Key skills
CAIAnalyticsSaaSWorkdayLeadershipBudgetingMentoringCommunicationSales
About this role
About Mixpanel
Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more.
About the Strategic Finance Team
The Strategic Finance team enables Mixpanel’s ongoing financial success and operates as a strategic partner to business units—providing analysis, frameworks, and recommendations that shape how we allocate capital and make decisions. This means creating visibility into our financial outcomes by running and improving tight financial reporting processes with all members of executive leadership. It means using these processes coupled with analytical prowess and strong communication skills to deliver keen insights upon which strategic decisions will be made. It means identifying key trends to support these decisions with constantly improving financial models. Through this, the Strategic Finance team guides the company through financial hurdles, fuels growth opportunities, and ultimately drives long-term success.
About the Role
As a Senior Manager of Strategic Finance, you will act as a financial partner to cross-functional leadership. This role has significant executive exposure. You'll partner directly with C-level leadership, own strategic analyses end-to-end, and translate complex financial data into actionable recommendations. We value candidates with strong analytical foundations—whether from advisory roles, operating environments, or a combination of both.
Responsibilities
- Perform both strategic and tactical responsibilities—including acting as the strategic lead on high-impact projects.
- Play a foundational role in building the Strategic Finance function, with a clear trajectory toward managing and mentoring direct reports as the team scales.
- Build financial models and frameworks that inform capital allocation, investment decisions, and resource prioritization.
- Provide accurate reporting that creates actionable insights and analysis to support decision-making processes.
- Collaborate with all parts of the company to design and execute strategic initiatives.
- Own and facilitate Monthly Business Reviews, synthesizing performance data into strategic recommendations.
- Present analysis and recommendations to executive leadership with clear frameworks and supporting rationale.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing) to provide financial perspective on strategic decisions.
- Drive continuous improvement through standard operating cadences.
We're Looking For Someone Who Has
- 8–10 years of progressive experience across strategic finance, FP&A, consulting, investment banking, private equity, or related analytical roles.
- Demonstrated ability to build financial models, business cases, and strategic recommendations for senior decision-makers.
- Experience interfacing with C-level executives and presenting strategic recommendations.
- Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, including forecasting, scenario analysis, and valuation.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive to actionable conclusions.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
- Track-record of collaborating with cross-functional partners to lead transformation and growth.
- Highly motivated, innate intellectual curiosity, and a strong desire to drive impact.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
Bonus Points For
- MBA or relevant professional certification (e.g., CFA, CPA).
- Familiarity with SaaS business models, revenue recognition (ASC 606), and subscription-based finance.
- Experience with operational FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, reporting) and strategic FP&A (long-range planning, M&A support).
- Demonstrable passion for the data analytics industry.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity.
#LI-Hybrid
Compensation
The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.
Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*
Culture Values
- Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
- Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
- One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
- Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
- Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
- Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.
Why choose Mixpanel?
We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.
Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.