Senior FP&A Manager - Technology, Product & Engineering

Senior FP&A Manager, Technology

CreatorIQ is looking for a Senior FP&A Manager, reporting to the VP of FP&A, to serve as the embedded finance partner to our Product and Engineering organizations. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role for someone who has done technology finance partnership before. You’ll own the financial lens on how CreatorIQ builds our product, on resourcing decisions across the roadmap, on cloud and infrastructure spend, and on the ROI case for major engineering investments. You’ll work directly with Product and Engineering leaders as a trusted advisor, not just a reporting function, translating technical initiatives and financial constraints into context that leadership can act on and that Product and Engineering can plan around.

Please note: this role hybrid with one day a week (Wednesday) in the Culver City office.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as the primary finance business partner to Product and Engineering leadership, building the relationships and credibility to influence decisions, not just report on them after the fact.

• Own budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for the Product and Engineering org, including headcount planning, cloud/infrastructure costs, and third-party software and tooling spend, across the strategic, annual, and quarterly planning cycles.

• Partner with Engineering leaders to understand and optimize cloud hosting and infrastructure costs (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure), identifying efficiency opportunities and tracking unit economics as the business scales into new product lines.

• Build and own the forecasting model for variable, consumption-based costs across new product lines (cloud compute/storage, API and data usage, AI/LLM inference and token costs), tying usage drivers to revenue.

• Develop consumption-based pricing recommendations for products or features with usage-driven cost structures, including the underlying financial plan (margin targets, breakeven usage levels, and sensitivity to customer usage patterns) to support Product and executive decision-making.

• Own cost analysis specific to AI-related spend (model inference, token consumption, third-party AI vendor/API costs), tracking cost per query/output, evaluating margin impact of AI-powered features, and partnering with Engineering to find optimization opportunities as AI usage scales.

• Analyze team productivity and efficiency across Product and Engineering, tracking metrics such as cost per engineer, output per engineer, and R&D spend as a percentage of revenue, to help leadership assess whether team structure and investment levels are producing the expected output.

• Build and maintain ROI and business-case frameworks for major product and engineering investments (e.g., new features, platform re-architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, AI investments, M&A/tech integration) so leadership can prioritize with financial rigor.

• Partner with Product and Engineering on roadmap prioritization, bringing a cost/benefit and capacity-allocation lens to planning cycles.

• Support Accounting in applying capitalization of internally developed software in accordance with GAAP (ASC 350-40).

• Design recurring reporting and dashboards (e.g., cost per engineer, R&D spend as % of revenue, infrastructure cost per customer/unit) and work with BI teams to build them, increasing leadership visibility and accountability.

• Support headcount planning and tradeoffs across Product and Engineering, including contractor and offshore support analysis.

• Actively engage with CIQ’s existing AI and automation initiatives, adopting tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and n8n in your own workflows and contributing ideas to extend their use across FP&A processes, reporting, and analysis.

• Present findings and recommendations directly to both the Product/Engineering and executive leadership teams.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of FP&A or finance business partnership experience, with 5+ years specifically supporting Product and Engineering organizations at a technology or SaaS company.

• Direct experience partnering with engineering leaders on cloud infrastructure cost management and optimization. You understand the cost drivers behind cloud spend and can hold a credible conversation with an engineering VP about them.

• Hands-on experience forecasting variable, consumption-based costs and building usage-based pricing models. You can build a financial plan around a cost structure that scales with usage rather than a fixed budget.

• Familiarity with AI/LLM-related cost structures (inference costs, token-based pricing from model providers, API/vendor costs) and how they factor into product margin and pricing decisions.

• Experience building team productivity/efficiency metrics for Product and Engineering organizations and using them to inform headcount and investment decisions.

• A proven track record as a business partner for Product and Engineering, serving as the translation bridge between Finance and Technology teams.

• A track record of building ROI/business-case models for technology investments and using them to influence real prioritization decisions.

• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills (SQL a plus).

• Experience with financial planning tools (e.g., Abacum, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, or similar) and ERP systems (e.g., Sage, NetSuite).

• Proficiency with and interest in AI assistants (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) and workflow automation tools (e.g., n8n) for research, analysis, communication, and streamlining recurring finance processes.

• Working knowledge of software capitalization rules (ASC 350-40) and how they apply to engineering headcount and project costs.

• Excellent communication skills, including comfort translating technical and engineering concepts into financial terms for finance and executive audiences, and vice versa for technical audiences.

• A bias toward being a proactive advisor who brings insight to, and challenges, Product/Engineering planning rather than just providing after-the-fact reporting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field. MBA a plus but not required.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience at a B2B SaaS company, ideally with a significant enterprise customer base.

• Experience supporting the investor-grade reporting rigor of a growth-equity or private-equity ownership structure.

• Exposure to M&A or technology due diligence.

Why This Role:

• CreatorIQ is the category leader in influencer marketing software, with the dominant share of enterprise brand customers.

• This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Product, and Engineering at a pivotal point in the company’s growth.

• You’ll have direct influence over how we invest in our platform and a clear line of sight to executive leadership.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Have 50% of the criteria? Excited about this opportunity? Interested about what we do at CreatorIQ? Please apply!

What you will get from us:

• People: work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

• Guidance: utilize our learning platform to fully get the training and tools you’ll need to become successful here from your first day with us.

• Surprise meal stipends: work from home can’t stop the enjoyment of someone else making a meal for you!

• Work/life harmony: 15 days vacation, floating and set holidays, wellness allowance, and paid parental leave.

• Whole Health Package: medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and more.

• Savings: a 401k (USA) plan to help you plan ahead.

• Work from home stipend: to assist you in setting up a home office that works for you (or buy a new dog leash - your choice!).

Compensation, benefits, and beyond:

We know that benefits play a significant role in your overall compensation. We invite you to review our benefits and perks.

Who we are:

CreatorIQ is enterprise infrastructure for creator marketing, trusted by more than 1,300 of the world's leading brands and agencies, including Beiersdorf, Delta Air Lines, Dentsu, Google, Nestlé, and Wella. Powered by the Creator Graph®, CreatorIQ's proprietary AI and intelligence foundation grounded in over 11 years of data, it’s built for teams, agents, and the entire enterprise tech stack. With headquarters in Los Angeles and offices in Austin, London, Manila, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw, CreatorIQ’s global team moves quickly and deliberately because we're setting the pace for an industry that's still being defined.

Learn more at www.creatoriq.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At CreatorIQ, different perspectives make our work better. The people we hire come from different backgrounds and think in different ways — and that's exactly what helps us connect with each other, and with the customers and creators we serve.We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and empowering work environment where everyone can thrive, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes us unique. By embracing our core values of being intentional, pursuing excellence every day, embracing the journey together, and being a good human, we create an atmosphere that promotes collaboration and growth. Join us to celebrate differences, innovate together, and be a part of a business that is disrupting the marketing industry.

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