Director, FP&A
Remote · United States of America · USD 168,000-285,600 · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · United States of America
- Salary
- USD 168,000-285,600 · Base salary
About the role
- The Director, FP&A will lead finance for GitLab's Research & Development (R&D) organization, serving as the strategic finance partner to the CTO.
- This role involves owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions while connecting R&D spend to product outcomes.
- The position requires leading the AI transformation of R&D finance processes and managing a team of finance analysts.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the finance advisor to the CTO and R&D leadership.
- Lead annual planning and rolling forecasts for R&D, including headcount, compensation, cloud, and AI/LLM costs.
- Build frameworks connecting R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes.
- Evaluate business cases for new initiatives, AI capabilities, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Define and track R&D efficiency metrics such as cost per engineer and AI inference cost per feature.
- Partner with People and R&D leaders on hiring plans, location strategy, and organizational design.
- Lead the AI transformation of R&D finance workflows.
- Redesign FP&A processes, policies, and reporting systems.
- Collaborate with Accounting on capitalized software, accruals, and allocations.
- Hire, coach, and develop the R&D finance team.
Requirements
- Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization.
- Experience leading a team of analysts.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers.
- Experience leading process redesign and change in a finance team.
- Hands-on use of AI tools to improve work processes.
- Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders.
- Advanced financial modeling skills following industry best practices.
- Expertise in Google Sheets and hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Ability to work remotely and asynchronously.
Preferred qualifications
- Enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) finance experience
- Direct CTO partnership experience
- NetSuite
- Sisense
- Adaptive Planning
- SQL
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Benefits
- Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Workplace
- Remote role based in the United States.
- Requires asynchronous collaboration across time zones.
Skills
- Financial Modeling
- Google Sheets
- Data Visualization
- AI Tools
- NetSuite
- Sisense
- Adaptive Planning
- SQL
