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Salary: USD 191,000 - 287,000 / annual
Mixpanel is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) leadership as a strategic financial partner. This role owns infrastructure costs, EPD operating expenses, and headcount planning while building scalable systems to improve financial visibility and decision-making across these critical functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the Product investment envelope by owning OpEx and headcount budgets across EPD, ensuring investments align with company strategy while maintaining efficient spend and margin targets.
- Drive rigorous workforce planning across technical and corporate teams by building bottoms-up headcount models by function and level, partnering with Engineering leaders to sequence hiring against roadmap needs, compliance requirements, and operational scale.
- Model infrastructure and internal systems economics by developing clear forecasting models for cloud hosting, AI/compute, internal tooling, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems, identifying optimization opportunities across both product infrastructure and corporate tech stack.
- Translate roadmap and corporate priorities into financial tradeoffs by evaluating build vs. buy decisions, capitalizable vs. expensed R&D, and vendor investments across EPD, providing clear ROI-grounded recommendations.
- Elevate budget vs. actuals rigor across the organization by leading monthly BvA reviews for EPD, automating reporting, improving accrual accuracy, and surfacing actionable insights.
The ideal candidate will operate as a true partner to technical leadership, bringing deep understanding of how product velocity and operational infrastructure translate into financial outcomes. You'll work independently through ambiguity, bringing structure to complex problems without established playbooks, and communicate sophisticated financial and technical topics clearly to executives.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in FP&A or strategic finance at a high-growth technology company
- Proven partnership with Engineering leaders, supporting technical teams and corporate functions
- Fluency in infrastructure and SaaS cost drivers, including cloud economics, AI/compute scaling, enterprise tooling, and how architecture and vendor decisions impact margins
- Strong workforce planning experience managing complex headcount models across multiple departments
- Advanced financial modeling skills with scenario-driven models, clear assumptions, and sensitivity analysis
- Strong analytical judgment and ability to identify key variables within large, complex datasets
- Ability to operate independently through ambiguity and bring structure to unstructured problems
- Excellent executive communication skills and ability to develop polished, executive-ready deliverables
- High say/do ratio, strong attention to detail, and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
- Bonus: hands-on experience with Pigment
