Finance Lead
Job description
About PostHog
We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.
We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:
A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
Next on the roadmap are CRM, Workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!
We are:
Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.
We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.
Things we care about
Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.
Why PostHog?
You’ll have ownership. You’ll report to the co-ceo on all things Finance, you'll be able to have an impact from day 1 - you're the driver
No corporate theatre. You're joining a team that cares about substance over process. You'll be building finance for engineers who want clear answers and good decisions, not just building polished decks
You're joining a generational company. We are top quartile for revenue growth and top decile for efficiency for our stage. Think default alive on steroids. We have decades of runway and can take big bets.
Job Summary
So far we’ve managed to scale to $50m ARR, raised $180M through our series E, held our first tender offer, opened three entities and managed to keep our engineering team happy the whole time. We've got a really solid foundation of systems, processes and controls but we're a complex business growing fast - we don't know what we don't know. Our strong base allows us to look even further into the future and make even bigger bets. Now we are looking for a Finance Lead to come in and help us build on what is already here. Maybe you were, or reported to, a CFO or VP Finance, and want to lead PostHog in its next phase.
You'll report directly to our co-CEO Tim. You'll own decisions, budgets, forecasts, compliance, audits and generally be a leader that helps make Finance an enabler of every team at PostHog. You’ll power every product, infra, sales, CS, legal, people (you get it) team member to think about the financial success of the business. You’ll be able to tell the story to our newest team member and get them as excited as you will our board and future investors. This role is about living in the important details and translating these into the big picture.
What you’ll be doing
Owning FP&A and helping to make the big finance related decisions we'll face in the coming years
Reporting our financial metrics to our board and investors
Being responsible for the accuracy of our accounts, including revenue recognition across all our products
Ensuring all areas of payroll, indirect taxes and all other finance-y compliance issues are handled
Partner with our GTM teams to make sure we deliver the best experience to our customers
What you won't be doing
❌ Hiring an army of people - staying lean is key to our strategy.
❌ Strategy-only work. All roles at PostHog are hands-on, so you’ll set the plan and ship it.
❌ Following a playbook - you will write the playbook.
Requirements
10+ years of finance experience in a SaaS company (preferably a dev tool) that scaled well beyond $100m ARR
Been the #1 or #2 in terms of responsibility for finance
Nice to have
Located in Bay area or willingness to travel to SF once a month
Multi-entity experience
Worked for a remote-first company
Worked with usage-based revenue
If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!
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