Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Strategic Finance leadership role sits at a core SaaS junction: translating Product and R&D strategy into operating and investment decisions. In SaaS businesses, the biggest financial levers often live inside engineering velocity, cloud infrastructure economics, and adoption dynamics, and this remit is explicitly tied to those drivers through close partnership with Product and R&D executives.
For a long-term SaaS finance path, the role offers repeated exposure to planning cycles that shape roadmap trade-offs, capacity and headcount planning, and the metrics that connect build decisions to revenue efficiency. The emphasis on scenario modeling, consumption-style economics, and cloud spend optimization reflects where modern SaaS finance is heading—toward unit economics literacy across both seat-based and usage-based patterns, and toward finance teams that automate and scale their own tooling.
This position is best suited to a senior finance professional who prefers influence through cross-functional partnership rather than narrow controllership, and who is comfortable moving between strategic narratives and detailed models. It will fit someone who wants high visibility into how a SaaS product organization allocates resources, measures progress, and adjusts plans as inputs change.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
As the Director of Strategic Finance, you will be leading FP&A for all R&D and Product strategy, and will partner closely with key members of the R&D and Product Leadership team, including the CPO and Chief R&D.
You will be a valued business partner in driving cross-functional, strategic planning and delivering business insights for all R&D and Product functions. You will partner with various functions in leading strategic projects as well as report on meaningful financial and operational metrics to drive insightful and data-led business decisions.
You will play an active role in defining strategic investments that favor the long term and set up Gong for continued success. You will have high visibility into the vision and goals of R&D and Product divisions, as you evaluate and support key metrics that will drive profitable growth at scale.
You will be responsible for:
- Manage, develop, and grow the strategic finance function for Product & R&D to help drive Gong’s growth through innovation
- Partner with the Product and R&D leadership teams in thinking through and modeling long-term P&L trajectory
- Strategically influence ongoing analysis on compute, product adoption, and optimization
- Lead forecasting and budgeting, partnering with department leaders on monthly, quarterly, and annual analysis
- Prepare and analyze management presentations, including monthly reporting, BOD, QBR, and Finance Review
- Partner with the Accounting Team to support the month-end close process
- Build complex financial models and analyses, including competitive analysis, gross margin analysis, pro forma models, scenario-based models with sensitivities, and consumption-based product models.
- Provide financial expertise to help support headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
- Develop and implement scalable, efficient financial processes, leveraging AI and automation across FP&A to enhance reporting, forecast accuracy, and overall team productivity in support of our rapidly growing business.
- Partner with FinOps and Engineering to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure spend, balancing cost efficiency, performance, and scalability
You should apply if you have:
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, equity research, strategy consulting, or strategic/corp finance, preferably at either a high-tech or enterprise software company
- 4+ years of experience building and managing high-performing teams
- Proven business partnership experience with C-suite executives and demonstrated ability to provide thought leadership to various functions.
- Deep experience with various financial applications, including ERP, CRM, and financial planning applications (Salesforce, Netsuite, Excel, etc.)
- Understanding of both traditional SaaS and consumption/outcome-based business models
- Familiarity with Enterprise Software (SaaS preferred) metrics, ideally including both seat-based and consumption-based product models, with a focus on AI native technologies
- Experience working in a startup environment, with an ability to balance strategic initiatives and operational execution
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related discipline
What makes working at Gong unique?
At Gong, we empower our employees with ownership to solve complex problems, make impactful decisions, and build cutting-edge products. We call this “Own. Solve. Impact.”
About us
Here at Gong, we encourage our employees to express their personality and identity (whether gender, ethnic, religious, or sexual), and we ensure fairness and equal opportunities. We follow a hybrid working model that combines working from home, on the go, or at the office. This allows us: flexibility, autonomy, positive work relationships, and effective work habits. If these considerations are important to you when choosing a workplace, we'd love to see you with us.
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*This position requires Israeli residence
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