FinOps Analyst

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a FinOps Analyst to join our Infrastructure team. This role will work directly with the largest Grammarly vendors, identify and visualize cost drivers, discover cost optimization opportunities, and forecast and analyze our cloud spending. They will drive our financial accountability culture and enable our Product, Engineering, IT, Finance, and Executive teams to scale Grammarly while making data-driven spending decisions.

As a FinOps Analyst, you will be at the forefront of building and optimizing a framework that empowers our engineering teams to manage cloud costs effectively and provides stakeholders with the information to make value-driven decisions. You will create an abstraction over complex, flexible, and user-friendly infrastructure, balancing cost-efficiency with performance and security while making numerous critical decisions.

In this role, you will:

• Enable better decision-making by promoting and increasing visibility of cloud financial information.
• Analyze spend across multiple cloud vendors, identifying areas for optimization and efficiency gains.
• Closely partner with Infrastructure and Finance teams to understand cloud business processes and cost drivers.
• Create reports, dashboards, and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations.
• Maintain, distribute, and improve company-wide cloud cost reporting.
• Continuously improve cloud cost management and reporting strategies according to feedback and industry trends.
• Identify ways to streamline the report-building, forecasting, and alerting processes while improving visibility.
• Develop solutions and frameworks to facilitate cost-effective service testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Proactively monitor cloud consumption to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Assist with contract negotiations by modeling usage, cost, and discounts for multiple scenarios.

Qualifications

• Has at least 3 years of experience managing cloud costs, preferably in a highly scaled multi-cloud environment.
• Is knowledgeable of AWS, or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP, and is willing to learn AWS quickly.
• Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team.
• Is comfortable in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment.
• Loves working with cost data, uncovering optimization opportunities, and solving ambiguous problems.
• Can use BI tools effectively to build comprehensive reports, analyze cost data, and present to decision-makers.
• Is comfortable presenting to executives or large groups.
• Can understand a problem, see the holistic picture, and break it down into single and manageable components.
• Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

United States: 

Zone 1: $142,000 – $180,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).