Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring First Product Manager to Shift FinOps Left

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Overview We were the first to shift FinOps left, and we see a big opportunity to make the $600B/year spent on cloud proactively managed, instead of teams reacting to surprise cost spikes. Reactive is too late, we already tried that approach with our first startup. Join us as our first PM 🚀 This is a high-impact role at the heart of our product and growth strategy. You’ll own critical parts of our roadmap, from early-stage discovery through to GTM, and shape how we scale. You’ll work directly with Ali, co-founder who leads product and customer success, and your own dedicated team of senior engineers and a designer. Check out this product announcement blog for examples of the types of complex problems we’re solving for engineering and FinOps teams at large enterprises; while also obsessing over developer experience: AutoFix pull requests to make it 10x easier for engineers to fix cloud cost issues, using static analysis + LLMs to generate actionable code fixes, tailored to each customer’s cloud discounts and policies. Finding issues in the cloud, fixing them in the code. Recommendations are easy; implementation is hard. Infra updates are scattered across hundreds of repos and teams. We’re solving for decentralized action at scale, the blocker no one else touches. Timezone US timezone (ideally Eastern time) as we have have customers and team members in the US and Europe. We are fully remote. Responsibilities Be the voice of users: Infracost sits at the intersection of FinOps, Engineering, and Engineering Management—each with different goals, workflows, and technical depth. Your mission is to deeply understand their worlds: the challenges they face, the tools they use, and how they measure success. You'll spend time talking to users, listening to signals (and the silence), and turning insights into action. Metrics and customer conversations will be your compass. Shape the product, end-to-end: You won’t just define features, you’ll define outcomes. You’ll lead product di...

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