Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Cockroach Labs
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Cockroach Labs
Distributed SQL database for cloud apps
For more than a decade, Cockroach Labs has built database technology trusted to power some of the world's most mission-critical applications. Now, as AI transforms how software is created and operated, the infrastructure behind it has to keep pace. Cockroach Continuum is built to meet this moment, bringing individual databases together into one fleet designed for agentic applications, where AI agents help teams provision, scale, and optimize workloads at machine speed.
At Cockroach Labs, you'll help build the systems, programs, and operating foundation behind a category-defining company. You'll work alongside people who think deeply, move with purpose, and understand that how we scale matters as much as how quickly we do it. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to own that opportunity.
Cockroach Labs is seeking a Director of FP&A to reimagine our FP&A function from the ground up and lead it into the next era of finance. Reporting directly to the CFO, you'll architect a fundamentally different way of working, one where AI handles the routine, data-intensive work that consumes most finance team bandwidth today, and where FP&A operates as a real-time decision engine rather than a retrospective reporting function.
This is a lean, high-leverage role built for someone who wants to stay close to the work. You'll run a small, fast-moving team and lean heavily on AI to extend what the team can do. You’ll stay hands-on yourself, building models and strategic analysis directly rather than running the function purely through others. At a moment when FP&A is being reinvented at the best companies in the world, you'll be the one doing the reinventing here.
To be eligible for this role, you must be based in the Bay Area or New York City.
First 30 Days: Get deeply oriented in the business, revenue model, go-to-market motion, R&D investment strategy, and current financial systems. Assess honestly where the team's time is going to work that AI should own. Build strong relationships with the CFO, the Executive Leadership team, and your team.
By 60 Days: Establish yourself as a trusted partner with a clear-eyed diagnosis of planning process, forecasting cadence, data architecture, and AI readiness. Begin shaping a phased transformation roadmap, starting with the highest-ROI automation opportunities.
By 90 Days: Deliver an AI-Native FP&A Transformation Roadmap, a Data & Metrics Foundation Plan, a redesigned Planning & Forecasting process, and a long-range strategic financial model supporting the company's next phase of growth.
You'll report to Sailesh Munagala, CFO, who joined Cockroach Labs recently bringing deep financial leadership experience from Vectra AI, Relativity, Google Cloud, and Palo Alto Networks. Sailesh's strategic vision and operational expertise will be instrumental as we scale the business and accelerate our growth.
You'll partner closely with our Data & Applied AI team, who will build and maintain the technical infrastructure behind these AI-native workflows. You don't need to be a data engineer or AI builder yourself. Your job is to know what FP&A needs, translate that into requirements, and apply the judgment that turns machine output into decisions.
Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at [email protected].
Cockroach Labs has a hybrid work model, with Roachers that are local to one of our offices coming in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and working flexibly the rest of the week. While we’ve learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.
The annual anticipated base salary range for candidates for this role is listed below. Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs’ Total Rewards package, which also includes: stock options, medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life and disability insurance, funds for professional development, flexible paid time off, paid sick days and holidays, paid parental leave, and wellbeing benefits. We have a match on 401(k) contributions in the U.S.
We set competitive pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Benefits programs are designed according to local market practices. Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies. In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.
Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range 205000 - 250000 USD
Distributed SQL database for cloud apps
Cockroach Labs builds and sells CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database designed for cloud applications. It runs across many servers and regions so it can store data locally where customers operate and still act as one global database. The product automatically distributes data and workload, scales elastically as demand grows, and keeps data consistent even if parts of the system fail, with options for cloud-based or on‑premises deployment. Revenue comes from subscription-based pricing based on usage and deployment choices. Compared with other databases, its key differences are multi-region, globally available data with regional sovereignty, continuous availability during failures, and strong SQL support used across environments. The company’s goal is to provide a scalable, reliable, and globally accessible database that helps modern cloud applications run smoothly in any region.
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