Director of Product Finance, Fivetran
$192.9-241.2k
+ RSU's
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Automated data movement platform
Job no longer available
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192.9-241.2k
+ RSU's
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced Leader: 8–10+ years in investment banking, consulting, or buy-side investing coupled with operational experience at a fast-paced, scaling company
- Tech-Savvy Strategist: Experience in high-growth SaaS or public tech companies, with a strong track record of evaluating R&D investments through a return driven framework
- Analytical Storyteller: Proven ability to connect financial models to real-world business outcomes. Exceptional at turning complex data into actionable insight
- Operator’s Mindset: Experience with investment frameworks, capital allocation, zero-based budgeting, and activity-based costing
- Engineering Fluency: Familiarity with technical teams, product roadmaps, and the product development lifecycle, especially how they influence financial planning
- Builder Mentality: Excited to improve systems, streamline processes, and scale infrastructure
- Strong Communicator: Confident with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners. Skilled in executive-level presentations and board materials
- Tool Mastery: Advanced Excel/Sheets skills. Bonus points for Looker, NetSuite, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, or Pigment
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or related field. MBA or CFA preferred
- If you're ready to lead with purpose, build with passion, and bring financial insight to the heart of product innovation, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Fivetran is looking for a bold, visionary Director of Product Finance to lead a high-impact team at the intersection of finance, technology, and product innovation
- This is not a back-office role - it's a strategic seat at the table to help drive strategic decision making across our product org
- You'll be embedded with our Engineering and Product leaders, serving as a trusted partner who transforms complex technical decisions into clear, data-driven financial strategies
- You’ll lead and grow a team of finance professionals, elevate operational rigor, and play a critical role in guiding R&D investments across the company
- Your work will influence how Fivetran allocates capital, launches new products, and scales for the future
- This is a rare opportunity to drive real impact in an engineering-first company, where financial clarity accelerates innovation
- Own Strategic Financial Planning: Lead all budgeting, forecasting, and reporting activities for R&D and CoR, from monthly close to long-range planning
- Champion Investment Strategy: Design and operationalize a VC-style R&D investment framework that sharpens our investment lens and unlocks engineering leverage
- Drive Business Partnership: Act as the go-to finance leader for Product, Engineering, and Operations, bringing financial depth to resourcing, roadmapping, and cross-functional decision-making
- Advance Product ARR Strategy: Partner with GTM finance to drive insights and analysis around Product ARR and revenue expansion
- Lead with Influence: Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization, including senior executives and board-level stakeholders. Drive financial storytelling that informs critical decisions
- Develop Talent: Manage and mentor a team of 3+ analysts, fostering ownership, growth, and strategic thinking
- Build for Scale: Enhance and automate core financial models, systems, and reporting infrastructure to support a fast-growing business
- Support Public Readiness: Contribute to earnings preparation, guidance modeling, and external reporting as we evolve as a public company
- At Fivetran, you won't just report on the numbers—you'll help write the future of our business
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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