FinOps Specialist

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary
Harness is looking for a FinOps champion who is as passionate about building the next great software company as they are about assisting customers in optimizing their cloud costs and helping sales teams succeed. This person will be the domain expert that sales teams leverage to engage with customers in sales opportunities and will be critical in driving Harness's growth. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to leverage subject-matter expertise to fuel the growth of a specific product line while working closely with the cross-functional executive team.

About The Role

• Be the domain expert for FinOps focused sales opportunities and for helping enterprises succeed with their cloud cost optimization strategies
• Assist sales in account planning, discovery, pipeline acceleration and ongoing customer success
• Build & deliver FinOps workshops to accelerate opportunity velocity to help speed opportunities to close
• Help sales exceed their number and win new enterprise logos
• Develop and deliver enablement for the Harness GTM ecosystem
• Provide feedback to sales, product, and marketing teams based on learnings from the field
• Be data driven - including using Salesforce and other tools to track impact of your work
• Collaborate closely with other teams, including product management, product marketing, sales engineering, and sales development

About You

• 5+ years of FinOps experience in practitioner, technical, sales, or other relevant roles
• Solid understanding of FinOps practices, cloud cost management and the relationship between FinOps, engineering and other stakeholder groups required to successfully transform and mature a FinOps practice within an enterprise
• Ability to effectively influence C-Level, IT, and business personas
• Ability to explain complex concepts simply to a range of audiences
• Excel working in a team environment
• Proven consultative business skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent
• Willing to travel regularly (20%- 40%)

Work Location
This is a hybrid role (remote + travel + local client engagement)

Preferred Locations: London Office (2-3x a week)

What You Will Have At Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

Harness In The News

• Harness AI Tackles Software Development's Real Bottleneck
• After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
• Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags , as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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