About this role
ABOUT US
At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
What you’ll do
As our FP&A Lead, you'll drive the processes and frameworks that connect our financial plan to company strategy, partnering cross-functionally to drive clarity on performance, resource allocation, and long-range trajectory. This is a high-ownership IC role for a builder who is energized by ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a Series E AI company understands its own business.
- Planning and Forecasting: Develop and drive our corporate financial planning processes end-to-end, including long range planning, annual planning, and rolling forecasts.
- Performance Reporting and Insights: Own the monthly and quarterly close cycle from an FP&A perspective, including budget vs. actuals, variance commentary, management reporting packages, and board and investor reporting materials. Define and track the KPIs that reflect business health, surfacing risks and opportunities proactively. Drive progress toward always-on reporting.
- Systems and Infrastructure: Drive and evolve our FP&A toolset, including modern planning software, BI integrations, and the underlying data model that supports scalable reporting. Build and document repeatable processes, templates, and operating cadences that will scale as we grow.
- Cross Functional Partnership: Drive cross-functional alignment on goals, building stakeholder buy-in, and enabling effective decision-making and execution across the organization. Partner with Accounting to ensure the integrity of actuals flowing into FP&A models.
- Insights: Deliver actionable performance insights by identifying key business drivers, opportunities, and risks, and translating them into recommendations that improve efficiency, productivity, and execution.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 8+ years of total experience, including meaningful time in corporat