Head of FinOps & Platform Economics

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Creative Fabrica</strong></p> <p>Creative Fabrica is a subscription platform serving millions of creators, designers, and crafters worldwide. We're built on the principle that everyone can be creative. We remove what stands in the way: expensive software, technical expertise, and time-consuming production.</p> <p>Our Studio AI suite offers more than 26 specialized AI tools that automate technical work: generate custom images, remove backgrounds, create fonts, and produce publication-ready designs in minutes instead of hours.</p> <p>Our content library contains 15+ million commercially-licensed fonts, graphics, SVGs, and templates, giving you professional-quality building blocks without the expense or time of creating assets from scratch.</p></div><h3><strong>About the role:</strong></h3> <p>Creative Fabrica is building Studio, a next-generation creative platform powered by AI, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and external technology vendors. As Studio scales, infrastructure economics, vendor strategy, and platform monetization become critical.</p> <p>We are looking for a highly analytical and commercially strong operator to own the financial and strategic layer behind our platform infrastructure.</p> <p>You will be responsible for managing cloud and vendor spend, optimizing infrastructure economics, tracking commitments and renewals, driving cost-saving initiatives, supporting API pricing strategy, and ensuring we operate Studio efficiently at scale.</p> <p>This role sits at the intersection of:</p> <ul> <li>Finance</li> <li>Infrastructure</li> <li>Product</li> <li>Engineering</li> <li>Commercial Strategy</li> </ul> <p>You will work directly with leadership and have a measurable impact on margins, scalability, and platform profitability.</p> <h3><strong>What you will do:&nbsp;</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Vendor &amp; Contract Management</strong> <ul> <li>Own strategic vendor relationships across cloud, infrastructure, AI, SaaS, and technology partners.</li> <li>Maintain a centralized contract and vendor repository.</li> <li>Track commitments, pricing agreements, amendments, and renewal timelines.</li> <li>Identify renegotiation opportunities and commercial improvements.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>FinOps &amp; Infrastructure Economics</strong> <ul> <li>Own AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and related infrastructure spend.</li> <li>Monitor usage, cost trends, commitments, and infrastructure efficiency.</li> <li>Build reporting and forecasting together with Finance.</li> <li>Identify and drive infrastructure savings initiatives.</li> <li>Introduce cost governance, budget visibility, and usage accountability across teams.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Platform Economics &amp; Pricing</strong> <ul> <li>Support pricing strategy for Studio APIs and platform services.</li> <li>Analyze margins, infrastructure costs, and profitability across products.</li> <li>Benchmark competitor pricing models and identify optimization opportunities.</li> <li>Evaluate resale opportunities for third-party APIs and infrastructure services.</li> <li>Support monetization and commercial packaging decisions.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Commercial Optimization</strong> <ul> <li>Analyze vendor performance, pricing structures, and market alternatives.</li> <li>Support buy-vs-build and vendor selection decisions.</li> <li>Continuously optimize platform economics and operational efficiency.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Compliance &amp; Reporting</strong> <ul> <li>Own WBSO tracking and reporting in collaboration with Finance and Engineering.</li> <li>Ensure accurate financial and operational documentation.</li> <li>Track and request additional subsidy opportunities.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>What you will need:&nbsp;</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5+ years experience in FinOps, strategic sourcing, procurement, infrastructure finance, cloud economics, or related fields.</li> <li>Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure pricing models (AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud).</li> <li>Experience managing large vendor contracts and commercial negotiations.</li> <li>Strong financial and analytical skills.</li> <li>Advanced spreadsheet and modeling capabilities.</li> <li>Experience building reporting around spend, forecasting, commitments, and profitability.</li> <li>Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, Product, and Engineering teams.</li> <li>SQL skills for analyzing infrastructure, API, usage, and financial data.</li> <li>Strong understanding of SaaS/API pricing models and consumption-based businesses.</li> <li>Ability to independently drive optimization and cost-saving initiatives.</li> <li>Highly analytical and detail-oriented.</li> <li>Commercially aggressive and negotiation-driven.</li> <li>Structured and organized.</li> <li>Strong ownership mentality.</li> <li>Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments.</li> <li>Able to simplify complex infrastructure and pricing decisions into actionable business insights.</li> <li>Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.</li> <li>Pragmatic and execution-focused.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Nice to have:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience with AI infrastructure, LLM pricing, token economics, or GPU workloads.</li> <li>Experience in high-scale API businesses.</li> <li>Experience with infrastructure cost allocation and internal chargeback models.</li> <li>Experience with Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Kubernetes optimization, or GPU utilization optimization.</li> <li>Experience with WBSO administration and reporting.Background in consulting, investment analysis, infrastructure operations, or strategic finance.</li> <li>Experience benchmarking competitors and deconstructing pricing models</li> </ul> <h3><strong>We would also like to offer you:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Lunch:&nbsp;</strong>On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.</li> <li>Up to 15 days&nbsp;<strong>Work From Anywhere Benefit.</strong></li> <li><strong>24&nbsp;</strong>days of paid vacation per year + public holidays.</li> <li><strong>Travel Allowance</strong>, if you live more than 10 KM from the office (in the form of an NS card)</li> <li>Company<strong>&nbsp;pension plan</strong>.</li> <li>Company&nbsp;<strong>events</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>overseas trips</strong>!</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="job-blocks"> <div id="block-13" class="text block"> <div class="body" data-columns="1"> <h3 class="article"><strong>Is this you?</strong></h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="job-blocks"> <div id="block-15" class="vacancy-text block"> <div class="body" data-columns="1"> <div class="article" data-medium-editor-element=""> <p>Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.</p> <p>You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.</p> <p>Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div></div>