Product Cost Analyst (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO; or Seattle, WA. Applicants progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Estimated annual salary: $126,000–$174,000 for San Francisco Bay Area hires; $121,000–$166,000 for Seattle hires; $110,000–$151,000 for Colorado hires. Compensation may vary by work location.

Company

hirify.global operates a large global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications for individual users, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies.

What you will do

• Build and maintain product cost models translating compute, storage, bandwidth, and AI/inference usage into unit cost-to-serve.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance, Pricing, and Accounting to assess product launches, architecture changes, resource usage, margins, and capital investment.
• Develop shared-cost allocation analyses, distinguish direct costs, shared costs, and unused capacity, and reconcile product views with financial totals.
• Support pricing, quoting, capital planning, capacity planning, and forecasting through scenario analysis involving hardware, bandwidth, deployment timing, utilization, and workload mix.
• Produce reporting on product costs, unit economics, margin drivers, and actual-versus-plan variances.
• Improve finance data, reconciliation controls, and recurring workflows through automation and AI, and translate analysis into actionable recommendations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, cost analysis, business analytics, or a related analytical field, with experience building financial models and translating data into business recommendations.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including flexible driver-based models and sensitivity and scenario analysis.
• Ability to work with large or imperfect datasets, investigate discrepancies, reconcile financial and operational views, and document assumptions and controls.
• Understanding of financial statements, cost drivers, gross margin, unit economics, capital expenditures, and depreciation.
• Ability to learn technical business models and connect resource usage, infrastructure capacity, and product architecture to financial outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear written and verbal communication; ability to ask questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and explain analysis to different audiences.
• Evidence of ongoing AI skill development, including prompt and context engineering, and ability to evaluate emerging tools and apply them to practical finance problems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, usage-based businesses, product costing, or shared-cost allocations.
• Hands-on SQL and business intelligence experience; Python or another analytical scripting language for repeatable analysis.
• Familiarity with infrastructure or data-center operations and the financial drivers of capacity expansion, including hardware, power, cooling, deployment lead times, construction, or build-out economics.
• Experience with server or network capital planning, hardware lifecycle economics, utilization analysis, or fixed-asset reporting.
• Experience integrating AI tools into finance or analytical workflows and applying responsible AI practices, including privacy and decision-risk assessment, bias checks, source-data validation, human review, and auditability.
• Experience improving financial systems, allocation processes, data pipelines, or forecasting workflows in a matrixed organization.
• Familiarity with Anaplan, Oracle, or Workday.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented culture focused on curiosity, iteration, practical problem solving, and using AI to improve workflows.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending and commuter spending accounts; fertility and family-forming benefits.
• On-demand mental health support, employee assistance, and global travel medical insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life and accident insurance, 401(k), and employee stock participation plan.
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, plus parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs.
• Equity plan eligibility and an equal opportunity, inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available.

Hiring process

• Applicants who reach the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.