Strategic Finance Lead, Glean

$155-170k

Excel
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

Glean

Enterprise search and knowledge management

Job no longer available

Glean

Enterprise search and knowledge management

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivitySaaS

Job no longer available

$155-170k

Excel
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivitySaaS

Company mission

To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.

Role

Who you are

  • An ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans
  • Expert financial modeling experience with strong attention to detail
  • Ability to quickly identify and methodically resolve potential road-blocks
  • Excellent presentation and writing skills and the ability to clearly communicate messages that link business issues, financial results, and strategy at the executive level
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, private equity, FP&A, strategic finance, or related fields — preferably for a B2B and/or SaaS business
  • Prior FP&A experience leading annual / semi-annual planning cycles is a major plus
  • Willingness to relocate to the Bay Area and work 3 days a week out of our Palo Alto office

What the job involves

  • The Strategic Finance team at Glean is dedicated to addressing some of the company's most critical business challenges.
  • This team is in charge of managing the company's budget, driving quarterly and annual planning processes, efficiently allocating and deploying the company's resources, conducting financial analyses in collaboration with all departments across the company, owning financial planning systems, and playing a crucial role in investor relations and treasury
  • This role will be specifically focused on FP&A but will have exposure to all aspects of Strategic Finance.
  • The role requires someone who is highly analytical and strategic, an excellent communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity
  • You’ll have substantial exposure to senior leadership, focus on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business
  • As the FP&A lead on Glean’s Strategic Finance team, you will own our company model and lead our consolidated strategic and financial planning processes
  • Serve as a thought partner to cross-functional stakeholders and ensure they have the necessary resource allocations to invest in key investments/initiatives
  • Drive alignment on KPIs and key metrics to track team-specific and company-wide trends, growth initiatives, business performance, and provide visibility into operating performance
  • Understand and analyze the levers that drive Glean’s long-term financial trajectory
  • Implement a best-in-class planning system that will scale
  • Assist with capital planning efforts, corporate finance, and investor relations
  • Partner with the accounting team to make sure forecasts are aligned with historical financials
  • Prepare presentations and key reporting to the Board of Directors and Executive Team

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Insights

Top investors

44% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
  • Competitive compensation and stock options
  • 401k contribution
  • Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
  • Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
  • Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
  • Transparent culture
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jun 2025

$150m

SERIES F

Sep 2024

$260m

SERIES E

Total funding: $805m

Our take

Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.

With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.

It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.

That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.

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Steph

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