As the founding member of the strategic finance function, this is a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in driving the company planning and forecasting process, performing financial analyses, and providing insights. You will be responsible for designing and implementing models and impact Descript’s overall growth strategy.
The role is a unique combination of both finance and data analytics and requires someone who is highly analytical and strategic, an excellent communicator, and is comfortable with ambiguity.
The right candidate has the ability to self-serve his/her own data, identify and measure business and growth drivers and provide insights for a broader audience. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, building reporting dashboards,, deriving insights from existing datasets, defining success metrics for new initiatives, building queries to enable more accurate forecasting. You will get to work cross-functionally with product, data science, marketing, and engineering teams, have substantial exposure to senior leadership, work on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business.
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The base salary range for this role is. $150,000 - $177,000. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 140 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Montreal, and are open to folks working remotely between PT and ET time zones. Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.