Head of FinOps & Cloud Billing

IREN • San Francisco, CA

12d • $250,000 - $290,000

About The Position

The Head of FinOps & Cloud Billing bridges operations and finance for IREN's AI Cloud. The role owns the end-to-end path from usage telemetry through rating to invoice and audit; owns cost allocation, unit economics and gross margin per GPU-hour; and runs the compliance program for cloud operations. It is a build role: the leader defines the function, hires the team, stands up the tooling and controls, and embeds cost and billing accuracy as operational metrics reviewed alongside availability.

Requirements

• 10+ years across cloud operations, FinOps, cloud billing or infrastructure finance, including 3+ years leading a team; experience building a function from scratch.
• Hands-on ownership of a usage-based billing or metering pipeline at a cloud, hosting, colocation or SaaS provider — telemetry ingestion, rating, invoicing and reconciliation.
• Demonstrated FinOps practice: cost allocation, showback/chargeback, unit-economics modelling and forecast-versus-actual reporting for large infrastructure fleets.
• Direct experience taking an organization through SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 — control design, evidence, auditor management.
• Comfortable working with engineers and data: SQL and data-pipeline literacy, ability to specify metering requirements and challenge implementations.
• Executive-level communication; able to present margin and compliance posture to a CTO, CFO and enterprise customers.

Nice To Haves

• GPU / HPC / AI-infrastructure economics: power-driven cost structures, GPU generation lifecycle, utilization and commitment models.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or equivalent; familiarity with the FOCUS billing-data specification.
• Experience in a company transitioning business models or scaling rapidly, where controls were built while the business was live.
• Exposure to FedRAMP or other regulated-market frameworks; experience with revenue-recognition considerations for usage-based contracts.

Responsibilities

• Own the usage-metering-to-invoice pipeline: reconcile telemetry, rating and invoicing; define and run the billing-accuracy audit; eliminate revenue leakage.
• Partner with the control-plane software organization and the Sr. Director of Cloud on metering requirements for new products, SKUs and GPU generations.
• Establish billing dispute handling with Cloud Support and Finance, including root-cause and remediation of systemic errors.
• Partner with SOX compliance, both internally and with customers, on SOX billing compliance and reporting to ensure a seamless stream of revenue integrity pipeline.
• Build cost allocation and showback/chargeback for the AI Cloud: cost per GPU-hour by site, cluster, GPU generation and customer.
• Own forecast-versus-actual reporting for cloud operating cost and utilization; provide the cost lens on capacity and fleet-lifecycle decisions with the Capacity & Fleet Planner.
• Drive gross-margin improvement programs — utilization, power, idle capacity, commitment structures — and report progress to the VP and CTO.
• Run the SOC 2 (Type I then Type II) and ISO 27001 programs for cloud operations; own control design, evidence collection and auditor management for the operational controls in scope.
• Maintain a live view of certification status for the CISO and Sales; ensure certification gaps never surprise an enterprise deal.
• Hire and lead the FinOps & Cloud Billing team (2 FinOps Analysts, 2 Billing & Metering Engineers, 1 Cloud Compliance Lead); set the team's roadmap and operating cadence.
• Represent cost, billing and compliance in the Cloud Operations leadership team alongside the Sr. Directors of SRE and Cloud, the Director of Cloud Support and the AD, Service Management.
• Be the primary Cloud Operations interface to Finance (revenue accounting, SOX, FP&A), Sales Operations (pricing and contracts) and Security (CISO).

Benefits

• Base salary
• Annual performance incentives
• Equity programs
• 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees
• 75% company paid coverage for dependents
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Access to financial planning and legal services
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Internal skills training and advancement pathways
• Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training
• Company events and team-building activities
• Relocation or Living-out-allowance / per diem

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed