--- title: 'Director, Brand & Corporate Communications at CloudZero' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-brand-corporate-communications-cloudzero-san-francisco-b1gre1y8v4a4' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Director, Brand & Corporate Communications at CloudZero - **Company:** CloudZero - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $172k–$220k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cloudzero/b36b7272-5e82-4186-820a-410af1917399 ## Job description ## About the Role The Director of Brand & Corporate Communications will define, amplify, and deliver CloudZero's brand strategy and communications across every audience that matters: customers, prospects, press, analysts, and our own employees. This thought leader will own the voice and reputation of the AI ROI Company as we scale from category creator to category leader, sharpening and modernizing how the market understands what we do and why it matters, and making sure that story lands with consistency everywhere it shows up. It's a builder's role. You'll set the brand, creative, and corporate comms strategy and execute it yourself, from press and analyst relationships to executive visibility to the narrative threads that connect product launches, research, and thought leadership into one coherent and captivating brand. We're looking for an exceptional, hands-on marketer who has led teams before and knows exactly what kind of team this function will need as it grows. ## Key Responsibilities Brand & Narrative Strategy - Own the CloudZero narrative as the AI ROI Company and category creator, ensuring it shows up consistently across press, product, sales, and social. - Translate category strategy into story, working closely with executive leadership to sharpen how CloudZero talks about AI outcome attribution, the financial control plane for AI, and what comes next as the category matures. - Set the creative direction for the brand, from visual identity to campaign concepts to the tone that makes CloudZero sound like no one else in the category. - Guard brand consistency across every external touchpoint, from the website to executive talk tracks to the smallest social post. Corporate Communications & Executive Visibility - Build executive presence for CloudZero's leadership team, through media opportunities, speaking engagements, byline articles, and analyst conversations. - Lead PR and analyst strategy by positioning CloudZero as the definitive voice on AI ROI, AI cost attribution, and AI unit economics. - Own major announcements including product launches, funding milestones, and flagship research, from message development through media execution. Category Creation & Thought Leadership - Fuel category-defining content, including flagship research reports, founder and executive thought leadership, and the storytelling that turns product capability into market category. - Partner cross-functionally with Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Sales to make sure category narrative shows up everywhere a prospect or customer meets CloudZero. - Stay ahead of the AI ROI conversation in the market, so CloudZero is shaping the category dialogue instead of reacting to it. AI-Native Practice - Run the function AI-first, using AI to accelerate research, drafting, message testing, media monitoring, and creative production without losing the human judgment that makes the work land. - Practice what we sell. As the brand voice of the AI ROI Company, model what modern, AI-native brand and comms work looks like, and be able to speak credibly to how CloudZero itself builds with AI. - Raise the bar on speed and output, using AI tooling to ship more, faster, at a quality level that would previously have required a larger team. ## Team & Culture - Design the function's future state, scoping the team, skills, and structure Brand & Corporate Communications will need as CloudZero scales, including where AI extends the team's reach. - Hire and lead as the company scales, building an elite, AI-fluent team capable of matching the pace of a company defining its category. ## What We're Looking For - 10+ years in brand, corporate communications, or PR, with experience in B2B SaaS, cloud, or AI. Direct category creation or category leadership experience is a strong plus. - Demonstrated fluency with AI tools in your own domain. You already use AI to research, design, write, test, and create, and you have a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't. - Strong creative instincts across both story and craft. You can shape a narrative and also judge design, campaign, and content quality, and push work until it's distinctive. - A track record of building and leading teams with the ability to motivate, inspire, and hire exceptional talent. We need someone who has done the team-building work before and knows how to do it again. - Sharp narrative instincts. You can take a complex, technical product story, like AI outcome attribution or financial control planes, and turn it into language executives, press, and customers actually repeat. - Experience building executive visibility programs: media training, speaking pipelines, byline strategy, and analyst relationships. - Comfort operating at the center of a fast-moving, still-forming category, where the playbook isn't written yet and part of the job is writing it. - A bias for action and high ownership. This is a builder's seat inside a company that moves fast and expects the same from its leaders. ## 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. 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