Cloud FinOps Director, Scopely Inc

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership & Roadmap Development
  • Define and execute Scopely’s FinOps roadmap across our multi-cloud environments
  • Drive alignment between cloud financial goals and business objectives through strategic planning, forecasting and budgeting, and stakeholder collaboration
  • Stay ahead of industry best practices, innovations, and emerging vendors
• Optimization & Cost Efficiency
  • Lead efforts to identify and implement cost optimization strategies, including usage of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts
  • Optimize Scopely’s cloud infrastructure through instance and service rightsizing
  • Partner with game teams to ensure efficient cloud resource utilization and cost-effective architecture design
• Data-Driven Insights & Reporting
  • Develop cloud cost allocation methods for better accuracy, faster reporting, and more visibility across Scopely’s central and developer ecosystem
  • Increase cloud cost, usage reporting, and alerting to provide real-time, game-specific visibility into cloud spending
  • Deliver regular financial reports, forecasts, and variance analysis to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with game and central teams to discover, plan, and take action on cloud optimization opportunities
  • Collaborate with finance, central, and game teams to establish a culture of financial accountability and cost awareness
  • Drive training and evangelization of FinOps principles across the organization
• Vendor Management
  • Build and maintain strategic relationships with major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud)
  • Identify opportunities for cost savings including private pricing, vendor consolidation and migration, and optimized contract commercials

Requirements & Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, cloud cost optimization, or related fields
• 5+ years in a leadership role, managing multi-cloud environments and influencing organizational strategy
• Proven track record of driving successful FinOps initiatives in a fast-paced, cloud-native organization
• Expertise in FinOps frameworks, tools, and methodologies
• Deep knowledge of AWS, with a strong understanding of Azure and Google Cloud platforms
• Exceptional analytical and data visualization skills, using tools such as BigQuery and Looker
• Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders across diverse teams and timezones