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Our customer base is expanding, the data challenges we're solving are getting more complex, and the platform is scaling to match. As a Principal Product Manager for Agentic Systems, you'll own some of the hardest product problems at CloudZero: translating noisy financial and operational signals into trusted, explainable, and safe recommendations or actions that engineers and finance teams can act on with confidence.\nThis is real systems product work at scale, not a stakeholder management role or a roadmap shuffling job. You'll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data orchestration, automation, and human-in-the-loop decision-making, shaping how CloudZero evolves from insight delivery toward intelligent action. You'll define when a system should observe, recommend, require approval, or act autonomously, and you'll build the trust frameworks that make that spectrum safe and usable.\nThis role is ideal for a PM who thrives on deep systems thinking, prefers owning one complex problem end-to-end over managing teams, and measures career growth by problem difficulty and impact, not org size.\nWhat You'll Do\nAgentic Product Strategy & Problem Definition\nOwn the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for CloudZero's agentic and automated decision systems\n\nIdentify high-impact opportunities to translate financial signals (spend anomalies, budgets, forecasts, unit economics) and operational signals (usage, performance, configuration) into clear recommendations or automated actions\n\nDefine when systems should observe, recommend, require human approval, or act autonomously\n\nExplicitly model trust, safety, blast radius, rollback, and auditability in all designs\n\nPartner with customers, prospects, and internal experts (FinOps, Engineering, Finance) to validate where automation creates value and where it creates risk\n\nSystems Design & Execution\nLead end-to-end product development for complex, system-level workflows\n\nWrite clear, precise product requirements and specifications for signal ingestion and normalization, prioritization and decision logic, human-in-the-loop controls, and explanations, confidence signals, and guardrails\n\nPartner deeply with engineering on architectural and technical tradeoffs, balancing correctness, latency, scalability, and user trust\n\nCollaborate with experience design to ensure agentic behavior is understandable, predictable, and usable, not opaque or magical\n\nDrive iterative delivery with explicit success criteria, learning plans, and rollback strategies\n\nCustomer Trust, Validation & Enablement\nEngage directly with enterprise customers to validate where automation is welcomed, where explainability is required, and where human approval is non-negotiable\n\nSupport pre-sales and post-sales conversations around intelligent automation, including demos, roadmap discussions, and risk assessments\n\nPartner with product marketing and sales engineering to clearly articulate what the system does, what it does not do, and why users should trust it\n\nAct as the internal subject-matter expert on CloudZero's automation and agentic capabilities for both internal teams and strategic customers\n\nCross-Functional Leadership\nServe as the connective tissue between platform engineering, data engineering, design, security, and customer-facing teams\n\nCommunicate complex system behavior and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences\n\nInfluence without authority; align teams around shared outcomes, not just shipped features\n\nMentor peers and cross-functional partners through technical product decision-making\n\nWhat You Bring\n5-8+ years of experience as a Product Manager building B2B SaaS products in technically complex domains\n\nStrong product craft, including writing detailed PRDs, specs, and decision documents, and translating ambiguous problems into well-scoped, testable solutions\n\nExperience owning products involving automation, orchestration, or decision systems, such as infrastructure or DevOps tooling, data orchestration or pipeline management, observability and operational analytics, or security and remediation workflows\n\nComfort working closely with engineers on system behavior, edge cases, and failure modes\n\nExperience designing workflows where trust, correctness, and false positives matter\n\nDemonstrated ability to own a complex product area end-to-end and ship outcomes, not just capabilities\n\nBonus If You Have...\nExperience with FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud infrastructure platforms\n\nFamiliarity with AWS/GCP/Azure billing and usage data, data pipelines and orchestration frameworks, or IaC and CI/CD concepts\n\nBackground in data engineering, DevOps, SRE, or systems engineering prior to PM\n\nComfort analyzing telemetry, logs, or metrics and reasoning about system performance and tradeoffs\n\nExperience working with enterprise customers in high-stakes or regulated environments\n\nExposure to AI/ML-enabled products, especially where explainability and control are required\n\nAbout CloudZero\nCloudZero is the AI ROI Company. We built the financial control plane for AI: the system finance, IT, and engineering use to connect every AI dollar to the outcome it produced. Across every provider. In real time.\nAI spend is the fastest-growing line on enterprise P&Ls and the least understood. Only 14% of CFOs can prove AI ROI today. CloudZero answers the question no one else can: what did it cost to produce this outcome, for this customer, on this model.\nThe largest cloud spenders on the planet already run on CloudZero, including Coinbase, Duolingo, DoorDash, and Shutterstock. We processed 14 trillion billing events in the last twelve months. We're the first listed partner on Anthropic's cost and usage API. We've raised over $119 million, including a$56 million Series C backed by leading venture capital firms.\nWhy Join Our Team?\nAt CloudZero, you’ll find a collaborative, fast-moving environment where your work makes a direct impact. We’re a team that values ownership, creativity, and curiosity - and we’re tackling some of the most complex challenges in the cloud space. 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