Hiring: Director, FP&A, R&D Company: EvenUp Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:06:44 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : BigQuery, CFA, LLM, Microsoft Excel, R, SQL, SaaS, dbt About the job Experience: •8+ years in FP&A / corporate finance, with meaningful time supporting R&D, Engineering, or a technical/product org. Required Skills: •Partner day to day with engineering, product, and data leaders as their trusted finance counterpart. •Build the analyses that shape build-vs-buy, pricing, and infrastructure decisions. •Support foundation-model and cloud vendor negotiations with data-backed positions. •Deliver clear, concise reporting and variance commentary to the CFO, FP&A leadership, and the board. •Own the R&D budget, forecast, and headcount plan across Engineering, Product, and Data/ML. Drive the re-forecast cycle and keep hiring plans tied to output and priorities. •Make LLM/inference and cloud compute cost a first-class, closely monitored metric. Build the model that tracks unit costs; monitor spend daily; and partner with engineering to find and defend efficiency. This is not a monthly-close afterthought, it's a core operating metric of the business. •Own the connection between usage, inference cost, and gross margin. Model the margin impact of new products, pricing changes, and model/infrastructure choices, and make the tradeoffs legible to leadership. •Bring financial rigor to major R&D spend decisions including foundation-model and API contracts, cloud commitments, data, and dev tooling, including negotiation support and ROI cases. Compensation: •$176,000 - $250,000 / year •Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!