Senior Product Finance Manager (Strategic Finance)
About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Product Finance Manager to serve as the finance business partner to our CTO organization (Product, Engineering, R&D). This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility to executive leadership and potential to build a team as we scale. This is a rare opportunity to build product finance infrastructure from the ground up and directly shape how we allocate capital across our evolving product suite.
Responsibilities
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Act as the primary finance partner to the CTO organization (Product, Engineering, R&D), embedded in planning, prioritization, and major investment decisions
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Lead business cases and driver-based models for new product launches, major feature investments, and launch readiness, including revenue potential, COGS impact, and margin outcomes.
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Support investment gate materials (scenarios, sensitivities, and risks) and make recommendations for leadership.
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Define and operationalize KPIs for evaluating product performance: unit economics, SKU-level profitability, pricing sensitivity, and contribution margins across our evolving product portfolio
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Partner with Engineering leadership to understand and forecast key cost drivers (compute, infrastructure, vendor costs) and translate them into financial planning assumptions
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Lead annual planning and forecast cadence for the CTO org: budget, headcount, prioritization, and productivity assumptions.
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Partner with Product and GTM on pricing/packaging for new and existing offerings, ensuring value delivery aligns with value capture and cost structure
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Collaborate with Analytics and DevOps to define KPIs and ensure adoption of reliable reporting (clear definitions, single source of truth, decision-ready dashboards).
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Support the CFO and executive leadership on strategic initiatives
Skills & Experience
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10+ years in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, or management consulting (MBB)
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Proven experience supporting technical organizations and influencing executive decisions in ambiguous environments.
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Strong driver-based modeling skills; ability to structure ambiguous problems and communicate trade-offs clearly
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Advanced Excel/Sheets and comfort with BI tools (Looker, Omni, Tableau, etc.); SQL is a strong plus
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Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills with senior technical and GTM stakeholders, as well as non-finance audiences
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Track record of operating in fast-paced, high-growth, VC-backed environments
Strongly Preferred
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Understanding of cloud infrastructure and variable cost structures
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Prior exposure to multi-product portfolio management and product-led growth motions
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Experience scaling finance processes through periods of rapid organizational growth
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Product intuition and curiosity – you ask 'why' and understand what drives product decisions
