Senior Strategic Finanace Associate

Mixpanel; Palmdale (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,500 - 217,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care

Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Job summary

Mixpanel is looking for a Senior Strategic Finance Associate to join its Financial Planning and Analysis team. This hybrid role involves serving as a domain owner, advising on financial strategies, and enhancing planning processes. Candidates should have extensive FP&A experience, strong modeling skills, and the ability to formulate actionable insights.

The position also includes a competitive compensation package ranging from $160,500 to $217,500, along with comprehensive benefits. This is an opportunity to make an impact in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS.
• Demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end‑to‑end.
• Proven ability to influence decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain.
• Define the financial strategy and validate assumptions with business partners.
• Build business cases for major investments.

Skills

Financial modeling skills

SQL skills

Communication skills

Understanding of SaaS unit economics

Education

BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field

Tools

BI tools

FP&A platforms

ERP systems

Job description

Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Senior Strategic Finance Associate to serve as a domain owner within its Financial Planning and Analysis team.

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI‑first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry‑leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust.

Must be located in: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles / Orange County, San Diego, New York City, Seattle, Austin, or Denver

About the Role

This is a hybrid role based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Lead to serve as a domain owner within our Financial Planning and Analysis team. This role is a trusted advisor to functional leaders across the business, owning the end‑to‑end financial planning process for a major domain and driving the analytical rigor that shapes leadership decisions. A successful candidate will bring deep FP&A expertise, strong business partnership instincts, and the ability to design scalable planning processes—not just execute within them.

About the Team

The FP&A team enables Mixpanel's ongoing financial success. Doing so means creating visibility into our financial outcomes by running and improving tight financial reporting processes with all members of executive leadership. It means using these processes coupled with analytical prowess and strong communication skills to deliver keen insights upon which strategic decisions will be made. It means identifying key trends to support these decisions with constantly improving financial models. Through this, the FP&A team guides the company through financial hurdles, fuels growth opportunities, and ultimately drives long‑term success.

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end financial planning process for a major domain (GTM, R&D, or G&A) — from brief to delivery — setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms that others follow.
• Define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
• Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second‑order effects — giving leadership the analytical foundation to make high‑confidence decisions.
• Design and improve planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams and raise the quality of financial outputs org‑wide.
• Lead cross‑functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives tailored to each audience.
• Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions — acting as a cultural anchor for data‑driven decision‑making.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• 5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, ideally in high‑growth SaaS; demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end‑to‑end.
• Proven ability to design planning processes and frameworks — not just operate within them — and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority.
• Expert‑level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver‑based forecasting, 3‑statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis.
• Deep expertise across multiple planning domains (GTM, R&D, G&A); experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream.
• Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences.
• BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA a plus.

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.

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 U.S. 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.

$160,500 - $217,500 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 U.S. 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.