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title: 'Senior Finance Manager at Placer.ai'
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# Senior Finance Manager at Placer.ai

- **Company:** Placer.ai
- **Location:** Colombia
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://placer.ai/company/we-are-hiring/?gh_jid=8011369003

## Job description

## ABOUT PLACER.AI:

Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

## SUMMARY:

The Senior Finance Manager drives financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis for Placer's business, and partners closely with R&D and product teams to create financial insights to influence business actions. Partnering closely with the SVP of Finance, you will build the models and narratives that shape how the company plans, and you will influence decisions in support of those plans.

This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving Finance team. You will operate with significant autonomy, make judgment calls where data is incomplete, and be a person leaders work with directly for financial insights.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Support all financial planning and forecasting across the P&L, balance sheet, and company cash flows including annual, quarterly, monthly and ad-hoc cycles.
- Partner closely with the R&D and product teams to drive actions influenced by your financial insights
- Create forecasting models for on going and ad-hoc analyses.
- Provide in depth analysis of company performance, key KPIs, budget-to-actuals, flux, and key financial analyses
- Work closely with the Finance and Accounting teams in partnership with Placer business and support teams to track, adjust, monitor, fine-tune and continually improve the financial and business processes. annual and monthly budgets.
- Develop, maintain and improve the company’s financial models.
- Cross-departmental insights for the operations, marketing, sales development and sales teams to improve internal reporting processes, departmental budgets and non-financial KPIs.
- Identify where improved controls are needed, design and test them, and work cross-functionally to embed them in the teams that operate them
- Lead cross-functional projects end to end, including projects that may fall  outside your direct scope, requiring you to influence team members not in your direct reporting chain to deliver results on time and effectively.

## REQUIREMENTS:

- 8+ years of experience in finance, financial modeling and interpreting financial statements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field
- A natural partner: you build trust with partner teams and executive stakeholders with an ability to turn differing views into shared decisions
- Can operate quickly with the skills to data-mine, organize, and gain insights from raw financial information, customer anecdotes and partner expertise.
- Knowledge of financial reporting, accounting standards and the budgeting process across a high-growth organization
- Able to proactively communicate effectively across departments in a remote environment and accustomed to working towards deliverable deadlines
- An expert in Excel and Google Sheets, specifically in regards to financial modeling
- Able to work independently and fully-remote while collaborating in a small team environment and cross functionally
- Ability to manage multiple projects & priorities, seamlessly moving between strategy & execution
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a drive to learn and grow
- Experience with B2B SaaS / data subscription business model(s) is highly preferred

## NICE TO HAVES:

- Demonstrated use of AI tools to work more efficiently—whether professionally or personally—and a curiosity for finding new ways to apply them.
- Comfort integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows to boost productivity, quality, and output.

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI?

- Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
- Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
- Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
- Fully remote

## NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER

- [About Placer.ai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwJVdKq-mo&list=PLVpWfXWcX_ax43WxXX-BII6Ndg8vQ5ced&index=1)
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/placer-ai-a-location-analytics-startup-finds-100m-at-a-1b-valuation/
- See our data in action at [The Anchor](https://www.placer.ai/anchor)
- [Placer.ai in the news](https://www.placer.ai/resources/press/)
- [Video: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwJVdKq-mo)

Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a [drug-free workplace](http://www.placer.ai/company/we-are-hiring/drug-policy) and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

## About Placer.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Placer.ai provides location intelligence and foot traffic data software that helps businesses in retail, real estate, hospitality, and civic sectors understand offline visitation patterns and consumer behavior.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Venture-backed, $301M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Cruz, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Noam Ben-Zvi (CEO), Zohar Bar-Yehuda (Data Scientist), Oded Fossfeld (CTO), Ofir Lemel (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Location analytics, foot traffic data, market intelligence, commercial real estate, retail, hospitality, CPG, economic development
- **Target customers**: B2B – commercial real estate firms, retailers, restaurants, entertainment venues, CPG brands, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, civic/government entities
- **Mission / purpose**: “Making Sense of the Physical World” – empowering organizations to understand what’s really happening in physical locations and optimize decision-making.

## Products & Services
- **Placer.ai Platform**: A SaaS-based location analytics dashboard offering property-level reports, audience insights, trade area analysis, demographic and psychographic data, crime trends, planned development, and competitive benchmarking.
- **API (Placer API / PAPI)**: Programmatic access to foot traffic and location data for integration into custom tech stacks and analytics workflows.
- **Feeds**: Automated data exports for enterprise clients needing recurring, structured location data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $100M ARR (achieved in 2024) [placer.ai about page](https://www.placer.ai/company/about-us)
- **Total Funding**: $301M across 8 rounds, including a $75M venture round in July 2024 and a $12M Series A in 2020 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/placer)
- **Notable Investors**: Not publicly listed by name; institutional venture capital firms participated in all rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 4,000 customers; expanded data layers beyond foot traffic (crime, development, demographics); operates in 27 countries and employs 544 people; 16 active job postings with a quarterly increase of 6.7% [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/placer)

## Competitive Advantages
- Proprietary, privacy-preserving data panel with claimed +92% accuracy
- High-cardinality categorization across hundreds of property types and venues
- Near-real time visitation tracking and historical trend analysis
- Broadest industry coverage (retail, CRE, healthcare, finance, civic, entertainment, CPG)
- Strong talent pool from elite Israeli intelligence units (Unit 8200) and top tech companies (Similarweb, CoStar, Salesforce)

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening data layers beyond foot traffic (crime, climate, development, consumer expenditure)
- Expanding into new verticals such as healthcare, finance, and civic planning
- Building GenAI solutions (e.g., Principal Engineer, GenAI Solutions role) to accelerate insight generation
- Continuing to scale self-service platform while serving enterprise clients with custom API and feed integrations

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “work with the best in the industry, solve complicated problems, and have fun” [careers page](https://www.placer.ai/company/career). LinkedIn rating: 3.6/5 (238 reviews). Work-Life Balance 3.7, Compensation 3.6, Culture 3.4, Career 3.3.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Office-first presence in Santa Cruz, Los Altos, Covina (California) and Tel Aviv (Israel). No explicit remote-first policy; many roles likely require some office presence.
- **Engineering & Data Science**: Heavy investment in big data, GenAI, and location intelligence; tech stack includes Python, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes, React, Scala, among others. Talent sourced from elite military tech units and companies like Similarweb, CARTO, and Gong.
- **Benefits**: Healthcare coverage with network rates mentioned; standard startup perks for US and Israel offices.

## Sources
1. [Placer.ai – Company Overview](https://www.placer.ai/)
2. [Placer.ai – About Us / Mission](https://www.placer.ai/company/about-us)
3. [Placer.ai – Careers](https://www.placer.ai/company/career)
4. [Placer.ai – LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/placer)

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