• Provides strategic and operational leadership for Upstream’s Development and External Affairs department • Ensures the systems, planning processes, and team coordination to achieve revenue goals • Leads the operating strategy for the Development & External Affairs team • Integrates donor engagement strategy with organization strategy • Oversees team systems and operations • Tracks progress toward goals and recommends adjustments • Leads fundraising activities and donor communications • Oversees operational prioritization and donor engagement strategies • Develops annual operating plan goals and KPIs for the team • Oversees training for transformational fundraising capabilities

• Drive high-priority initiatives across the business. • Work with leadership to solve business and product challenges. • Build new teams, processes, and capabilities as the company grows. • Lead cross-functional projects from planning through execution. • Research new markets, products, and business opportunities. • Improve how we operate by identifying problems and implementing practical solutions. • Take ownership of projects and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

• You will work closely with core teams on the highest impact initiatives across engineering, product, hiring, operations, and business development. • Help solve new challenges, build new capabilities, and drive execution wherever it matters most. • Participate in hands-on work alongside the teams as they execute on their responsibilities.

• As part of the R&D Cloud Operations team, you will actively shape FinOps at Proalpha and develop the foundation for economically sustainable cloud usage. • You will build FinOps practices within the cloud teams, continuously evolve them and take responsibility for their operational implementation in day-to-day business. • You will analyze the cost structures of different data centers and cloud providers, evaluate architectural decisions for their financial impact and derive concrete measures for sustainable cost optimization. • In close coordination with colleagues from Cloud Platform, Controlling and Product teams, you will create transparency around consumption, budgets and savings potential and support well-founded decision-making. • You will develop standards, guidelines and decision-making frameworks and establish FinOps governance structures such as tagging strategies, cost-center logic, forecasts, KPIs as well as showback and chargeback models. • Through meaningful reports and dashboards and targeted coaching, you will enable teams to apply FinOps principles independently and to take sustainable ownership of costs.