Director of Finance GTM, Docker
$175-250k
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Salesforce
Snowflake
NetSuite
Expert level
Remote from US
More information about location
App development platform
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App development platform
501-1000 employees
B2BInternal toolsSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing
Be an early applicant
$175-250k
+ Offers Equity
Salesforce
Snowflake
NetSuite
Expert level
Remote from US
More information about location
501-1000 employees
B2BInternal toolsSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing
Company mission
To increase the time developers spend on innovation, and decrease the time they spend on everything else.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, or commercial finance at high-growth SaaS companies
- Strategic finance or investment banking foundation: the analytical rigor that comes from banking, consulting, or a strategic finance rotation, applied to an operating GTM finance role
- Direct experience as a financial partner to a CRO, CMO, or VP Sales. You understand how revenue organizations work: capacity planning, territory design, quota setting, pipeline management, forecast discipline, marketing investment optimization
- Experience with consumption, usage-based, or hybrid pricing models. You've worked at a company operating multiple revenue models or navigating a pricing transition
- Track record of implementing AI-powered tools and workflows within a finance or operations team, moving beyond personal use to scalable adoption across a function
- Experience designing or meaningfully influencing sales compensation plans
- 3+ years managing and developing finance professionals
- Deep fluency in SaaS metrics: ARR, NDR, GDR, pipeline coverage, CAC/LTV, magic number, churn/contraction
- Ability to build a revenue forecast from unit-level drivers (top of funnel, pipeline generation rep productivity, ramp curves, win rates, seats, conversion rates), not just trended dollars
- Strong executive communication: board-quality narratives and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively with CRO/CMO-level stakeholders
- Analytics and data orientation: you've shaped what gets measured and how it gets reported, not just consumed dashboards built by someone else
- Systems orientation: you move teams from manual processes to scalable infrastructure
- Fluency with Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, Sigma, Pigment and other finance tech stack tooling
- AI fluency: you use AI tools in your own work and can lead AI adoption within a finance team. We're an AI-first company, this matters
What the job involves
- We're building the platform for AI-powered development, scaling GTM, and evolving from a single-product company into a multi-product, multi-motion business
- The financial architecture for that transition needs a leader who brings both strategic finance depth and GTM operating experience
- This is an opportunity to build the GTM financial playbook from the ground up
- You'll lead GTM Finance at Docker, serving as the financial partner to our CRO, CMO, and broader go-to-market leadership
- Your job is to make sure Docker deploys its GTM capital wisely: where to add capacity, how to structure compensation, how to measure efficiency across motions, how to model the commercial impact of an evolving product portfolio, and how to build the analytics infrastructure that gives leadership real-time visibility into performance
- You'll be the steward of Docker's critical GTM metrics: ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Pipeline, Churn, Net and Gross Retention, and GTM productivity
- You'll own the top line model and forecast, lead monthly business reviews across Sales, Marketing, and broader GTM, design the operating cadence for a scaling GTM org, and drive the analytics and data roadmap that gives leadership self-serve visibility into performance
- You'll also own the financial narrative that goes to our board and investors
- Beyond the operating cadence, you'll bring strategic finance horsepower to high-impact projects: board materials, investment frameworks, cross-cutting analyses that shape executive decisions
- We want someone with the analytical foundation (banking, consulting, or strategic finance) to tackle these, combined with the operating experience to partner effectively with a revenue organization
- Inform GTM capacity and investment decisions
- Build the analytical frameworks that tell leadership where to deploy capital and whether it's working
- Sales capacity modeling, CAC by motion and segment, pipeline coverage diagnostics, marketing ROI
- When the CRO wants to add headcount, the CMO wants to fund a demand gen initiative, or the Growth team wants to invest in PLG infrastructure, you build the case (or challenge it)
- Own the global top line model and forecast
- Build and maintain the bottoms-up bookings and revenue forecast with unit-level drivers
- Design the forecast operating cadence for a company at Docker's scale: the right weekly and monthly rhythm for accuracy, pacing and course correction
- Model commercial economics for new products
- Docker is launching new products
