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 world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 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 

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a FinOps Analyst to join our Cloud Infrastructure team as part of the wider Engineering Platform team. The person in this role will work directly with the biggest Grammarly vendors, identify and visualize cost drivers, discover cost optimization options, 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 demonstrating cloud financial information.
• Analyze spend across multiple cloud vendors, identifying areas for optimization and efficiency gains.
• Closely partner with Engineering 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 and ensure compliance with modern financial standards.
• Identify ways to streamline the report-building, forecasting, and alerting processes while improving visibility.
• Develop solutions and frameworks to facilitate cost-effective testing, deployment, and monitoring of services.
• 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

• Loves working with cost data and cloud cost optimization, learns constantly, and can’t wait to share insights about the latest cool tools they’ve tried.
• Has at least 3 years of experience managing 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 utilize BI tools effectively to build comprehensive reports, analyze cost data and present to decision-makers
• Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team.
• Can understand a problem, see the holistic picture, and break it down into single and manageable components.
• 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. 

Zone 1: $170,000 - $220,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. 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).