Director of FP&A, R&D

Join our team as the Director of FP&A, R&D. In this strategic finance role, you will partner with Engineering, Product, and Data/ML leadership, manage the R&D operating plan, and establish LLM economics as a fundamental financial discipline. You will drive efficiency through direct engagement with our data stack and support major R&D spend decisions. This position offers flexible working hours, a variety of virtual team events, and a comprehensive benefits package.

• Act as the strategic finance partner to Engineering, Product, and Data/ML leadership, owning the R&D operating plan and establishing LLM economics as a fundamental financial discipline.
• Manage the P&L for R&D headcount and Cost of Revenue (CoR) for AI in production, driving efficiency through direct engagement with our data stack.
• Build the analyses that shape build-vs-buy, pricing, and infrastructure decisions, and support foundation-model and cloud vendor negotiations with data-backed positions.
• Precise, low-ego, self-directed, and concise work ethic
• Strong grasp of how R&D spend flows through the P&L
• 8+ years in FP&A / corporate finance, with meaningful time supporting R&D, Engineering, or a technical/product org
• Nice to have: Experience at a high-growth AI/ML company, familiarity with modern data stacks, contract negotiation experience, people management experience, and CPA/CA/CFA
• Nice to have: Familiarity with a modern data stack (dbt, EPMs) and building repeatable, auditable finance pipelines
• Strong SQL (BigQuery a major plus) and expert Excel/Sheets modeling, with clean, maintainable model architecture
• Deep comfort with SaaS and AI/usage-based economics: CoR, gross margin, unit economics, and how infrastructure/inference cost drives them
• Ability to be a genuine partner to technical leaders, holding substantive conversations with engineering or ML leads to translate technical work into financial views