Head of Strategic Finance, Hightouch
$200-240k
AI platform for marketers
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AI platform for marketers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the best customer data technology in the world available to every enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- Impact orientation: you’ve driven increased visibility, accountability, and alignment in ways that have deeply improved a business
- Deep stakeholder empathy: you seek to understand your collaborators’ viewpoints and challenges
- Ability to derive meaningful strategic insights from a variety of datasets: you love playing detective to drive change
- Elite financial modeling: your models are accurate, easy to audit, and backed by a deep understanding of underlying business levers
- SaaS veteran: you have a strong knowledge of SaaS metrics and know the strengths and weaknesses of payback period, LTV/CAC, burn multiple, and the like
- Bonus points if you’re comfortable using BI tools (we use Omni, but experience with Looker, Hex, or Sigma will serve you well also) or SQL to find and analyze information
- You started your career in a top-tier investment banking, consulting, and private or public investing firm. You’ve already pivoted to and love high-growth startups and have potentially gone through an exit cycle
- You have at least five years of full-time work experience and your trajectory so far reflects the high level of impact you’ve made
- You’re deeply curious about businesses and how they grow
- You’d be excited to work hands-on at first and begin to grow out your team in the next 3-6 months after start
- You’re entrepreneurial and don’t wait for permission in order to make an impact
What the job involves
- Hightouch is hiring for a Head of Strategic Finance! You’ll drive improvement across every team at Hightouch, work closely with our executive team, and report directly to our CFO
- This isn’t a role where you’ll be doing Excel in a corner to build a model no one looks at. If you’ve been looking to deeply understand and make an impact on a high-growth startup, this role is for you
- Drive a culture of accountability by owning Hightouch’s operating model and running our monthly / quarterly business review cadence
- Work closely with the GTM team to ensure we’re maximizing ROI on our sales and marketing spend while effectively investing for the future
- Analyze, monitor, and drive improvements to our SaaS metrics
- Surface quantitative insights across the business to increase growth and efficiency
- Support investor relations efforts, including board meeting preparation
- Collaborate closely with our world-class Revenue Operations, Data, and Accounting teams to ensure that we have the information we drive thoughtful and rapid decision-making
Our take
With the growing need to combine data sources, along with the rise of cloud computing, demand for effective data integration tools and services has been on the rise. Hightouch provides a composable customer data platform to serve innovative marketers, alongside AI-powered tools for marketing.
Hightouch's platform helps marketers to build audiences and customer identities, collect and synch data, and analyse campaigns. LLM-based agents can be deployed to help streamline marketing, and the platform also supports AI decisioning. This comprehensive suite enables Hightouch to serve a range of businesses such as Spotify, Docusign, Warner Music Group, Grammarly and Autotrader.
Through development and acquisitions, such as of Workbase and Whatis, Hightouch has expanded steadily over the years. So long as it continues to enhance its capabilities and provide seamless data activation for its growing customer base, the company should have a bright future ahead of it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$38m
LATE VC
Total funding: $172.4m
Company benefits
- Hub & Remote friendly: Join our global team, either remotely or in one of our four in-person hubs. For those near a hub, enjoy complimentary lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Flexible PTO: Downtime is just as important as on time and your teammates will support you while you relax and recharge
- Core benefits: For full-time US-based employees, we cover all health benefit premiums, 80% for dependents, and life insurance
- Parental leave: We value and support the family planning process. We provide up to 16 weeks for parents
- Professional development: We support employees for all learning resources needed to grow in their role (classes, books, conferences, etc)
- Connectivity: We offer a $50 per month cell-phone or wifi connectivity stipend to all employees
- Commuter: Commuter benefits of $50 are offered to both employees who come into the offices and to remote workers working outside of their home
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Tejas Manohar
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)A Software Engineer with experience in lead roles at Lottery.com and Segment. Co-founded Hightouch in 2019.
Josh Curl
(CTO & Co-Founder)Significant Software Engineering experience at Rancher Labs and Segment. Co-founded Deviceplane in 2019 before co-founding Hightouch.
Kashish Gupta
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as a Product Manager for LYNK in 2016. Founded Mama's Cookin' in 2015 before co-founding Hightouch in 2019.
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