Director, FP&A

As Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), you'll lead finance for GitLab's Research & Development (R&D) organization, our largest operating expense area. You'll be the strategic finance partner to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions. R&D builds our AI-powered development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) platform, which more than 100,000 organizations use. You'll connect investment in headcount, infrastructure, AI and cloud usage, and tooling to product outcomes, with clear measurement and reliable forecasts. You'll sit at the CTO's staff table, shape GitLab's long-range plan, and help leadership decide where to invest next, making R&D spend predictable.

Responsibilities

Serve as the finance advisor to the CTO and R&D leadership, holding partners accountable for execution against plan and connecting R&D priorities to company financial targets; Lead annual planning and rolling forecasts for R&D, owning the operating plan across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting and cloud, AI and LLM costs, software, and tooling; Build frameworks that connect R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes, evaluating business cases, AI capabilities, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor commitments; Define and track R&D efficiency metrics such as R&D spend as a percentage of revenue, cost per engineer, hosting cost per user, and AI inference cost per feature, and identify savings and reallocation opportunities; Partner with People and R&D leaders on hiring plans, location strategy, and organizational design, keeping headcount forecasts accurate and reconciled to actuals; Lead the AI transformation of R&D finance, rethinking planning, forecasting, and reporting workflows; Redesign FP&A processes, policies, and planning and reporting systems, working with Accounting on capitalized software, accruals, and allocations and with Procurement on process improvements; Lead and develop the R&D finance team by hiring, coaching, setting goals and priorities, and giving expert feedback

Requirements

Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization plus experience leading a team of analysts; A strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development; Experience leading process redesign and change in a finance team, including hands-on use of AI tools to improve how work gets done; Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives; Advanced financial modeling skills that follow industry best practices, expertise in Google Sheets, and hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools; A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; Comfort working remotely and asynchronously, and the ability to use GitLab

Nice to have

Enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) finance experience; Direct CTO partnership experience; NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, or SQL experience; Master of Business Administration (MBA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification

Benefits

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being; Flexible Paid Time Off; Team Member Resource Groups; Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Growth and Development Fund; Parental Leave