Director Financial Planning & Analysis, Lilt
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AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
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AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, ideally with a mix of high-growth SaaS and Services exposure
- Strong background building FP&A functions from scratch in fast-paced, venture-backed environments — you’ve done this before and know how to navigate ambiguity
- Expertise in SaaS metrics (ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, payback period, etc.), understanding of Services business models, KPIs, and financial frameworks
- Hands-on experience with financial modeling, budgeting, and board-level reporting
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail, but equally capable of thinking strategically
- Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; familiarity with FP&A tools (e.g., Mosaic, Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive) is a plus
- Executive-ready communication skills — comfortable presenting insights and recommendations to Executive-level audiences and the Board
- Self-starter with a bias toward action, solution-oriented mindset, and desire to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail, but equally capable of high-level strategic thinking
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CPA, or CFA is a plus
What the job involves
- LILT is seeking a Director of FP&A to continue building out and leading our financial planning and analysis function from the ground up
- Reporting directly to the CFO, this high-impact role will own budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, KPI tracking, and strategic planning across the business
- You will partner closely with leadership to drive financial insights, shape decision-making, and help scale LILT through its next phase of growth
- Build and own the FP&A function — design scalable processes, tools, and reporting frameworks from scratch
- Strategic Planning: Lead the company’s annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning cycles
- Business Partnering: Work closely with department heads (Sales, Marketing, Product, Services) to drive financial accountability and optimize investment decisions
- Board and Investor Reporting: Support the CFO in preparing board decks, investor updates, and strategic analyses
- Financial Modeling: Create and maintain dynamic models for revenue, expenses, headcount, cash runway, and SaaS metrics (CAC, LTV, NRR, etc.)
- KPI Development: Define, track, and analyze company-wide KPIs, and proactively surface insights and recommendations
- Scenario Planning: Develop "what-if" analyses to support strategic decisions, pricing changes, geographic expansion, M&A, and other initiatives
- Systems and Automation: Evaluate and implement FP&A systems and tools as the company grows
- Ad Hoc Analysis: Be the go-to resource for deep dives on customer profitability, margin optimization, pricing models, and operational efficiencies
- Success in 6 Months:
- Established Core FP&A Processes: Built a dynamic, company-wide financial model, operating budget, and forecasting cadence
- First-Class Reporting: Delivered actionable, high-quality monthly reporting packages and KPIs to the executive team and Board
- Strategic Partner to the Business: Developed trusted relationships with key functional leaders; deeply embedded in their operating plans and decision-making processes
- Insight Generation: Produced financial insights that shaped pricing, go-to-market strategies, hiring plans, and resource allocations
- Future-Ready Infrastructure: Identified and kicked off implementation of the right FP&A systems/tools to enable scale into the next growth phase
- Predictability & Control: Increased organizational financial predictability and improved budget discipline across the business
Our take
Widely available tools like Google Translate are not fit for complex, operationally intense processes that require expert translations. Manual methods of yesterday can't scale with the volume of digital information produced in the world today. Lilt works with companies, schools, and government agencies to provide AI-powered enterprise language translation. Lilt’s platform combines a translation management system and neural machine translation with human language experts to create a “human-in-the-loop” approach.
While companies like AI Translate offer intelligent machine translations, they still have linguists fine-tune and correct the texts afterward. With the Lilt platform, AI and humans work in collaboration through the text together, with the AI making real-time sentence suggestions and the linguist reviewing them immediately. This collaboration creates 3-5x better efficiency compared with traditional human-only translation services, aiding in Lilt's substantial rounds of funding.
Clients such as Asics, Canva, and Digital Ocean use Lilt technology for urgent campaigns and large-scale localisation projects. Recently, Lilt launched its V3.5 translation models, which improve quality by 15% to 20%, significantly enhancing translation accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, Lilt appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to propel growth and scale, emphasising its commitment to expanding its market presence and improving its services further.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$55m
SERIES C
May 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $91.9m
Company benefits
- Compensation: Meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
- Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months
- Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
Leadership
John DeNero
(Chief Scientist)Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley for 7 years and Senior Research Scientist at Google for 4 years.
Spence Green
(CEO)Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Assistant - Computer Science at Stanford University for 6 years and Fellow at XSeed Capital for 1 year.
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