Principal AI FinOps & Tokenomics (Consumption Intelligence, Cost Governance & Value Realization)

Responsibilities

• Define requirements for AI financial telemetry (tokens, GPU, inference, requests, seats) to ensure accurate, reconcilable usage tracking.
• Partner with AI Operations to maintain high-fidelity consumption data aligned to financial outcomes.
• Own and evolve enterprise unit economics models, translating usage into clear financial narratives.
• Define role-based allocation policies, mapping personas, workloads, and value tiers to model access, token budgets, and entitlements.
• Develop comparative cost models across vendors, models, and deployment patterns to identify optimization opportunities.
• Establish target state requirements for cost efficiency and allocation logic.
• Standardize vendor pricing constructs, metering, and SKUs into a unified financial abstraction layer.
• Act as financial lead in vendor negotiations, partnering with Procurement on pricing, reserved capacity, and transparency clauses.
• Ensure external agreements align with internal credit and consumption models.
• Co-own enterprise AI value realization frameworks and benefits taxonomy.
• Define consistent measurement approaches across use cases.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to convert value signals into recognized financial outcomes.
• Own the enterprise AI credit ledger as the system of record for AI consumption.
• Establish governance for credit issuance, replenishment, and overage handling.
• Ensure alignment with corporate finance standards for showback/chargeback.
• Lead enterprise AI cost and value reporting for executive audiences (CIO, CFO, CISO, BU GMs).
• Deliver insights for operating reviews, steering committees, and board-level discussions.
• Partner with BU Finance to develop AI budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Guide investment prioritization through value-based decision frameworks.
• Build financial accountability across business divisions.
• Serve as the primary leader for AI financial governance across Finance, TBMO, Procurement, AI Operations, and BUs.
• Lead AI Cost & Value Management forums to ensure decisions are data-driven, transparent, and traceable.
• Drive enterprise maturity in FinOps for AI.

  Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Accounting, or related field.
  • 8+ years in FinOps, FP&A, IT Finance, cost management, or business analytics, including 3+ years at senior/principal level.
  • Proven ownership of consumption-based cost models at enterprise scale.
  • Experience building and presenting value models, arguments, and benefit realization to executive audiences.
  • Strong expertise in unit economics, cost modeling, vendor normalization, forecasting, and benefits attribution.
  • Solid understanding of AI/LLM consumption constructs sufficient to define governance frameworks.
  • Experience partnering with Procurement on vendor agreements.
  • Familiarity with FinOps Foundation principles, FOCUS, and TBM taxonomy.
  • Strong executive communication and cross-functional influencing skills.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Accounting, or related field.
  • 8+ years in FinOps, FP&A, IT Finance, cost management, or business analytics, including 3+ years at senior/principal level.
  • Proven ownership of consumption-based cost models at enterprise scale.
  • Experience building and presenting value models, arguments, and benefit realization to executive audiences.
  • Strong expertise in unit economics, cost modeling, vendor normalization, forecasting, and benefits attribution.
  • Solid understanding of AI/LLM consumption constructs sufficient to define governance frameworks.
  • Experience partnering with Procurement on vendor agreements.
  • Familiarity with FinOps Foundation principles, FOCUS, and TBM taxonomy.
  • Strong executive communication and cross-functional influencing skills.

  Skills

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner, with FinOps for AI specialization.
  • Experience building FinOps, Cloud Economics, or AI cost/value governance functions from the ground up.
  • Experience managing AI cost governance in high-scale, high-volume environments.
  • Expertise in crafting internal pricing models (e.g., credit systems, token-bank frameworks) for shared services.
  • Experience negotiating commercial terms with hyperscalers or AI-native vendors.
  • Proven ownership of enterprise value realization programs (e.g., developer efficiency, agentic automation, knowledge worker AI).

  Benefits

  Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.