This is a hybrid role based out of San Francisco (preferred) or NYC and will require you to be in office Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What’s so interesting about this role?
Grindr just became a public company in 2022 and we are seeking a Director of Finance, Revenue & Insights to lead key financial strategy and reporting on revenue insights and performance and lead all revenue forecasting. The role requires a forward-looking thinker capable of operating at multiple levels, crafting detailed analysis to inform executive decision-making, and envisioning how new features and products can impact revenue as the team aims to accelerate.
This person will report to the VP of Finance and work closely with the FP&A, product monetization, and data insights teams. You are responsible for providing insights that can help us better understand our ongoing performance and propel the business forward and for building sophisticated and complex models to accurately forecast our revenue and related KPIs that help us make future revenue investment decisions. You will manage projecting long term growth, deliver accurate and timely revenue forecasts, help in the preparation of board materials, and design and maintain key performance revenue metrics reports.
Our goal is to drive long-term growth by exploring avenues to delight our users with products. If you’re excited by driving growth through global, cross-functional initiatives and want to be part of a company that is creating a safe space for the queer community, then this role is for you.
What’s the job?
This is a unique role that offers high impact and broad exposure across the organization. In this role, you will be the primary finance owner supporting the monetization team.
Responsibilities will include:
- Driving and owning regular revenue reporting, forecasting, and analysis to support strategic decision-making for executives and anticipate trends, challenges, and opportunities
- Developing revenue financial targets and lead revenue planning working closely with the monetization team to align on revenue initiatives and growth targets.
- Building and owning sophisticated and complex models for accurate monthly, quarterly, and multi year forecasting of revenue and KPI.
- Leverage data and insights to assess problems and risks to revenue, and provide robust solutions and recommendations to solve them. Work with the data engineering, data insights, and product teams:
- to analyze big data sets, interpret results, and present findings to management.
- to analyze test results (i.e. pricing changes or new product introductions) and make recommendations to management team
- Collaborate with accounting for process and reporting improvements and quarterly revenue forecasts. Cross-functional collaboration to truly understand the business and accurately forecast its growth.
What we’ll love about you
The ideal candidate will offer a well-rounded set of skills and experiences, capable of working autonomously, in a fast-paced environment. To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Previous experience working in finance at a technology company in a revenue related role
- 8+ years of experience in a financial role, 4+ years in a strategic role
- Past experience leading revenue analysis, forecasting and insights reporting, at a growth stage company
- Preference for subscription-based revenue experience
- Experience working on presentations for executive teams and boards
- Communicates financials effectively across the organization
- Experience conducting weekly, monthly and quarterly executive updates including both strategic and tactical topics
- Capacity to anticipate trends, challenges and opportunities, and be a trusted partner to the product organization to make key product decisions
- Keen eye for understanding of revenue trends, data analytics, and data insights. Experience working with big data sets, analyzing them and using them to build revenue models
- Experience collaborating across multiple levels and departments in an organization
- Deeply analytical and operationally excellent
- Able to altitude shift from heads-down financial reporting to big picture ideation
- Holds oneself to a high standard of output and quality
- Future-oriented mindset, ability to make long-term hypotheses and drive growth through that
- Superior proficiency in Excel (and SQL, preferred): you can build sophisticated models from scratch using advanced formulas/functions and dealing with large sets of data.
- Role expectations, logistics
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deliver insights, recommendations, and results concisely and effectively to executive level management. Desire to think big and dive deep; strong attention to detail with big picture orientation preferred.
- Strong time management skills, capable of project managing multiple priorities, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Based out of Bay Area (strong preference) or New York or open to relocation and excited to collaborate in-person
We’ll really swoon if you have
- Experience leading revenue finance at a digital subscription product-focused tech company
- Innately creative thinker about revenue and product strategies related to digital businesses
- Have experience with SQL, Looker or similar data visualization tools
What you’ll love about us
- Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
- Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
- Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
- Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.
About Grindr
Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.
Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we’re setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.
Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.
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Grindr is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role will also be eligible for equity, benefits, and a company bonus program.
New York Base Pay Range
$203,775—$239,875 USD
Bay Area Base Pay Range
$215,000—$252,500 USD
