FinOps Engineer managing technology spending and optimization strategies at Archer's aerospace company. Collaborating with teams to drive cost - conscious decision - making across departments.
About the role
- Portfolio Operations Lead managing operational processes for product development at VIAVI Solutions. Focused on standardizing and scaling team processes across multiple departments for improved efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Drives operational discipline and best in class practices from the OT team and applies them to the HSE team
- Covers portfolio governance, sales interaction workflows, customer request intake, demand planning, prioritization, and execution tracking
- Operates horizontally across teams rather than owning a single product line
- Focused on process, rigor, and outcomes—not people management
- Revenue, Bookings & Funnel management for the businesses towards meeting AOP
- Own AOP planning; maintain weekly funnel analysis and insight generation; apply OT standards and principles to HSE
- Drive standardized format and cadence for OT & HSE SWAT calls; calls owned and driven by owners in OT and HSE
- Drive standardized format and pipeline tracking for OT & HSE on weekly revenue calls ; calls owned and driven by owners in OT and HSE
- Drive OT processes to HSE so there is a consistent interface model between Sales and Product across both teams
- Drive OT processes to HSE to ensure all sales and customer requests are captured in a standardized format, tagged with demand signals, and have clear ownership and disposition; product roadmaps and customer requests/delivery to owned by OT and HSE leaders
- Define clear expectations and SLAs for request intake, evaluation, prioritization, and response
- Eliminate ad-hoc, off-system requests and unmanaged commitments
- Apply OT processes to HSE to establish a formal demand planning framework integrating sales pipeline data, strategic account needs, customer escalations and renewals, and market/partner-driven demand signals
- Translate inbound demand into structured forecasts and capacity and prioritization inputs
- Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership to align demand forecasts with delivery capacity and commitments with execution reality
- Drive OT processes to HSE to establish a single source of truth for OT and HSE portfolio priorities, roadmaps, and in-flight initiatives; roadmap planning , execution and delivery owned by OT and HSE leaders
- Ensure roadmap decisions are informed by market and customer input/demand and business impact, balancing short-term revenue needs with long-term strategy
- Drive quarterly and monthly planning cadences that incorporate forward-looking demand signals
- Convert approved initiatives into clearly defined deliverables, owners, timelines, and success criteria
- Track delivery against set initiatives
- Ensure consistent demand planning discipline for the OT and HSE teams; Demand planning owned by OT and HSE leaders
- Align teams on prioritization using demand data as a common language
- Coach teams through the shift from reactive intake to planned, forecast-driven execution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in product operations, portfolio management, or comparable process-driven roles
- Strong expertise in product, portfolio, or program operations within a hardware, networking, or test & measurement environment
- Deep understanding of demand planning, sales forecasting, and funnel management processes —including CRM pipeline interpretation and reconciliation to capacity planning
- Experience driving operational governance frameworks , including intake, prioritization, and cross-functional decision forums
- Demonstrated ability to standardize and scale processes across multiple teams with varying maturity levels
- Experience working with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Operations organizations in a matrixed B2B environment
- High proficiency with data-driven decision-making using tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent
- Ability to translate qualitative demand signals (accounts, strategic initiatives, escalations) into quantitative forecasts
- Familiarity with CRM (Salesforce), PLM, or portfolio management systems strongly preferred
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority , driving alignment among senior cross-functional leaders
- Strong executive‑ready communication skills—clear, concise, and able to simplify complex operational topics for decision-making
- Track record of driving cross-organizational accountability through process rigor and visible metrics
- Ability to coach teams transitioning from reactive to forecast-driven operating models
- Exceptional organizational discipline and operational rigor
- Ability to maintain a “single source of truth” mindset and enforce adherence across teams
- Strong problem‑solving skills with a bias toward structured frameworks
- Comfort working in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments while still enforcing process discipline
- Prior experience integrating or operationalizing processes across merged or reorganizing teams (preferred)
- Familiarity with AOP planning , revenue operations, or financial modeling (preferred)
- Certification or formal training in portfolio management, operations management, or process improvement (e.g., PMP, Lean, Six Sigma) (preferred)
- Experience supporting global product teams and international sales organizations (preferred).
Benefits
- paid time off
- health, life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- bonus program
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