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title: 'AI ROI Consultant at CloudZero'
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# AI ROI Consultant at CloudZero

- **Company:** CloudZero
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cloudzero/e2b11ca9-9fb6-4b38-887e-08beb586c434

## Job description

## The Role

CloudZero is building a new practice: AI ROI Services. It's a repeatable engagement that installs measurement scaffolding for a customer's AI spend, then produces a calculation that survives a CFO's questions. We're writing the first two chapters of that playbook on ourselves, with our own Customer Success team as customer zero. The AI ROI Consultant owns the business case and the methodology, engagement by engagement. You'll take attribution data (who spent what, on what, and what it produced) and turn it into a number finance teams trust: a ratio, a payback period, and a story that holds up. This is a build-it-as-you-go role. The methodology exists in draft form today; you'll be the one who pressure-tests it against real customers and makes it repeatable.

## What You'll Do

- Own the business case and ROI methodology for each engagement, start to finish.
- Turn the Activity-to-Return catalog into a defensible calculation: dollarized operational value over AI investment, expressed as a ratio and a payback period.
- Separate operational returns (time and capacity freed, easy to claim) from strategic returns (retention, ARR per TAM, harder to attribute), and apply the right rigor to each.
- Pre-register what counts as success before an engagement starts, and name the confounders up front, not after the fact.
- Partner with the data analyst joining spend, activity, and outcome data, and with Operations on the plumbing behind the numbers.
- Work with the FDE team so integrations capture what the methodology actually needs.
- Present the calculation in a form that holds up in a CFO conversation, with thought leadership and advisory as the captivating thread.
- Help productize what's repeatable, so each new engagement gets faster.

Who You'll Work With

- Reports to the SVP of Customer Success.
- Partners daily with CS Operations, TAMs, Product, and the FDE team.
- Works directly with customer stakeholders in finance, operations, and executive sponsorship to defend the ROI number.

## What You'll Bring

- 7+ years at a top-tier strategy or management consulting firm (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, or equivalent), or comparable in-house strategy experience, at a Staff or Principal level. You've personally owned the business case and defended the number to a skeptical executive, not supported someone else who did.
- A track record of building the business case for B2B SaaS software environments: structuring an ambiguous problem into a hypothesis, testing it, and defending the answer to a skeptical executive.
- Sharp quantitative and financial modeling skills: ROI and payback math, cohort analysis, sensitivity testing, and naming confounders before someone else does.
- Executive presence. You can walk a CFO through a number, take the hard question, and not flinch.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or another advanced quantitative degree is a strong plus.
- Comfort operating with minimal structure. This practice is being built in real time, and the playbook isn't fully written yet.
- Fluent in AI-native workflows: you use tools like Claude day to day to structure analysis, manage a fast-moving workstream, and turn ambiguous inputs into a clean deliverable; leading by example on AI expertise translating to business ROI.
- Experience advising customers or internal stakeholders through AI adoption: translating what the technology can do into what it's worth, in language a non-technical exec or finance partner trusts.
- Comfortable defining and refining a taxonomy (event types, activity classifiers, cohort logic) as the underlying tooling and data model mature, rather than waiting for a finished spec.
- Experience with software spend analysis, SaaS metrics, or customer success data; AI spend analysis a bonus.

## About CloudZero

CloudZero 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. AI 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. The 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](https://www.cloudzero.com/press-releases/20250528/) backed by leading venture capital firms. Why Join Our Team? At 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. If you’re excited by working with cutting-edge technology, driving meaningful outcomes, and growing with a company that’s scaling fast, we’d love to hear from you!

## About CloudZero

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CloudZero is the AI ROI Company that provides a financial control plane for cloud and AI spend, helping businesses connect every dollar spent to measurable business outcomes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Erik Peterson (co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: FinOps / Cloud Cost Management / AI Spend Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Engineering leaders like CTOs, VPs of Engineering; Finance leaders like CFOs, FP&A; Platform and cloud ops teams)
- **Mission / Purpose**: To help the world's most ambitious businesses turn cloud and AI spend into measurable value. The company's vision is to be the only platform to quantify and maximize the ROI of every cloud and AI dollar spent.

## Products & Services
- **CloudZero Platform**: A SaaS platform that unifies cost and usage data from any AI platform, cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure), and SaaS tool (Snowflake, Datadog, MongoDB, Kubernetes) into a single pane of glass. It provides multi-dimensional allocation, real-time anomaly detection, and AI outcome attribution.
- **CostFormation**: A code-driven approach for allocating costs, allowing platform and cloud ops teams to author allocation structure so finance and engineering see the same numbers.
- **AI Hub**: Connects AI spend to specific models, providers, prompt patterns, and coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to show cost context where engineers work.
- **Analytics (BI capability)**: A business intelligence feature released in 2023 to improve business efficiency.
- **AnyCost**: An API launched in 2019 to combine cost data from any cloud provider.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over $14 billion in cloud spend under management. The company raised $32 million in Series B funding.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully disclosed, but notable milestones include joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, the FinOps Foundation Governing Board, and achieving SOC 1 Type 2 certification. Phil Pergola (former CloudHealth executive) joined as CEO.
- **Growth Signals**: Named a "Strong Performer" in the Forrester CCMO Wave, a "Visionary" in the Gartner MQ for CFM Tools, and "Best Places to Work" by Boston Business Journal. The platform is certified by the FinOps Foundation. Average time to pay for itself is 3 months, with average cloud savings of 22% in year one and a 33% average Cloud Efficiency Rate improvement.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Depth of Allocation**: The only engine that allocates AI, cloud, and Kubernetes cost at the depth of customer, feature, workflow, and model, fueling unit economics.
- **Real-time Data**: Streaming telemetry captures every AI call as it happens, with anomaly signals in seconds and full dimensional allocation in hours.
- **Outcome Attribution**: Maps AI spend to business outcomes (customer, product, transaction, P&L), not just activity metrics.
- **No Monthly Overages**: Uses a tiered, predictable pricing model that doesn't vary month to month.
- **Speed to Value**: Can connect in minutes and uncover unit cost metrics in hours.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI ROI Leadership**: Positioning itself as the "AI ROI Company," the strategic focus is on helping companies govern AI spend and value as AI adoption explodes.
- **Category Creation**: Moving from category-creator to category-leader in the AI financial control plane space.
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to integrate with more AI platforms, coding agents, and business systems to unify the cost conversation across engineering and finance.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Environment**: The company is remote-first, with a hub in Boston.
- **Culture & Values**: Core values include "Commit then iterate," "Own the outcome," "We, not I," "Delight the customer," "Nothing is sacred," "Less is more," and "Wait for no one."
- **Benefits**: Flexible Time Off, Home Office Stipend, "CZ Wellness" program, Recognition Program, Commuter Stipend, Catered Lunches, Focus Fridays, AI Build Days, and a Holiday Schedule.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasizes high-bar, low-ego talent, and a passion for all things cloud. The company is described as a "tight-knit team in a high-growth, fast-moving environment."
- **Growth Trajectory**: Job seekers are drawn to the opportunity to work at a high-growth startup that is defining a new category in AI spend intelligence.

## Sources
1. [CloudZero.com](https://www.cloudzero.com/)
2. [CloudZero About Page](https://www.cloudzero.com/about/)
3. [CloudZero Careers Page](https://www.cloudzero.com/careers/)
4. [CloudZero Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cloudzero)
5. [Built In Boston - CloudZero](https://builtin.com/company/cloudzero/faq/workplace-perception)

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