Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the Job:

LaunchDarkly is hiring a Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as the single accountable leader for company-wide planning, forecasting, and financial decision support as the business scales from ~$200M ARR toward its next phase of growth.

This role exists to ensure LaunchDarkly has credible, forward-looking financial plans, fast and disciplined decision-making, and an FP&A function that operates as a strategic enabler of the business—not a reporting or budget-policing function.

Reporting to the CFO, the VP FP&A will independently own the annual plan, multi-year strategic plan, rolling forecasts, and executive financial narratives, while partnering deeply with GTM, Product, Engineering, and G&A leaders. This leader will materially improve the speed, clarity, and confidence with which the company makes resourcing, investment, and trade-off decisions.

The VP FP&A will:

• Operate FP&A with minimal executive oversight, while maintaining CFO-level rigor and judgment
• Deliver credible, decision-useful plans and forecasts that executives and the Board trust
• Enable faster, more confident decisions on hiring, spend, and investment trade-offs
• Establish FP&A as a true business partner to functional leaders, not a gatekeeper
• Build a scalable FP&A operating model suitable for a $200M–$400M+ ARR SaaS company

Responsibilities:

Company-Wide Planning & Forecasting Ownership

• Own the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, and long-range (multi-year) financial plan
• Ensure plans are internally consistent, strategically grounded, and clearly tied to operating drivers
• Translate strategy into actionable financial frameworks that guide execution over time

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted financial partner to GTM, Product, Engineering, and G&A leaders
• Improve decision velocity around hiring, spend, and investment while maintaining fiscal discipline
• Help functional leaders understand trade-offs, ROI, and second-order impacts of decisions

Executive & Board Financial Narrative

• Own the financial story presented to the executive team and Board
• Clearly articulate performance, risks, opportunities, and forward-looking implications while ensuring forecasts and plans are explainable, defensible, and decision-oriented
• In partnership with the CFO, play a leading role in preparation, analysis, and communication with analysts, banks, and potential investors.

Cost Management & Resource Allocation

• Build and maintain clear models for headcount, operating spend, and margin evolution
• Establish pragmatic guardrails that balance growth enablement with financial responsibility, including financial governance and decision support for purchasing and vendor spend
• Enable dynamic reallocation of resources as business priorities evolve

FP&A Operating Model & Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team (including existing team members)
• Expand capacity thoughtfully, including leveraging lower-cost regions where appropriate
• Establish clear FP&A processes that scale without adding unnecessary friction or bureaucracy

Partnership with Data & Analytics

• Partner closely with the Head of Data & Analytics to ensure plans and forecasts are grounded in trusted, watertight metrics
• Align planning models with certified definitions of ARR, NRR, GRR, FCF, and other company-critical metrics
• Help identify leading indicators that improve forecast accuracy and early-warning capabilities

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