- You'll model the commercial side: customer adoption curves, attach rates, field capacity to sell, and revenue ramp
- Product finance handles cost and margin
- You model how fast the field can sell new products, through which motion, and at what efficiency
- Partner with GTM leadership across Sales, Marketing, CS, and Services
- Be the financial voice alongside our CRO, CMO, and broader go-to-market leadership
- Own the monthly business review cadence across these functions
- Push back when assumptions don't hold up
- Help Marketing time and prioritize spend against revenue outcomes
- Bring financial rigor to retention and expansion strategy
- Build and evolve the models and processes that create a data-driven performance culture across the GTM org
- Drive the analytics and data roadmap
- Shape the analytics infrastructure that GTM and company leadership runs on
- Define what gets measured, how it gets reported, and what self-serve visibility leaders have into company performance and efficiency
- Design sales compensation for a multi-product business
- Lead the evolution of comp plans as Docker moves from seat-based to multi-product
- Design consumption compensation structures, quota methodology grounded in capacity analysis, and incentive alignment across new SKUs
- Deliver the board and investor narrative
- Own the GTM financial story in board materials and quarterly investor packages
- Translate operational complexity into a clear growth narrative
- Lead cross-cutting strategic finance initiatives
- Bring the structured thinking and analytical depth of a strategic finance background to operating questions
- Build frameworks for how Docker should think about GTM efficiency, motion economics, and long-range commercial architecture
- Own multi-year financial planning for the GTM org: long-range capacity models, market expansion scenarios, and the investment roadmap that connects today's spend to future growth
- Drive AI adoption across the finance function
- Build AI into how the team works: forecasting, analysis, reporting, and decision support
- You'll set the standard for how a modern finance team uses AI to move faster and deliver more strategic output
- Develop a high performing team
- Covering GTM FP&A, top line forecasting, finance data and analytics, and sales compensation
- Coach, provide strategic direction and create executive exposure and growth paths
- First 30 Days:
- Learn the business. Build relationships with GTM leadership, get deep into the revenue model and forecast methodology, and assess where the operating cadence needs to evolve
- First 60 Days:
- Own the operating rhythm. Take full ownership of the revenue forecast and the monthly business review cadence across GTM
- First 90 Days:
- Drive decisions. GTM leaders are coming to you with investment questions. You have a point of view on where the business should deploy capacity and how to measure whether it's working
- One Year Outlook (First Year):
- You've shaped how Docker thinks about GTM efficiency and commercial architecture. The analytical frameworks you've built are informing executive decisions on investment, pricing, and growth strategy
Our take
Docker supplies a hub and desktop solution to simplify the workflow of app development teams. Originally known for popularising the idea of containerising software, it saw itself outpaced by Kubernetes. However, the company has identified a problem with the growing complexity of containerisation, with some apps consisting of dozens or even hundreds of containers - which is what it now addresses.
Docker has had a difficult time in the recent past, with 2019 seeing it sell off its enterprise business, reduce its workforce by hundreds, and change its leadership team. As a well known brand and ecosystem for containerisation, however, it aims to lure developers back to its product as well as to take advantage of the growing global demand for app development.
Returning to focus on developers rather than large companies was certainly a gamble, but one that seems to have paid off. The company has returned to profitability and raised Series C funding in 2022, which is cited to fund hiring new talent, ramping up its business, and continuing to develop and refine its product. It's also embarked on a series of acquisitions to bolster its business, with speculation mounting about its possible sale in the near future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Mar 2022
$105m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $498m
Company benefits
- 100% company paid medical premiums for employees and dependents
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- “Whaleness” Days — At least 1 company wide day off per month
- Employer Paid Holidays
- Generous Maternity and Parental Leave
- Home Office Set Up Budget
- Monthly Technology Stipend
- Training Allowances
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Virtual and In-Person Social Events
- Docker Swag
- Quarterly Hackathons
- Virtual Coffee with Co-Workers
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Don Johnson
(CEO)Previously Executive Vice President of Infrastructure at Oracle, was a Principal Engineer at Amazon and a Lead Software Engineer at RealNetworks.
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