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>
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<li>Finance</li>
<li>Infrastructure</li>
<li>Product</li>
<li>Engineering</li>
<li>Commercial Strategy</li>
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<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: </strong></h3>
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<li><strong>Vendor &amp; Contract Management</strong>
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<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>
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<li><strong>FinOps &amp; Infrastructure Economics</strong>
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<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>
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<li><strong>Platform Economics &amp; Pricing</strong>
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<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>
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<li><strong>Commercial Optimization</strong>
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<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>
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<li><strong>Compliance &amp; Reporting</strong>
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<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>
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<h3><strong>What you will need: </strong></h3>
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<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>
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<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>
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<li><strong>Lunch: </strong>On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.</li>
<li>Up to 15 days <strong>Work From Anywhere Benefit.</strong></li>
<li><strong>24 </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> pension plan</strong>.</li>
<li>Company <strong>events</strong> and <strong>overseas trips</strong>!</li>
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<p>Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</p>
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