Director, Strategic Finance

Coda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Life insurance

RRSP matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays & floating days

Wellness stipends

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Job summary

Superhuman is seeking a Director of BU Finance to lead finance partnership across Mail, Docs, Go, and Agents. You will partner with BU leaders to translate strategies into financial plans, evaluate growth opportunities, and guide resource decisions.

You’ll build and develop the BU Finance team, standardize planning and performance practices, and ensure finance support is tailored to each unit’s needs. You will connect BU results to the company outlook and drive opportunities, risks, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic finance experience with business partnering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Finance/Math/Stats/Engineering/CS or equivalent.
• Experience leading and developing finance professionals.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and align functions.
• Strong financial judgment and advanced modeling (production economics, forecasting, scenario analysis).
• Ability to set direction and drive complex workstreams in a fast-paced setting.
• Experience with large datasets; SQL, Python, or R preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate BU strategies into financial plans with leadership.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across BUs.
• Oversee P&L narratives and metrics across BUs.
• Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews comparing plan vs forecast.
• Evaluate new products, launches, and growth initiatives.
• Lead scenario analysis and investment evaluations across functions to aid leadership.
• Partner with GTM, Functional, and Corporate Finance to align revenue assumptions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of four, establishing consistent standards.
• Use AI and automation to improve research, analysis, and workflows.

Skills

Strategic finance

Investment banking

Consulting

Leadership

Modeling skills

SQL/Python/R

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics/Finance/Math/Stats/Engineering/CS

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time and in‑person collaboration that fosters trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. Check out the Ways to Working blog to learn more.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Superhuman Docs' collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Director of BU Finance to lead finance partnership across all of Superhuman’s business units: Mail, Docs, Go, and Agents. You’ll work with business unit leaders to translate their strategies into financial plans, evaluate growth and investment opportunities, and guide resource decisions.

You’ll lead and develop the BU Finance team, building consistent planning and performance practices across the business units while ensuring each team gets finance support tailored to its needs. You’ll connect BU plans and results to the company outlook and help leaders act on the opportunities, risks, and trade‑offs shaping the business.

• Partner with BU leaders to translate business strategy into financial plans, ensuring investments, staffing, and operating priorities align with BU goals and company targets.

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning across the business units, including personnel, vendor, and investment assumptions.

• Oversee Product P&L narratives and key metrics across the business units, connecting BU plans and results to the company outlook.

• Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, explaining performance against plan and forecast, assessing strategic initiatives, surfacing risks and opportunities, and recommending actions.

• Guide evaluation of new products, launches, and growth initiatives from concept through post‑launch review, including market opportunity, adoption, revenue potential, costs, and expected returns.

• Lead scenario analysis and investment evaluations across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, channels, and customer segments to help leaders make resource trade‑offs.

• Partner with GTM Finance, Functional Finance, and Corporate Finance to align revenue assumptions, resource plans, financial definitions, and business unit impacts.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of four, setting priorities and ownership, assigning BU coverage, and establishing consistent standards for analysis and business partnership.

• Use AI and automation to improve research, analysis, model review, scenario development, and team workflows, validating outputs with sound judgment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a related field, including significant experience partnering with business leaders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Math, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Experience leading, coaching, and developing finance professionals, including managers or senior individual contributors.

• A track record of influencing senior leaders, building alignment across functions, and helping teams make decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.

• Strong financial judgment and advanced modeling skills, including experience with product economics, revenue forecasting, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation.

• Able to set direction for a team, prioritize across competing needs, and drive complex workstreams to completion in a fast‑paced environment.

• Experience working with complex models and large datasets; SQL, Python, or R experience preferred.

Compensation and Benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)

• Disability and life insurance options

• 401(k) and RRSP matching

• Paid parental leave

• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time

• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)

• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market‑based approach to compensation, so base pay may vary by location. We categorize our US locations into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

Zone 1: $266,000 - $350,000

For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply— especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E‑Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).