Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis, LaunchDarkly
$256-414k
OTE
Range shown inclusive of 20% Bonus Target. Plus Restricted Stock Units. Salary dependent on location.
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$256-414k
OTE
Range shown inclusive of 20% Bonus Target. Plus Restricted Stock Units. Salary dependent on location.
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Proven FP&A leadership experience in a B2B SaaS company at ~$200M+ ARR
- Direct experience supporting executive teams and Boards with planning and forecasting
- Demonstrated ability to operate at a scale where ambiguity, trade-offs, and speed matter
- Track record of building credible multi-year plans that guide company strategy
- Ability to independently run FP&A end-to-end, not merely manage budgeting cycles
- Strong business judgment and comfort making recommendations with incomplete data
- Trusted advisor style; collaborative, pragmatic, and easy to work with
- Ability to influence without authority and integrate seamlessly with functional leaders
- Clear communicator who elevates discussions rather than adding noise or complexity
- Deep understanding of SaaS financial models, unit economics, and growth drivers
- Ability to connect detailed analysis to executive-level implications
- High integrity and appreciation for the accountability associated with company-critical plans
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is hiring a Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as the single accountable leader for company-wide planning, forecasting, and financial decision support as the business scales from ~$200M ARR toward its next phase of growth
- This role exists to ensure LaunchDarkly has credible, forward-looking financial plans, fast and disciplined decision-making, and an FP&A function that operates as a strategic enabler of the business—not a reporting or budget-policing function
- Reporting to the CFO, the VP FP&A will independently own the annual plan, multi-year strategic plan, rolling forecasts, and executive financial narratives, while partnering deeply with GTM, Product, Engineering, and G&A leaders
- This leader will materially improve the speed, clarity, and confidence with which the company makes resourcing, investment, and trade-off decisions
- Operate FP&A with minimal executive oversight, while maintaining CFO-level rigor and judgment
- Deliver credible, decision-useful plans and forecasts that executives and the Board trust
- Enable faster, more confident decisions on hiring, spend, and investment trade-offs
- Establish FP&A as a true business partner to functional leaders, not a gatekeeper
- Build a scalable FP&A operating model suitable for a $200M–$400M+ ARR SaaS company
- Own the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, and long-range (multi-year) financial plan
- Ensure plans are internally consistent, strategically grounded, and clearly tied to operating drivers
- Translate strategy into actionable financial frameworks that guide execution over time
- Serve as a trusted financial partner to GTM, Product, Engineering, and G&A leaders
- Improve decision velocity around hiring, spend, and investment while maintaining fiscal discipline
- Help functional leaders understand trade-offs, ROI, and second-order impacts of decisions
- Own the financial story presented to the executive team and Board
- Clearly articulate performance, risks, opportunities, and forward-looking implications while ensuring forecasts and plans are explainable, defensible, and decision-oriented
- In partnership with the CFO, play a leading role in preparation, analysis, and communication with analysts, banks, and potential investors
- Build and maintain clear models for headcount, operating spend, and margin evolution
- Establish pragmatic guardrails that balance growth enablement with financial responsibility, including financial governance and decision support for purchasing and vendor spend
- Enable dynamic reallocation of resources as business priorities evolve
- Lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team (including existing team members)
- Expand capacity thoughtfully, including leveraging lower-cost regions where appropriate
- Establish clear FP&A processes that scale without adding unnecessary friction or bureaucracy
- Partner closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to ensure plans and forecasts are grounded in trusted, watertight metrics
- Align planning models with certified definitions of ARR, NRR, GRR, FCF, and other company-critical metrics
- Help identify leading indicators that improve forecast accuracy and early-warning capabilities
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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