Senior Finance Business Partner, Product & Technology
About the role
Position Overview
The Senior Finance Business Partner for Product & Technology is a senior strategic finance role responsible for partnering with our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer as an integral part of their teams to help drive company growth and profitability.
In this role, you will serve as a strategic thought partner to our Product, Engineering, and Technology leadership teams. This role sits at the intersection of finance, product strategy, and cloud economics, with a core mandate to enable disciplined investment decisions, optimize cloud and software margins, and ensure new product initiatives deliver measurable ROI and long-term profitability.
This individual will own financial partnership across the product roadmap— from ideation and business case development through launch, scaling, and postinvestment performance tracking. A critical focus of the role is Microsoft Azure cost management, unit economics, and customer-level cloud margin optimization.
This role is ideal for an analytically minded professional who thrives on analytics, collaboration, and strategic influence across a global SaaS organization.
Work Arrangement: Remote
This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary finance partner to Product Management, Engineering, and Technology leaders.
- Support product roadmap planning with rigorous financial analysis, scenario modeling, and investment prioritization.
- Translate product and technology strategy into clear financial outcomes, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks.
- Lead financial evaluation of new product introductions (NPIs), platform investments, and major feature initiatives.
- Develop and review business cases, including TAM assumptions, pricing models, cost structures, and payback analysis.
- Establish and track ROI metrics, ensuring accountability from initial approval through post-launch performance.
- Conduct post-investment reviews to assess variance vs. plan and recommend corrective actions.
- Own financial oversight of Microsoft Azure spend, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Ops, and Security.
- Build and maintain cloud cost models, forecasts, and optimization plans.
- Monitor and analyze consumption drivers (compute, storage, data, networking) and identify cost-efficiency opportunities.
- Support FinOps initiatives, including cost allocation and usage governance.
- Manage customer-level and product-level cloud margins, including COGS attribution and profitability analysis.
- Partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering to improve software gross margin and scalability.