The role
Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide.
Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits.
Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries.
About the role
We are looking for a high-impact finance professional to join our growing FP&A team, providing financial planning and analysis support across the company. As we scale toward $100M+ ARR, you will partner with leaders across the business, translating operating plans into actionable budgets, forecasts, and performance metrics.
Reporting to the Senior Director of FP&A, this role blends hands-on modeling and analysis with cross-functional partnership, giving a broad visibility into the company's financial operations and a strong platform to grow your FP&A career as the team scales.
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with department leaders across the business to develop annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, providing strategic guidance on resource allocation and cost optimization.
- Metrics & Reporting: Build and maintain reporting suites tracking key business and financial metrics, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the organization.
- Corporate FP&A Support: Support the Senior Director of FP&A in running the annual operating plan (AOP) and quarterly forecasting process. Develop and own models to inform headcount planning, budget allocation, and resource prioritization.
- Investment Optimization & ROI Analysis: Evaluate the return on key corporate investments such as product development, AI projects, pricing models, and strategic initiatives to drive scalable growth and maintain strong unit economics.
- Executive & Board Reporting: Help prepare financial materials for executive leadership and board meetings, working with the Senior Director of FP&A to translate data into clear, actionable narratives.
- System Improvements: Support ongoing improvements to financial systems and data integrity to help maintain a single source of truth for key metrics.
What You Bring
- Experience: 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, ideally including exposure to a $100M+ ARR B2B SaaS company.
- Industry Knowledge: Understanding of license, SaaS, and consumption/usage-based business models, ideally within Database, Infrastructure, or Developer Tools spaces (e.g., Snowflake, Datadog, Databricks, AWS-style models). Exposure to AI-related business models is a plus.
- Technical Skills: Advanced Excel financial modeling skills (driver-based modeling); working knowledge of SQL, BI & AI tools; familiarity with Salesforce and cross-functional business processes.
- Communication: Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear insights for cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics; MBA or CPA a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Impact: You will directly shape the growth strategy of a fast-growing database startup.
- Visibility: You will work intimately with the leadership team.
- Growth: This is a career-defining opportunity to build the FP&A team and establish the processes, systems, and culture for the finance function and we scale toward $100M+ ARR and beyond.
We work in a hybrid model, with the team together in our Sunnyvale office 2–3 days per week.
We feel strongly about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one way to help achieve that. The cash compensation for this role is market competitive, with a range of $150,000–$200,000 USD OTE. As well as equity (when applicable), and benefits including health plans, retirement plans, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). The pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. The actual pay will vary based on factors including experience, qualifications, and skill level.
Due to the Proclamation, “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers”, which went into effect on September 21, 2025, at this time we are no longer able to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions filed after September 21, 2025 for new hires. We are still able to consider candidates who require H-1B extensions, changes of employer, or other types of work authorization.
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