Vice President of Strategic Finance, Steno
$230-265k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
More information about location
Court reporting and litigation services
Be an early applicant
Court reporting and litigation services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-265k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To optimize the litigation experience with a revolutionary approach to deposition services created by attorneys, for attorneys.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of experience spanning FP&A and Business Operations, ideally including time in investment banking, management consulting, or a BizOps / Strategy & Operations seat at a scaling company
- They have a track record of owning the FP&A cycle end-to-end — reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and board-level narrative — at a company with real operational complexity
- They operate with deep analytical rigor and have experience running ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from framing through to decision
- This person thinks in systems, communicates complex analysis with clarity, and has a bias toward operational action. Experience in SaaS, legal tech, or marketplace businesses is highly valued, as is familiarity with tools like Looker, dbt, or Snowflake
- You are genuinely curious about how every part of the business works, and you have learned to read financial outcomes through a business-first lens
- When revenue is down, your first question isn’t “what changed in the model?” — it’s “what happened in the business that the P&L can’t show me?” That answer might live in Ops (a service delivery constraint, a throughput issue), in GTM (a territory change, a comp plan that shifted rep behavior), in Product (a change that affected how clients experience the service), or in a people decision made two quarters ago
- You know the P&L is a lagging report on decisions that were already made — and you’ve built the instinct to work backwards from the number to the real cause
- You think like an internal consultant
- You’re the person other leaders pull in when a problem is messy, cross-functional, and doesn’t have an obvious owner — because you can frame the question, build the analytical case, align the stakeholders, and see the work through to a decision
- You distinguish leading indicators from lagging ones instinctively
- When you build a model or a report, you don’t stop at the dashboard — you use it to change how a team operates
- You also think in systems
- When a new tool is being evaluated or a new business unit is being modeled, you’re already considering how it connects to the broader ecosystem, who needs to be involved, and how to set things up for success
- You are comfortable operating in environments where the infrastructure is evolving and the process is still being built — you see that as an opportunity to create something better
What the job involves
- Steno is an operationally complex business, and the financials are always a downstream read on what’s happening upstream. That means the interesting questions don’t live in the P&L — they live in how jobs get scheduled, how providers get paid, how firms get invoiced, how sales teams get deployed, and how product usage ladders up to revenue
- You will be the person who diagnoses across all of it. It's a strategic, high-impact role
- Own the full FP&A cycle — reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis — with the narrative depth that helps leadership understand not just what happened, but why, and what it means for next quarter
- Act as the company’s internal consulting bench — pick up the ambiguous, cross-functional problems that don’t yet have an owner and run them from problem framing to decision to implementation
- Diagnose beyond the model — when something moves in the P&L, trace it back to what actually happened in the business: a comp plan change, a service delivery constraint, a product decision, a team restructure
- Drive action, not just insight — use data to inform real-time decisions on staffing, pipeline performance, pricing, and resource allocation
- Connect the dots across the company — surface the insights that span teams before anyone thinks to ask for them
- Build with a systems mindset — evaluate tools, data infrastructure, and processes with an eye toward scalability, integration, and downstream impact
- Lead the company’s highest-stakes analytical work — unit economics, investment cases, new business models, and deep dives that shape company direction
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the SVP of Finance — pressure-test assumptions, flag second-order impacts, and bring rigor to decisions that span the business
- You'll report directly to Dayna Shi, SVP of Finance, and work cross-functionally across the organization. There is no ceiling on the impact you can have
Application process
- Background checks are only conducted after an offer is extended. If you haven’t received an expected communication, check your spam
- Steno uses AI-assisted tools for this role to identify and prioritize candidates whose experience aligns with the role. All hiring decisions are made by our People team
Our take
Steno is a court reporting agency that offers services to legal professionals, government agencies, and businesses. As a trusted partner, Steno allows law practices to streamline their operations and work more efficiently, all while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and reliability in its reporting services.
Steno's services are tailored to cases that can take over a year to settle. One of the company's standout offerings is the 'DelayPay' product, which enables lawyers to defer payments for critical services such as court reporting, arbitration, videography, and interpreting until their cases are concluded.
Steno has experienced substantial progress over the past few years, with a growth rate that more than tripled in 2021 alone. Steno received $15 million in a 2024 Series B round and has since begun to roll out its gen-AI-powered Transcript Genius, a tool for transcript analysis, indicating a culture of continued innovation.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2024
$20m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2024
$46m
LATE VC
Total funding: $87.5m
Company HQ
South Park, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Greg Hong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded the restaurant reservation management system, Reserve (acquired by Resy/American Express) where they served as the CEO for 5 years.
Dylan Ruga
(Co-Founder)Currently a Trial Attorney at Stalwart Law Group, which they founded. Previously a Partner at Steptoe & Johnson and a External/Law Clerk at US Courts.
Dan Anderson
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded the payment checkout process, Hail (acquired by Reserve) where they served as CEO. Also worked for the Zurich Insurance Company as Risk Consultant, Head of Application Security, and Director.
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