Senior Analyst, Niantic Labs
Strategic Finance
$120.6-134k
+ Bonus + equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Job no longer available
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$120.6-134k
+ Bonus + equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human being in the physical world.
Role
Who you are
- A strong candidate will possess keen critical thinking and analytical abilities with strong communication and project management
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or similar with 3+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, FP&A, or related quantitative fields
- Proficient in building financial models and executive presentations from scratch, using Excel / PowerPoint (or Google Suite)
- Strong passion for technology & entertainment and an understanding of key financial and non-financial metrics
- Enthusiasm for Niantic games and shaping the future of Augmented Reality!
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- Experience at a high growth start-up, gaming, AR/VR, infrastructure, or similar technology sectors
- Experience with managing public cloud infrastructure spend (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
- Experience with Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, or similar financial tools
- Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Analyst, Strategic Finance to become a key part of our Finance team and to support our growing Gaming and AR Platform initiatives
- This candidate will partner with global business leaders across the company and use acuity to drive business decisions
- This role will help to define and deliver metrics, analyses, forecasts, and finance support
- Niantic's Finance team ensures that the company succeeds in a competitive global market by working cross-functionally to keep the business running smoothly
- Partner with US & Tokyo Game Studios and AR Platform teams to manage budgets and to drive insights, guidance, and recommendations on ongoing initiatives
- Develop a deep understanding of the Augmented Reality and Mobile Gaming industries to build financial models and drive cross functional alignment
- Partner with Engineering to drive greater transparency and optimization of our infrastructure unit economics and overall COGS spend that power our products
- Support annual planning, quarterly forecasting, monthly close, and board meetings while ensuring financial data accuracy and instilling rigor & process along the way
- Compile monthly budget versus actuals financial package and provide commentary on variances to highlight key risks and opportunities to the business
- Evaluate existing business processes and provide recommendations to drive efficiency and scalability
- Assist in ad hoc projects including preparation of board deck materials, modeling new products, pricing, fundraising, competitive intelligence, etc
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
- Required in-office 2 days on Monday and Wednesday
Our take
Niantic Labs is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, and Pokémon GO, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Parental leave transition assistance by Maven
- Fertility benefits with Carrot
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long-term and short-term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare access by Spring Health and EAP
- Increasing paid time off with tenure
- Five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
- 401(k) match
- Equity options
- Compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Wellness Reimbursement: We build our platform and games to give our players even more reasons to get outside, explore the world, and lead more active lifestyles, so we offer monthly gym, internet, and cell phone reimbursements to help our teams do just that.
- Commuter benefits and subsidization: To allow you to set aside money every month for both parking and transportation
- Donation Matching: Niantic gives enables employee donation matching and volunteer opportunities. Each employees can request a Niantic match of up to $500 per employee, each year.
- Legal Services and Identity Theft: ARAG’s legal services provide protection for many legal matters incurred by you, your spouse, or your children.
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
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