cloud financial management tools.
Nice to Have:
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or FinOps Certified Practicioner certification
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Insurance Plans
- Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
- Education Benefits
- Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program
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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application due to a disability email us at Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.Business Area:
Dow Jones - TechnologyJob Category:
Project/Program ManagementUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $135000 - $165000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
