Senior Director, Product & Technology Finance

Reddit is seeking a solid, analytical, strategic, creative, knowledgeable, and visionary finance leader to join our Finance team as a Senior Director, Product and Technology Finance . In this role, you will provide strategic and value-added financial leadership in partnership with our Engineering organization. You will partner with the Engineering teams to drive alignment and resourcing planning decisions, helping to align the needs of the business to the financial plan for the company. This person will be a thought partner, owning and driving the agenda in their area of responsibility, by driving financially responsible opportunities, and improving accuracy of reporting/insights. Additionally, you will be involved in continuing to stand up a financial process for evaluating and tracking Global Technology decisions, including working cross-functionally with other organizations within Reddit to ensure decisions are well-thought through (tax, legal, accounting, audit, etc.).

If you are someone who is passionate about growing with a rising business, values efficiency and creative problem-solving using financial/quantitative metrics, and thrives in a fast-paced, open and fast-growing environment, then this is a great role for you!

Responsibilities

• Develop and Build a Product Finance Function - Spearhead the development and evolution of the Product Finance function, establishing robust processes that align financial rigor with product velocity. This includes designing and implementing a strategic framework for evaluating investments with ambiguous or long-term returns, enabling leadership to make data-informed decisions even in the face of uncertainty.
• Support Reddit’s Engineering Organization - Partner with Engineering leadership to provide financial modeling assistance for key business decisions including prioritizing resources and investments to get the best ROI. Develop understanding of Engineering related issues and priorities; reconcile those matters with long term forecasts.
• Strong Thought Leadership - Bring insights from industry knowledge and your business acumen to show a capability of influencing business leadership to drive results. You will have a passion for improving existing processes and be able to work across teams to achieve results.
• Deliver engineering P&Ls - Own financial forecasts, annual operating plan, budget tracking, and long range plan by partnering with various stakeholders. Establishing and communicating information about financial targets on a quarterly and annual basis; identifying and reporting risk and opportunity levels determined for the overall financial plan; providing actionable insights (e.g. productivity analysis, ROI, contractor spend optimization, capex management, etc).
• Cloud Reporting - Work closely with our team to track and report our KPIs against our most strategic Cloud Hosting agreements. Continue to optimize costs by working with engineers to balance workloads across our dual cloud environment. Run strategic projects in partnership with program management and engineering leaders to drive efficiencies and accountability for promised returns.
• Business Development and Corp Dev related to Tech and Product Initiatives - Partner closely with the business development and corporate development teams to drive growth initiatives, assess M&A and evaluate post deal results.
• Engineering Productivity and Resource Allocation - Obtain a deep understanding of resource allocation and support the CTO and CPO in product rationalization discussions, as well as evaluate how strategic developer productivity decisions correlate to financial efficiencies.
• Communications and Presentations – Provides strategic input for business decisions by overseeing the production of complex financial models that incorporate assumptions, expectations, and known risks; preparing presentations and other supporting materials for recommendations.
• Talent and Leadership – Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent

Qualifications

• • BA/BS degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics or similar quantitative discipline (MBA, CPA, not required, but highly preferred)
  • 15+ years in FP&A experience with 2+ years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure and cloud cost analysis, and 5+ years of people management (role will be actively managing a small but highly productive team)
    • Must have experience working with AWS or GCP cloud products
  • Experience working in investment banking or consulting required
  • Experience working with Engineering a plus
  • Strong understanding of financial statements including B/S, P&L and drivers for margin.
  • Experience with owning and leading planning and forecasting, large data sets and sophisticated models, proven proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint presentations and deck creation
  • Strategic thinker who demonstrates leadership, vision, and insight
  • Hands-on manager with a strong finance background
  • Strong work ethic; high sense of urgency; ability to learn and deliver results in tight timeline
  • Experience partnering with stakeholders across the organization and drive projects forward
  • Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Benefits:

• Annual Personal & Professional development funds
• Comprehensive Health benefits
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• 401k Matching
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Monthly Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off