LaunchDarkly

Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

LaunchDarkly

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $256,000 - $414,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Operate FP&A with minimal executive oversight, while maintaining CFO-level rigor and judgment
  • Deliver credible, decision-useful plans and forecasts that executives and the Board trust
  • Enable faster, more confident decisions on hiring, spend, and investment trade-offs
  • Establish FP&A as a true business partner to functional leaders, not a gatekeeper
  • Build a scalable FP&A operating model suitable for a $200M–$400M+ ARR SaaS company
  • Own the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, and long-range (multi-year) financial plan
  • Ensure plans are internally consistent, strategically grounded, and clearly tied to operating drivers
  • Translate strategy into actionable financial frameworks that guide execution over time
  • Serve as a trusted financial partner to GTM, Product, Engineering, and G&A leaders
  • Improve decision velocity around hiring, spend, and investment while maintaining fiscal discipline
  • Help functional leaders understand trade-offs, ROI, and second-order impacts of decisions
  • Own the financial story presented to the executive team and Board
  • Clearly articulate performance, risks, opportunities, and forward-looking implications while ensuring forecasts and plans are explainable, defensible, and decision-oriented
  • In partnership with the CFO, play a leading role in preparation, analysis, and communication with analysts, banks, and potential investors.
  • Build and maintain clear models for headcount, operating spend, and margin evolution
  • Establish pragmatic guardrails that balance growth enablement with financial responsibility, including financial governance and decision support for purchasing and vendor spend
  • Enable dynamic reallocation of resources as business priorities evolve
  • Lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team (including existing team members)
  • Expand capacity thoughtfully, including leveraging lower-cost regions where appropriate
  • Establish clear FP&A processes that scale without adding unnecessary friction or bureaucracy
  • Partner closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to ensure plans and forecasts are grounded in trusted, watertight metrics
  • Align planning models with certified definitions of ARR, NRR, GRR, FCF, and other company-critical metrics
  • Help identify leading indicators that improve forecast accuracy and early-warning capabilities.

Requirements

  • Proven FP&A leadership experience in a B2B SaaS company at ~$200M+ ARR
  • Direct experience supporting executive teams and Boards with planning and forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at a scale where ambiguity, trade-offs, and speed matter
  • Track record of building credible multi-year plans that guide company strategy
  • Ability to independently run FP&A end-to-end, not merely manage budgeting cycles
  • Strong business judgment and comfort making recommendations with incomplete data
  • Trusted advisor style; collaborative, pragmatic, and easy to work with
  • Ability to influence without authority and integrate seamlessly with functional leaders
  • Clear communicator who elevates discussions rather than adding noise or complexity
  • Deep understanding of SaaS financial models, unit economics, and growth drivers
  • Ability to connect detailed analysis to executive-level implications
  • High integrity and appreciation for the accountability associated with company-critical plans.
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Hard Skills & Tools
FP&Afinancial forecastingfinancial modelingmulti-year planningbudget managementfinancial governancedata analysisSaaS financial modelsunit economicsdecision support
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationbusiness judgmentinfluence without authoritytrustworthinesspragmatismstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingaccountability