Cockroach Labs
Director, FP&A
New York, NY; San Mateo, CA · Director
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About the role
- This is a lean, high-leverage role built for someone who wants to stay close to the work.
- You'll run a small, fast-moving team and lean heavily on AI to extend what the team can do.
- At a moment when FP&A is being reinvented at the best companies in the world, you'll be the one doing the reinventing here.
Responsibilities
- Own long-range strategic planning.
- Own the company-wide planning and forecasting process and rebuild it for the AI era.
- Drive interactive, real-time scenario modeling.
- Enable R&D, GTM, and G&A leaders to answer their own financial questions through natural language interfaces and live dashboards - reducing FP&A's role as a data provider and expanding its role as a strategic advisor.
- Partner cross-functionally with R&D, GTM, and G&A leadership. Build a business partnering model that is rigorous, trusted, and powered by real-time data, not last month's numbers
- Assess honestly where the team's time is going to work that AI should own.
- Build strong relationships with the CFO, the Executive Leadership team, and your team.
- By 60 Days: Establish yourself as a trusted partner with a clear-eyed diagnosis of planning process, forecasting cadence, data architecture, and AI readiness.
- By 90 Days: Deliver an AI-Native FP&A Transformation Roadmap, a Data & Metrics Foundation Plan, a redesigned Planning & Forecasting process, and a long-range strategic financial model supporting the company's next phase of growth.
- Fluency with recurring and consumption-based revenue models and the metrics that drive them - ARR, net and gross retention, cohort economics, payback - or clear evidence you'll get there fast.
Requirements
- Leverage AI to accelerate narrative generation and scenario modeling, while ensuring every output reflects the precision and credibility required for a public company audience
- 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, spanning investment banking, private equity, and/or FP&A at a high-growth company, with a strong foundation in financial modeling and analysis.
- We're open to candidates earlier in their career with particularly strong investment banking or transaction experience, provided they bring exceptional modeling speed and fluency with modern AI tools.
- A track record of driving AI or technology-led transformation of a finance function.
Compensation
- The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is listed in USD below.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Retirement Benefits
- Mental Wellbeing Benefits
Company info
- You'll report to Sailesh Munagala, CFO, who joined Cockroach Labs recently bringing deep financial leadership experience from Vectra AI, Relativity, Google Cloud, and Palo Alto Networks.
- Sailesh's strategic vision and operational expertise will be instrumental as we scale the business and accelerate our growth.
- You'll partner closely with our Data & Applied AI team, who will build and maintain the technical infrastructure behind these AI-native workflows.
- You don't need to be a data engineer or AI builder yourself.
- Your job is to know what FP&A needs, translate that into requirements, and apply the judgment that turns machine output into decisions.
- Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at accessibility@cockroachlabs.com.
- Cockroach Labs has a hybrid work model, with Roachers that are local to one of our offices coming in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and working flexibly the rest of the week.
- While we've learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.
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