--- title: 'Senior Director, Corporate FP&A at Mixpanel' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-director-corporate-fp-a-mixpanel-san-francisco-f14wx4jkhkp8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Senior Director, Corporate FP&A at Mixpanel - **Company:** Mixpanel - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $273k–$409k - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mixpanel/jobs/8359615 ## Job description ## About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at [mixpanel.com](https://mixpanel.com/home/). ## About the Team This role sits at the center of Mixpanel’s financial decision making: owning the corporate models, budgets and KPIs that inform the CEO, CFO, and Board of Directors. You will partner across the Finance organization and cross-functionally with executive leadership to deliver insight that shapes strategy, resource allocation, and performance management. ## About the Role The Senior Director Corporate FP&A will be a strategic partner to the CFO and executive team driving scalable growth by connecting financial forecasting with deep data insights and operational efficiency. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will lead Mixpanel’s FP&A, decision support, and reporting functions, owning the financial narrative that guides how we invest, scale, and win in the market. You will partner closely with the executive team, department heads, and key stakeholders to develop and implement short- and long-term financial models and strategies that align with the company’s strategic and financial objectives. This individual will be a senior leader who is a change agent and builder. You will design the processes and frameworks that don't yet exist or aren’t scalable today, not just operate inside the ones that do. This role will also champion the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics within Corporate FP&A to improve forecast accuracy, accelerate reporting cycles, and free capacity for higher‑value strategic work. ## Responsibilities - Lead company-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, aligning top-down financial targets with bottoms-up functional plans, strategic priorities, and operating accountability. - Own and continuously improve the corporate financial model, including revenue, gross margin, operating expense, headcount, cash flow, scenario planning, and long-range projections. - Establish a disciplined rolling forecast and business review cadence, providing leadership with timely visibility into performance, risks, opportunities, forecast accuracy, and required actions. - Develop executive, Board, investor, and lender reporting packages that clearly communicate financial results, business drivers, outlook, key risks, and strategic tradeoffs. - Define, standardize, and govern key financial and operating metrics, ensuring consistent KPI definitions, reporting integrity, and clear source-of-truth ownership across the business. - Partner with leaders across GTM, Product, Engineering, G&A, and People to support resource allocation, investment decisions, hiring plans, headcount governance, and operating discipline. - Deliver deep-dive analysis on revenue drivers, expense optimization, and overall risk/opportunity management. - Provide financial analysis and decision support for strategic initiatives, including new product launches, pricing and packaging, international expansion, business model evolution, M&A, and major investment decisions. - Build and scale FP&A processes, systems, dashboards, automation, and self-service reporting capabilities, leveraging BI, AI, and workflow tools to improve speed, accuracy, and decision quality. - Champion an AI‑first mindset within Corporate FP&A and share learnings across Finance. - Hire, manage, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, fostering a culture of rigorous analysis, business partnership, healthy challenge, and independent insight. - Contribute to global procurement strategy to optimize vendor management and drive cost efficiencies. We're Looking For Someone Who Has - 12+ years of progressive finance experience, including 5+ years in an executive leadership role within a high-growth SaaS or technology company. - Strong ability to translate business strategy into financial plans, drive forecasting rigor, and deliver actionable insights to influence executive decision-making. - Demonstrated track record of building and improving corporate planning processes, financial models, and reporting frameworks in a complex environment. - Deep understanding of financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, including driver‑based and scenario modelling. - Ability to gather, manipulate, and manage large datasets from multiple sources, understand complex data relationships, and draw conclusions that recommend the best course of action. - Direct people-management experience, with a track record of hiring and developing a strong finance function. - Clear, direct communication skills - comfortable turning complex financial analysis into a story a CFO can act on immediately. - A degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or equivalent experience. - Advanced skills in Excel/Sheets and financial modelling; experience with planning tools (e.g., Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive) and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) is a plus. #LI-Hybrid ## Compensation The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings [here](https://mxpnl.notion.site/Check-out-our-benefits-869112a6cabe4c81a2b9da99de28f636). Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information. Mixpanel Compensation Range $273,000—$409,000 USD ## Benefits and Perks - Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care - Mental Wellness Benefit - Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays - Enhanced Parental Leave - Volunteer Time Off - Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break *please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary* Culture Values - Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress. - Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes. - One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone. - Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. - Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star. - Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible. Why choose Mixpanel? We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building. ## About Mixpanel ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mixpanel provides an AI-first digital analytics platform that helps product, engineering, and growth teams understand user behavior, run experiments, and improve product adoption and retention. - **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn, valued at over $1 billion as of 2021) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2009 - **Founders**: Suhail Doshi, Tim Trefren ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Product Analytics, Digital Analytics, Software Development - **Target customers**: B2B; primarily Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data teams at mid-market to enterprise companies - **Mission statement**: To help the world learn from its data and solve big problems, helping companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. ## Products & Services - **Mixpanel AI**: Proactive AI that surfaces insights, diagnoses problems, and recommends actions grounded in the customer's data. - **Product Analytics**: Event tracking, user segmentation, funnel analysis, retention analysis, and custom reports. - **Web Analytics**: Behavior tracking on websites with plain-language querying. - **Session Replay & Heatmaps**: Watch recordings of user sessions tied directly to analytics data to understand drop-offs and behavior. - **Experiments & Feature Flags**: A/B testing against product metrics and feature flag management from a single platform. - **Metric Trees**: A living map of KPIs and their drivers to align teams on what matters. - **Data Warehouse Connectors**: Sync data from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and other warehouses for unified analysis. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Over $1 billion (unicorn status reached in 2021) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $277.0M across 5 rounds; annual revenue estimated at $127.0M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, Keith Rabois - **Growth Signals**: Employs 396 people (+41.1% YoY); trusted by over 29,000 companies including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber; operates in 16 countries. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-First Platform**: Mixpanel AI proactively surfaces insights and diagnoses problems, reducing manual work and accelerating understanding. - **Performance at Scale**: Sub-second query times even at billions of events per month. - **Open Ecosystem**: Connects with existing stacks (BigQuery, Segment, reverse ETL tools) with no vendor lock-in. - **Enterprise-Ready**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA-ready, SSO/SAML, and audit logs with governance tools. - **Unified Product & Web Analytics**: Combines product analytics, web analytics, session replay, experimentation, and metric trees in one platform. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Integration**: Deepening AI capabilities across the platform to reduce manual work and speed up insight generation. - **Scalability & Performance**: Continuing to invest in infrastructure that handles massive data volumes with speed. - **Ecosystem Expansion**: Building more connectors and integrations to fit seamlessly into customer data stacks. - **Enterprise Growth**: Targeting larger enterprises with compliance, governance, and premium support offerings. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include being open, leading change, customer focus, results-oriented, and one team. Fosters a culture of belonging and psychological safety. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid model for most roles (San Francisco, New York, London, Barcelona, Bengaluru, etc.); some remote positions available (e.g., Finance, Legal roles). - **Benefits**: Competitive and equitable compensation; comprehensive benefits for holistic well-being; learning, mentorship, and advancement opportunities; annual company-wide retreat. - **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on bold bets, powerful simplicity, and innovation with insight; roles across AI, infrastructure, product platform, and query engineering. ## Sources 1. [mixpanel.com](https://mixpanel.com/home/) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mixpanel-inc-) 3. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mixpanel/jobs/7774151) 4. [comparably.com](https://www.comparably.com/companies/mixpanel/mission) 5. 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