FP&A Lead, MotherDuck
$120-195k
Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
Data analytics platform
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Data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-195k
Offers Equity
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of progressive FP&A experience, with at least 2 years at a high-growth startup (SaaS preferred)
- Strong financial modeling skills and deep analytical capabilities
- Experience building bottoms-up forecasts and top-down strategic plans
- Comfort working with ambiguous, messy data and creating structure from chaos
- Technical proficiency: Excel/Google Sheets mastery, SQL, experience with BI tools (Omni, etc.)
- Understanding of SaaS metrics (ARR, CAC, LTV, burn multiple, etc.)
- A bias for action, comfort rolling up your sleeves, and ability to move fast without sacrificing quality
- Strong communicator who can tell stories with data and influence without authority
- Startup DNA: scrappy, resourceful, and energized by building something from scratch
- Does this role sound appealing to you, but you’re missing some of the requirements or don’t quite think you’re qualified? Please apply anyway
What the job involves
- At MotherDuck, we're building the future of cloud-based data analytics with DuckDB at the core. We're a team that values agency, thoughtfulness, flexibility, and a healthy dose of unorthodoxy
- As we grow, we're looking for an FP&A Leader who shares these values and can help us make smarter decisions through rigorous financial analysis—without losing our scrappy, curious spirit
- As our FP&A Lead, you won't just be building models in spreadsheets; you'll be the analytical engine that helps leadership understand our business, allocate resources wisely, and chart our path to success
- This is a roll-up-your-sleeves role where you'll have real ownership, the freedom to dig deep into the data, and the responsibility to turn complex information into clear insights
- Exercise agency: Own the full FP&A cycle including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and board reporting—building frameworks that fit our unique business
- Embrace unorthodoxy: Find creative ways to analyze our business without defaulting to traditional SaaS metrics if they don't tell the full story
- Practice thoughtfulness: Deliver insightful analysis that goes beyond the numbers—help leadership understand the "why" behind performance and what it means for decision-making
- Stay flexible: Build models and processes that accommodate rapid change while maintaining analytical rigor
- Partner closely with leadership on strategic planning, resource allocation, and investment decisions
- Own the monthly/quarterly financial review process and board materials
- Build and maintain financial models that forecast revenue, expenses, cash flow, and key metrics
- Drive the annual planning process and quarterly re-forecasting cycles
- Analyze unit economics, customer cohorts, and operational metrics to inform strategy
- Support fundraising efforts with investor materials and scenario modeling
- Collaborate with GTM, Engineering, and Product teams to understand drivers and optimize performance
- Implement and optimize FP&A tools and dashboards to enable self-service analytics
- What people should be saying if you’re doing ducking awesome
- "Our forecasts are accurate and leadership actually trusts the numbers."
- "They don't just report what happened—they explain why it happened and what we should do about it."
- "Board materials are clear, compelling, and tell the story of our business beautifully."
- "They're not afraid to challenge assumptions or push back when the math doesn't work."
- "Our planning process is rigorous but not bureaucratic—we move fast but with good data."
- "They understand the business deeply, not just the financials."
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company is now well-positioned to further enhance its platform and expand its user base. As MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements, the company is also poised to play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees (plus 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents)
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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