Director of Corporate FP&A

Overview

This role owns integrated company financial planning and leads financial partnership across Go-To-Market (GTM) and Research & Development (R&D). You will identify consequential business problems, develop clear recommendations, and collaborate with executives to drive action. The position includes building the Finance team, standards, and systems to help Finance deliver with greater speed and rigor.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop an FP&A and Strategic Finance team
  • Set clear priorities, hire excellent people, coach emerging leaders, and establish high standards for the function
• Own the integrated financial plan
  • Lead long-range and annual planning
  • Create driver-based forecasts
  • Forecast headcount, revenue, operating investments, and cash
  • Clearly explain implications of different decisions
• Lead performance management
  • Use forecasts, monthly business reviews, and budget-owner conversations
  • Identify changes early and distinguish signal from noise
  • Turn analysis into decisions with accountable owners
• Partner with GTM and R&D leaders
  • Support pricing, unit economics, growth, infrastructure, and investment tradeoffs
  • Apply a whole-company perspective to cross-functional decisions
• Lead executive and Board financial reporting
  • Support fundraising efforts through projections, scenarios, diligence, and consistent narrative materials
• Improve Finance planning systems and workflows
  • Improve processes including Pigment
  • Use AI to accelerate reliable analytical work and build repeatable improvements into how the team operates

Requirements

• Experience independently owning company-wide FP&A and Strategic Finance in a growing technology business
  • Must include both corporate planning depth and meaningful business partnership
  • Evaluation is based on the complexity owned and outcomes delivered, not title or fixed tenure
• Proven ability to identify important business problems before being asked
  • Form a defensible point of view and influence executives to act
• Demonstrated record of hiring, developing, and leading a strong team
  • Includes creating leverage from a lean starting point
• Strong financial craft
  • Driver-based forecasting
  • Integrated financial statements
  • Cash planning
  • Scenario analysis
  • Clear understanding of assumptions behind the model
• Executive communication skills
  • Experience preparing and defending recommendations to senior leadership and Boards
• Applied AI fluency
  • Ability to demonstrate how AI is used in analytical work
  • Validate outputs
  • Improve a recurring workflow
  • Coach others to use AI effectively
• Experience improving planning systems, data quality, and operating processes
  • Pigment is the current platform; experience with a comparable platform is relevant
• Sound judgment under ambiguity
  • Willingness to work directly in the details when required by the decision
• Experience valued (not required)
  • Enterprise SaaS
  • Complex customer contracts
  • Significant financing or public-company readiness processes
  • Leaders from adjacent technology businesses with comparable operating complexity

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation details are provided during the offer stage.

Location

• Headquarters is in San Francisco.
• Distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.