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# Senior Associate, FP&A at Paraform

- **Company:** Paraform
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/8cbdcfbd-5cd0-4090-916a-f4c4cd6b2940

## Job description

We're hiring a Senior Associate, FP&A to be the analyst behind our marketplace levers — recruiter incentives and retainers, pricing and take rate, unit economics, and vertical P&Ls. You'll run the monthly budget vs. actuals review, maintain the operating model with our VP Finance, and be the analytical partner leadership leans on for pricing and incentive decisions. You'll report to our VP Finance and work closely with our accounting team. This is a builder role. Marketplace economics are more interesting than a standard SaaS P&L — take rates, recruiter supply, roles posted, time-to-hire, and placement timing all drive revenue — and you'll build the analysis the company runs on.

## What you'll do

- Maintain the operating model with the VP Finance. Keep the drivers current — revenue, GMV, headcount, OpEx — and support the annual plan and quarterly reforecasts.
- Model marketplace levers. Recruiter incentives and retainers, pricing and take rate, and fee structures — build the analysis behind each decision and track what happens after it ships.
- Own unit economics. GMV, net revenue, take rate, recruiter payouts, cohort behavior, LTV:CAC, and payback — the numbers leadership makes pricing and incentive calls on.
- Run budget vs. actuals. Monthly BvA and department-level flux review with our accounting team, with clear variance explanations for leadership.
- Build the metrics layer. Partner with RevOps and BizOps to define metrics and build the dashboards leadership uses every week.
- Automate with AI. We use AI heavily across the company and expect finance to as well — recurring reporting shouldn't be manual.

## What we're looking for

- 3–5 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, PE, or top-tier consulting, with at least 1–2 years building models an operating team actually used.
- Expert spreadsheet modeling — three-statement, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analysis.
- Comfortable presenting numbers to executives and turning an ambiguous question into a clear answer.
- High ownership, low ego, and fast. Your work goes straight to the exec team and board.
- Bonus: experience at a marketplace, fintech, or usage-based business; a Series B–C fundraise; hands-on with a planning tool (Pigment, Anaplan) or SQL/BI (Metabase, Looker).

The ideal candidate brings

- Experience in multi-sided / marketplace businesses
- Has owned analysis of a marketing subsidy or incentive program
- Has built the take-rate or pricing model at a marketplace and defended it to leadership
- Has run a monthly BvA where department leads had to explain their variances to them
- Has worked from raw transaction data (SQL or exports), not just a finance system's outputs
- Has gone through a raise on the company side: model, data room, diligence questions

## About Paraform

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace, modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We connect companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately. We believe recruiting works best when human judgment is paired with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors, and build the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success. Industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch hire through Paraform, and we grew revenue 8× last year. We're backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more. Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. For more on where we're headed, read our [company vision](https://www.paraform.com/blog/the-talent-company).

## About Paraform

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and custom AI agents collaborate to help companies fill critical roles faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $65M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John and Jeff (co-founders; full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet Marketplace Platforms, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth startups to category-leading enterprises (e.g., Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, Decagon, Cognition, Thomson Reuters); also serves SMB and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: “Building the talent infrastructure of the 22nd century” – making hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button.

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Hiring Platform**: Combines a marketplace of specialized expert recruiters with proprietary AI agents that learn from hiring outcomes to surface and match the best candidates. Includes tools for sourcing, candidate matching, CRM, notetaking, scheduling, and back-office support.
- **Recruiter Marketplace**: Connects companies with vetted recruiters who have deep domain networks; recruiters get access to high-quality clients, AI tools, and business development support.
- **AI Recruiting Agents**: Custom AI agents that act on matching intelligence – running workflows, surfacing candidates, and automating follow-ups.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $65M (Series B announced March 2026)
- **Key Metrics**: 1,000+ customer companies; 90 team members; recruiters on the platform have earned over $50M to date; average candidate hired earns ~$260K/year (total comp often $300K–$400K).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis, A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures; angel investors include CTO of Palantir, co-founders of Canva and YouTube, COO of Stripe, President of Shopify, CPO of Uber.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth (1,000+ companies), high recruiter earnings (some exceed $300K/month, $1M+/year), expansion into verticals with acute talent scarcity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary data on hiring outcomes that compounds with every placement – creating signals no other platform has.
- **Human + AI Synergy**: AI agents handle repetitive tasks and pattern matching, while expert recruiters provide contextual insight (e.g., motivation, culture fit) that AI cannot easily infer.
- **Network Effects**: More recruiters attract more companies, which generate more data and better matches, reinforcing the platform’s intelligence.
- **Speed**: Companies typically meet their eventual hire within ~12 days, significantly faster than traditional processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the marketplace**: Grow both customer and recruiter bases rapidly.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Invest in models that learn from real hiring outcomes and expand the agentic platform.
- **Vertical expansion**: Target talent-scarce verticals (engineering, GTM, finance, legal) and build infrastructure for modern, outcome-driven hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer $140K–$290K, Applied ML Engineer $190K–$240K, Product Manager $150K–$250K) plus meaningful equity.
- **Benefits**: 100% healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) with dependent plans; 401k; flexible PTO; daily catered meals by an in-house chef; Bay Club gym membership; Ramp corporate card; annual company offsites (e.g., Hawaii, Tokyo, Sydney, New York).
- **Office Policy**: In-person at San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as “San Francisco” with no explicit remote option.
- **Culture**: “We hire the best and treat them accordingly” – ownership mindset, high autonomy, focus on impact.

## Sources
1. [paraform.com/about](https://www.paraform.com/about)
2. [paraform.com/careers](https://www.paraform.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paraformxyz)
4. [paraform.com/blog/series-b](https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-b)
5. [paraform.com](https://www.paraform.com/)

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