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Strategic Finance Lead - GTM

Perplexity· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York City)$190k - $240k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Strategic Finance Lead to scale Perplexity’s consumer and enterprise businesses, partnering with Marketing and Growth to identify growth opportunities, understand customer economics, and turn investments into measurable results. Hands-on IC with potential to expand scope as the company grows.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the customer economics and investment recommendations that guide how we acquire and retain customers, grow enterprise pipeline, and scale marketing spend. Use CAC, LTV, and payback to evaluate investment returns.
  • Partner with Marketing and Growth leaders to build and scale growth initiatives, identify constraints, and determine the resources and changes needed to produce more business.
  • Build models and analyses to guide growth investments, translate plans into resource requirements and spending forecasts, and track commitments as plans evolve.
  • Collaborate with data and business partners to strengthen measurement and attribution, connecting marketing activity to business outcomes. Help teams make investment decisions with incomplete information, making assumptions explicit and using results to refine where we invest.
  • Take ownership of emerging strategic questions across GTM, bringing clear recommendations and adapting as priorities change.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in strategic finance, business operations, growth analytics, or a related field, with experience supporting growth-oriented decisions.
  • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with a deep understanding of customer economics and investment returns.
  • Ability to work directly with data and build financial models, using AI tools to accelerate analysis and improve workflows. Validate outputs, interrogate assumptions, and explain the business logic behind recommendations.
  • Experience making growth investment decisions across both consumer or self-serve acquisition and enterprise demand generation, with a strong understanding of customer economics and the connection between marketing activity, pipeline, and bookings.
  • Track record of independently identifying growth opportunities, building the analysis needed to act, and working with partners to implement decisions and learn from results.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust, challenge assumptions constructively, and work across teams.

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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