Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager – Platform Efficiency & COGS

​About the Role

​As a Senior Product Manager for Platform Efficiency, you will drive continual “cost to value” alignment by delivering the product features and platform enhancements that ensure durable efficiency of scale. You will sit at the intersection of Product, Engineering, FinOps, and Pricing - responsible for the architectural efficiency and gross margin health of our global SaaS analytics platform.

​Sumo Logic processes hundreds of terabytes of data daily. Your mission is to ensure that as we scale, our infrastructure costs stay lean and our platform remains a performant, competitive, and high-margin engine. You will own the strategy for optimizing data ingestion, storage, networking, and compute costs while simultaneously improving the platform’s performance and reliability.

​Key Responsibilities

• ​COGS Strategy & Roadmap: Own the end-to-end roadmap for platform efficiency. Identify, prioritize, and execute initiatives that reduce cost-to-serve without compromising customer experience or SLAs. Own product strategy to focus on customer margins across multiple Sumologic revenue products
• ​Infrastructure Optimization: Collaborate with Core Platform and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to optimize resource allocation across Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS services (S3, DynamoDB, EC2).
• ​​Cost Observability: Partner with FinOps to ensure internal "Cost Observability" dashboards inform continual efficiency improvements.  Use data to identify "hot spots" in our AWS/Cloud infrastructure and drive targeted architectural shifts.
• Product Improvement Lifecycle: Translate complex technical bottlenecks into actionable PRDs. Define "Definition of Done" for efficiency projects, focusing on metrics like Cost per GB Ingested and Cost of Query engine, CPU utilisation of engineering assemblies.
• ​Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate across Finance, UX, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver cost optimized solutions that meet the needs of customers as well as the financial goals of the business. Clearly articulate the financial impacts of technical debt and infrastructure modernization to executive stakeholders.
• ​Vendor & Cloud Management: Work with cloud providers and 3rd party vendors to optimize licensing, reserved instances, and usage-based billing models.

​What We’re Looking For

• ​Technical Depth: You have a solid understanding of cloud-native