Senior FP&A Director, Confluent
Research and Development
$282.7-303.3k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$282.7-303.3k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of FP&A experience, with at least five years directly managing people and teams in a high-growth software company
- Experience partnering with the R&D function
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive clarity in complex environments
- Experience operating at all levels with the ability to be hands-on while also keeping an eye on the strategic big picture
- Experience managing and scaling finance teams
What the job involves
- Confluent is seeking a seasoned Senior Director of FP&A to lead financial planning, analysis, and strategic decision support across R&D and G&A. This role requires a seasoned finance professional with a strong financial modeling, forecasting, and strategic planning background. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated individual who is intellectually curious, results-driven, and a crisp communicator with solid business and financial acumen. This role reports to the SVP Finance
- Lead FP&A support for R&D and G&A functions, partnering with senior executives to drive financial discipline and strategic decision-making
- Partner closely with Product and GTM teams on pricing strategy, providing financial frameworks and analytics to inform pricing decisions and monetization models
- Analyze and optimize Cloud gross margins and infrastructure costs, partnering across both internal teams and external vendors
- Drive operational support and modeling for key G&A initiatives, including recruiting capacity planning and real estate optimization
- Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering career growth and operational excellence
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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