Strategic Finance Associate, GTM
Mixpanel- Compensation
- $138k–$187k Published range
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco Bay Area Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Mid-level
About the job
About Mixpanel
Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next.
About the Role
This is a hybrid role based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Lead to serve as a domain owner within our Financial Planning and Analysis team. This role is a trusted advisor to functional leaders across the business, owning the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain and driving the analytical rigor that shapes leadership decisions.
About the Team
The FP&A team enables Mixpanel's ongoing financial success by creating visibility into financial outcomes, delivering insights for strategic decisions, and identifying key trends to support decisions with constantly improving financial models.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the end-to-end financial planning process for GTM — from brief to delivery — setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms.
- Help define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
- Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects.
- Support the design and improvement of planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams.
- Support cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives.
- Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience at a B2B SaaS company.
- The ability to support the design of planning processes and frameworks — not just operate within them — and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority.
- Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis.
- Strong experience supporting GTM, and experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream.
- Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences.
- BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA a plus.
Compensation
The total target cash compensation (TTCC) includes base and variable compensation. This position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.
Mixpanel Compensation Range: $138,000—$187,000 USD
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
Culture Values
Make Bold Bets, Innovate with Insight, One Team, Candor with Connection, Champion the Customer, Powerful Simplicity.
Why choose Mixpanel?
We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and track company success metrics.
Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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