Strategic Finance - R&D/G&A

Responsibilities

• Be the dedicated finance partner to R&D and G&A leadership. Own the financial relationship with Engineering, Product, Design, HR, Legal, and Finance teams.
• Own headcount and operating expense planning for your orgs. Build and maintain bottoms-up models for R&D and G&A cost bases including headcount by team, vendor spend, allocated infrastructure costs, and discretionary budgets.
• Support strategic resource allocation decisions including build vs. buy tradeoffs, team sizing, investment prioritization, vendor contracts, and functional scaling.
• Drive annual planning and ongoing forecasting cycles. Translate business priorities into financial plans and own forecast-to-actuals variance analysis.
• Bring structure to ambiguous investment questions such as evaluating engineering platforms, sizing legal teams, or assessing ROI of people programs.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or consulting with exposure to technology companies or headcount-driven organizations.
• Strong financial modeling skills to build clean, flexible headcount or opex models from scratch and explain them to non-finance stakeholders.
• Curiosity about product and engineering organizations, including team structure, infrastructure cost scaling, and people investment ROI.
• Ability to build trust quickly with non-finance partners such as engineers and lawyers.
• Comfortable pulling and working with data independently using SQL, BI tools, or FP&A platforms.
• Clear communication skills to distill complex cost driver analyses into crisp narratives for leadership.

Compensation

• Total rewards include base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or San Francisco Bay Area: $142,900 - $160,700
• US employees outside those areas: $128,600 - $144,600
• Canadian employees: CAD 135,000 - 151,900