Senior Product Manager - FinOps

About the role

REA Group is hiring a Senior Product Manager - FinOps for its Launchpad team, which creates and manages products that help REA's technology teams work more effectively. The role owns the FinOps product capability and support processes, covering products, insights, controls and ways of working that help REA make informed decisions about cloud and technology spend. It is a contract position until May 2027, open to onsite work in Melbourne or Sydney or remote work elsewhere.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the FinOps product vision, strategy, roadmap, prioritisation and backlog in line with REA's technology and financial goals
• Lead discovery with engineering, product, finance, procurement and business stakeholders
• Deliver and improve FinOps capabilities such as FinOut dashboards, cost insights in Realm and budget-limit alerting
• Define product outcomes, measures and adoption approaches, using data and feedback to improve value and experience
• Make cloud cost information clear, trusted and actionable for engineers, product teams and finance leaders
• Provide guidance on cloud cost management, optimisation and responsible resource usage
• Partner with Finance on cloud spend reporting, including AI, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Identify and track cloud savings opportunities such as usage optimisation, rightsizing and commitment management
• Establish governance, standards and guardrails for cost allocation, tagging, budgets, alerts and resource lifecycle management
• Embed cost considerations into planning, architecture and delivery, and retain oversight of software and SaaS optimisation
• Build relationships with cloud providers and FinOps tooling vendors

Required profile

• An experienced product manager able to own an internal technology product from discovery through to delivery, adoption and continuous improvement
• A pragmatic FinOps practitioner comfortable moving between detailed cloud cost data and the strategic decisions it informs
• Strong commercial, analytical and financial acumen
• Collaborative partner who works with engineers, architects, finance professionals, procurement specialists, executives and vendors
• Confident communicator and influencer who can shape a new capability and operate with ambiguity

What we offer

• Hybrid and flexible working approach
• Flexible leave options, including birthday leave and additional leave
• Flexible parental leave for primary and secondary carers
• Volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and a community café that donates 100% of its revenue to charity
• Hackdays