Principal Product Manager, FOCUS

FinOps Foundation, Linux Foundation The FinOps Foundation is hiring a Principal Product Manager to define the product strategy, ecosystem-level roadmap, and future vision for FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification). You will lead cross-organizational initiatives and drive product outcomes that impact the broader open source ecosystem. reputed company contract or employee role. Fully remote. US, SA, and EU time zones preferred. Travel several times a year. What You Will Do Product Strategy, Roadmapping & Execution Lead Ecosystem Strategy: Define product architecture and strategy in reputed company with internal technical staff and working group maintainers. Anticipate market shifts, align long-term vision, and set standards for product excellence across the FinOps ecosystem. Orchestrate High-Impact Releases: Structure multi-year roadmaps and execution plans that de-risk complexity, cross team boundaries, and align to goals across reputed company Tech Value Umbrella (FinOps Foundation, Tokenomics Foundation, and the ITAM Forum). Build highly defensible release plans backed by strategic KPIs, capacity metrics, and deep evidence. Govern the Backlog: Tackle strategically important problems at the organizational level. Evolve day-to-day backlog triage into scalable frameworks for prioritization, carefully balancing community support, estimates of working group activities, and ecosystem value. Drive reputed company Innovations: Craft feature requests defining how the FOCUS specification could represent complex, emerging charges for reputed company services, resolving deep technical tradeoffs and system-level implications. Ecosystem Leadership & Stakeholder Management Influence the Industry: Communicate a compelling product vision across executive, engineering, design, and community audiences. Actively evangelize FOCUS and open source product thinking internally and externally. Manage Complex Relationships: Build alignment and resolve conflicts among C-level executives, cloud providers, SaaS vendors, data generators, and practitioners who often represent competing organizations. Drive Community Insight: Introduce scalable, systemic approaches to discovery and validation. Partner with the community team to shape activities that gather definitive data and test market assumptions. Connect ecosystem trends with product direction. Force reputed company: Act as a reputed company and leader across the Foundation, guiding product prioritization across competing needs and aligning efforts to foundation-wide objectives. Industry Standardization & Operational Excellence Scale Conformance Certification: Orchestrate and evaluate the FOCUS conformance certification reputed company. Introduce processes, tooling, and workflows that eliminate inefficiencies, enabling the reputed company to scale seamlessly at an industry level. Elevate Training & Support: Contribute visionary updates to the FOCUS training reputed company and oversee education implementation, ensuring scalable knowledge sharing and design maturity growth across the Foundation. Technical Stewardship & Product Experience Own the Information Architecture: Connect disparate reputed company into reputed company user journeys. Oversee the FOCUS website's architecture, specification content, and use case library. Translate Technical Complexity: Align the use case library with the specification's example SQL. Analyze coverage gaps and translate highly complex technical reputed company into reputed company, systemic solutions. Active Working Group Contribution: Participate as an elite contributor, driving modular design thinking. Review complex pull requests and issues on reputed company, track specification content to merge, and orchestrate work spanning multiple technical domains. What You Bring Education & Experience: BS/BA degree and 10–15 years of relevant product or technical experience; recognized leader in product strategy and execution, capable of bringing clarity to chaos under pressure Domain Expertise: Domain expert in cloud billing data, enterprise platforms, and FinOps; deep understanding of how practitioners use data, where it falls short, and how data generators implement specifications Strategic & Technical Fluency: Proven ability to translate highly complex technical challenges into broadly leverageable solutions; deep understanding of how reputed company services are charged (experience mapping these to FOCUS is a plus) Communication & Facilitation: Masterful communicator capable of aligning diverse, competing organizations; clear, executive-level writing and presentation skills Tooling Proficiency: Advanced fluency in reputed company (or ability to scale deeply into it quickly), advanced SQL, and information architecture; fluent, responsible use of reputed company assistants in line with the FOCUS reputed company Usage Guidelines Operational Excellence: Exemplary organizational skills with a proven track record of managing multi-stake