Strategic Finance Lead, GTM Growth

Perplexity AI; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to help scale our consumer and enterprise businesses. You will partner with Marketing and Growth leaders to identify opportunities, understand customer economics, and translate investment decisions into measurable business results.

This hands-on role builds marketing-finance capabilities and shapes how we acquire customers and generate enterprise pipeline. You will work with business leaders and cross-functional teams, with room for your scope to

Qualifications

• Must understand customer economics and how marketing spend translates to revenue.
• Experience building and evaluating growth investments across CAC, LTV, and payback.
• Strong financial modeling and data analysis skills for business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale growth investment models and forecasts.
• Partner with Marketing and Growth to identify opportunities and resource needs.
• Own customer economics analysis to guide acquisition, retention, and enterprise pipeline.
• Translate strategic plans into actionable spending and performance targets.

Skills

Customer economics

CAC/LTV/payback

Financial modeling

Growth analytics

Cross-functional

AI tooling

SQL

Excel

Power BI

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Perplexity AI is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to help scale our consumer and enterprise businesses. You will partner with Marketing and Growth leaders to identify opportunities, understand customer economics, and translate investment decisions into measurable business results.

This hands-on role builds marketing-finance capabilities and shapes how we acquire customers and generate enterprise pipeline. You will work with business leaders and cross-functional teams, with room for your scope to