Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

This role is responsible for owning the financial economics of how the business grows. You will build and run models connecting operational drivers, resourcing, and investment to growth and retention targets, and serve as a finance partner to business leaders to evaluate whether spend and capacity support those targets.

Working closely with the Head of Strategic Finance and cross-functional partners, you will own capacity and productivity modeling, forecasting, segment-level economics, and efficiency analysis that informs board reporting. Your work will shape how the organization invests in growth.

Responsibilities

• Own capacity and productivity models, including ramp, coverage, attainment assumptions, and whether the hiring plan supports growth targets
• Build forecasting models, including pipeline or demand coverage, conversion rates, and cycle time; translate results into a defensible forecast across segments
• Own and maintain rigorous, consistent, decision-ready unit economics
• Partner with business leaders across functions to pressure-test the ROI of key investments
• Partner on pricing and packaging economics
• Prepare analysis and supporting materials for board and investor reporting in coordination with the Head of Strategic Finance
• Lead ad hoc scenario analysis for new segments, new initiatives, or pricing changes to support faster, better-informed decision-making

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, or management consulting, including time at a high-growth company
• Strong modeling skills bridging finance and operations, including capacity and productivity models, forecasting models, cohort and segment analysis, and scenario work
• Deep understanding of unit economics, including CAC, payback period, LTV to CAC, retention, and efficiency metrics
• Fluency working directly with data, including navigating a modern BI stack (for example Snowflake, dbt, and Looker or Omni) and comfort with core business systems
• Expert proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, with a high bar for accuracy and attention to detail
• Clear, concise communication skills, including translating complex analysis into a narrative that leaders and the board can act on, and ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders
• High ownership and low ego; comfortable driving workstreams independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• First-principles mindset and strong business judgment, with genuine curiosity about how the business works end to end

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling a strategic finance function at a high-growth company through rapid growth
• Hands-on experience with capacity and resource planning, and with compensation or incentive plan design
• Familiarity with consumption or usage-based pricing and how it affects revenue, retention, and gross margin
• Experience partnering directly with an Operations team, with comfort working across the seam between finance and business operations

Location

San Francisco