Product Finance Director, R&D Capital Allocation & Engineering Operations

What you'll do

• Develop product-level ROI frameworks and use them to guide R&D investment and resource allocation.
• Model AI engineering costs and lead global engineering workforce, location, and facilities planning.
• Scale R&D finance workflows and tools, ensure operational rigor, and build and lead a finance team.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of experience in Strategic/Product Finance or R&D FP&A.
• Deep experience managing large-scale R&D OpEx, headcount capacity modeling, and multi-site workforce planning within a high-growth enterprise software or cloud company.
• Proven partnership with senior Engineering, Product Operations, and People/Workplace executives to drive capital allocation and operational rigor.
• Experience re-engineering financial processes and building, leading, and developing finance teams.

Nice to have

• Experience analyzing cloud dev/test infrastructure and AI tooling/token costs or attributing shared R&D costs across a multi-product portfolio.
• Hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python, or notebook environments, especially Databricks.

Pay

$223,800 — $307,650 USD (base salary); $201,400 — $276,850 USD (base salary)

Tools

SQL, Python, Databricks

AI focus

Models AI developer tooling and internal token costs, evaluates human-capital versus compute-capital tradeoffs, and measures AI-enabled engineering costs, including cloud spend.