FP&A Associate, Weights & Biases
Go To Market
$101-139k
+ Equity
MLOps platform for developers
Job no longer available
MLOps platform for developers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$101-139k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Weights & Biases's mission is to build the best tools for machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- As this is a highly cross-functional role, candidates are required to be highly analytical and very effective communicators
- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of superior financial modeling and using analysis to influence decision-making, including prior experience in a corporate finance and/or strategy-related role
- The candidate should be a self-starter with a strong work ethic, highly team-oriented, inquisitive, enjoy problem-solving, and focused on driving towards results
- 4+ years in relevant financial reporting/financial analysis experience with a proven track record of success in positions of increasing responsibility
- Must have prior experience in go-to-market FP&A (or focus on Sales, MKT, CS, or PS) at an enterprise SaaS startup or a private equity backed company
- Prior investment banking experience preferred with strong preference for tech investment banking experience
- Excellent financial modeling skills and experience leading and managing highly quantitative, complex analysis
- Very strong communication/ presentation skills with experience creating and delivering effective presentations to senior management
- Comfortable with a fast-paced, demanding environment. Must manage multiple tasks and juggle several urgent demands ast any given point, while adapting to changing priorities
What the job involves
- We are looking for an FP&A Associate, GTM (go to market) to join the growing FP&A team
- Reporting to the FP&A Director of GTM, this role is an integral part of reporting, forecasting, and partnership for the business’s GTM teams
- You will be involved in analyzing financials and operational data
- You will be analyzing the performance of departments, providing variance analysis on budgets & forecasts, and assisting with how to improve business performance
- The role requires designing and building new models & reports and presenting assumptions to the management team for consideration of different strategic scenarios
- You will have the scope to create, design, and implement processes to make the communication of information run smoothly and shape the compilation and presentation of reports
- Overseeing Sales and Marketing FP&A and Planning Models
- Lead the maintenance and accuracy of sales and marketing financial models used for forecasting and budgeting, supporting the FP&A GTM leadership team
- Partner with Rev Ops to support compensation planning as needed, including annual or quarterly target setting and calculation of actual payouts
- Oversee preparation of budgets and forecasts, support month-end close, lead monthly budget vs. actuals meetings with budget owners, complete month-end reporting and analysis, and operational and management reporting for the GTM team
- Establish timelines for the Sales and Marketing to ensure financial plans and budgets are delivered on time, consistent with overall company planning timelines
- Assist with project analysis, validation of plans, and ad-hoc requests as needed
- Reporting and Analysis
- Prepare and present comprehensive sales and marketing financial reports, including variance analysis, financial trends, and KPIs to senior management and stakeholders (monthly, quarterly, and annually)
- Support month-end close along with Corporate FP&A and Accounting for the GTM departments
- Support investor reporting of actual financials and key GTM operational metrics
- Prepare weekly/monthly GTM dashboards of operating results, trends, and metrics for the executive team. Track actuals to plan, identify sources of variability, and partner with the business to implement data-driven forecasting improvements
- Process Improvement and Automation
- Evaluate and improve sales and marketing financial processes, systems, data hygiene and tools to increase efficiency and accuracy in partnership with the Corporate FP&A team as well as Rev Ops, Data, People teams
- Assist in the implementation of an FP&A planning tool
Our take
Weights & Biases (W&B) builds development tools for machine learning, helping businesses to create and use deep learning models. In order for deep learning to work, it’s necessary for companies to be able to monitor how the models are behaving as they are trained. With over 200,000 customers, W&B has differentiated itself from its competitors such as IBM Watson Studio and Valohai by focusing exclusively on machine learning practitioners and not on sales aspects of the technology, and by its competitive pricing.
The company has also launched a product to help different parties collaborate on machine learning models. This is geared at researchers, reducing the need for them to rerun their training examples repeatedly. Over time, this will help to move machine learning technology forward. What's more, W&B's technology is free for personal and academic use, which has fueled adoption enormously, and it is now being used by research institutions such as UC Berkeley and enterpise companies like Samsung and Salesforce.
The dependence on machine learning is growing as more and more companies begin to use artificial intelligence to handle business tasks, so demand for this sort of software is rising. Having raised substantial funding, W&B is moving to futher develop its product, grow its team and increase its marketing reach.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$135m
SERIES C
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time
- 🩺 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage
- 🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco
- 💵 $500 home office budget with new high-powered laptop
- 🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity
- 🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave
- 📈 401(k)
Company values
- We're building a culture where people love coming to work to build cool things and collaborate with other smart people
- It’s important to us that everyone feels comfortable being themselves and being honest with each other, and all of us take responsibility for making our customers successful
- We love to work with people who are driven, kind and proactive
- We care about diversity and if you are part of an underrepresented minority, we especially encourage you to apply to work here
- We are contributing to responsible AI with tools for transparency and reproducibility in model development and deployment
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Chris Van Pelt
(CISO)Earned a BA in Computer Science at Hope College. Previously Lead Engineer and Founder of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Lukas Biewald
(CEO)Earned a BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Scientist and Founder, CEO of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Shawn Lewis
(CTO)Earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously Engineer at Google and Founder at Beep Networks.
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