Associate Director, Cloud FinOps Manager

Work with HelloFresh in Warsaw and its HelloTech organisation, HelloFresh’s global technology backbone with more than 1000 people, building the digital products that power our end-to-end food experience. From meal kits and ready-to-eat meals to specialty offerings like pet food and premium meat & seafood, HelloTech creates the platforms that bring tailored food solutions to millions of customers every month. Our subscription-based, direct-to-consumer model relies on technology at every step, from customer-facing apps and personalization logic to pricing, forecasting, supply chain optimization, and initiatives that help reduce food waste. While our brands operate independently to serve distinct customer needs, they are united by shared platforms, data, and operational excellence built by HelloTech. HelloTech works in autonomous, cross-functional alliances, each owning a specific product or domain end to end. By working with our Warsaw office, you will help shape scalable, data-driven products used across our markets, working with a modern tech stack and international teams to continuously improve how people discover, order, and enjoy HelloFresh’s products, today and in the future.

About the role: What's in the Box

The service provider will architect and own the financial operating model for the global cloud infrastructure. This is a business-oriented leadership mission where the external expert acts as the primary stakeholder responsible for optimizing significant technology investments. The objective is to transform cloud spend into a predictable, efficient engine for innovation, providing the financial clarity required for strategic business decisions and supporting the negotiation of high-value infrastructure contracts.

What you’ll do: The Recipe

• Cultural Transformation: Act as a subject matter expert for Cloud FinOps, driving a culture of cost ownership across the engineering organization through technical guidance, insight dashboards, and knowledge sharing.

• Governance & Visibility: Design and implement a universal resource tagging strategy and robust showback/chargeback models to ensure clear service delivery accountability.

• Optimization & Efficiency: Lead a continuous optimization program, collaborating with engineering to refactor applications for cost-efficiency and adopting advanced pricing models.

• Commercial Strategy: Develop and execute strategies for cloud vendor negotiations, aligning commitments with business objectives to mitigate financial risk.

• Forecasting & Budgeting: Build and operate data-driven forecasting models, partnering with Tech and Finance stakeholders to eliminate spending volatility and provide accurate budgetary projections.

What you’ll bring: The Ingredients

• 7+ years of dedicated experience in Cloud FinOps or Cloud Financial Management, with a proven track record of managing significant AWS spend.

• Mastery of Cloud Economics, including deep expertise in AWS cost structures (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot, and CUR).

• Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to build data-driven business cases for executive-level stakeholders.

• Technical credibility to discuss architectural trade-offs with engineers and optimize application architecture for cost.

• Proven experience in leading or participating in large-scale commercial negotiations with major cloud vendors.

• A "builder's mentality" with the ability to design FinOps processes and strategies from the ground up.

• Proficiency with scripting (e.g., Python/Bash) and experience with third-party tools (e.g., Vantage, CloudHealth) is highly advantageous.

Above all, we are looking for individuals who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What we offer: The Toppings

• Global collaboration at scale: Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloTech’s international teams, in a culture of active knowledge sharing.

• Technology with real-world impact: Build and operate modern systems at global scale, supporting 6+ millions of customers and complex supply chain operations.

• Technical/Product/Design leadership: Drive best practices and influence architecture/design, quality, and ways of working in an autonomous, product-led setup.

• End-to-end development/delivery: Drive decisions from problem definition to production, improving systems and enabling long-term scalability.

• Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point. The hub offers modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

Are you the missing ingredient? If this sounds like a tasty opportunity, we’d be excited to hear from you. We aim to review your profile and respond within 5 business days.