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Overview
Plaid is seeking a FinOps Program Manager to optimize financial accountability and visibility across engineering-related spend. Join us in empowering financial transformation for millions. We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
What you'll do
- •Monitors and analyzes engineering spend across cloud, AI/ML, data platforms, and SaaS, identifying trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
- •Builds and maintains forecasts for engineering spend, partnering with Finance and engineering leaders to understand drivers, assumptions, and risks.
- •Partners with engineering, product, and TPMs to incorporate cost considerations into roadmaps, architectural decisions, and execution plans.
- •Leads cost optimization initiatives, such as rightsizing, commitment strategies, and workload efficiency improvements, in collaboration with engineering owners.
- •Creates and maintains dashboards and reporting that make spend understandable and actionable for both engineers and executives.
- •Implements FinOps practices and processes, including showback/chargeback models, unit economics, and cost ownership frameworks.
- •Partners on tooling and automation, working with data and engineering teams to improve cost visibility, forecasting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
- •Drives alignment and behavior change, helping teams balance cost, performance, reliability, and velocity through data-driven decision making.
Conditions
- •Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
- •Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- •Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.
- •Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.