Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Chainguard
+ Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
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Software supply chain security company
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Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- ~10+ years of progressive FP&A/strategic finance experience, ideally in high-growth technology / SaaS / cybersecurity / security software companies
- Demonstrated track record of leading FP&A at the director or senior-director level: building models, driving planning/forecasting, partnering with senior leadership
- Strong business partnering and influencing skills — able to translate financial insight into business decisions, engage non-finance stakeholders
- Excellent analytical and financial modelling skills; comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change
- Strong communication skills — able to present to the C-suite and board, distill complex financials into clear recommendations
- Experience with driver-based planning, scenario modelling, and advanced Excel / financial planning tools. Familiarity with enterprise planning/CPM systems is a plus
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup/scale-up environment, with growth orientation, and willingness to roll-up sleeves
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team, set priorities, and deliver results
What the job involves
- As the Senior Director of FP&A at Chainguard, you will lead the strategic finance function responsible for planning, forecasting, analysis, and business partnering
- You will drive financial insights and decision-support that enable Chainguard’s growth in the open-source security space
- You will partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into financial plans, ensure robust processes, and guide high-visibility decisions
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly re-forecasting, and long-range (3-5 year) strategic planning processes
- Develop and maintain driver-based financial models, scenario planning, and what-if analyses to support business growth and capital allocation decisions
- Provide timely, actionable financial and operational insight to business unit heads (GTM, Product, Engineering, Ops) and executive leadership: revenue trends, margin analysis, cost structure, cash flow, head-count planning
- Own the monthly/quarterly business review process: present P&L, balance sheet, cash flow variance analysis, highlight risks & opportunities
- Partner with Accounting/Controller on financial close, forecasting vs actuals, ensuring data integrity, assumptions validation, and reporting consistency
- Drive process improvement, automation, and system enhancements within FP&A (e.g., financial planning tools, dashboards, analytics)
- Serve as a strategic business partner: influence decision making, evaluate new business models, investments, partnerships, M&A, pricing, cost optimization
- Build, lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team: recruit, mentor, set goals, build skills in financial modelling, business partnering, and presentation
- Ensure FP&A aligns with company values and culture – enabling a fast-moving startup/scale-up environment while maintaining rigor and discipline
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Total funding: $892m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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