Senior Manager, Engineering & Technology Finance

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Engineering & Technology Finance serves as a strategic partner to the CTO and Engineering leadership, enabling disciplined investment, financial transparency, and data-driven decision-making that bridges technical priorities with long-term corporate financial performance.

About the role

This role is based in San Jose, CA and reports to the Senior Director, Services Finance. It is a fully on-site, in-office role 5 days a week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner to Engineering and Finance leadership within a high-growth, innovation-driven organization.
• Support product roadmap and technical decision-making, evaluating trade-offs across cost, timeline, and resource allocation.
• Provide clear financial framing for complex engineering and technology decisions, enabling informed prioritization.
• Own annual budget, quarterly forecast, and long-range plan (LRP) for Engineering and Technology.
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models linking headcount, development cycles, and output to business outcomes.
• Ensure transparency into spend, pacing, and resource utilization, enabling proactive management of engineering investments.
• Support capital allocation decisions across competing engineering initiatives, optimizing returns and resource deployment.
• Develop ROI frameworks for new product development and technology investments, incorporating risk and uncertainty.
• Quantify the financial impact of engineering decisions on margin, cost structure, and scalability.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain Finance on product cost, cost-down initiatives, and design-to-cost programs.
• Ensure alignment between engineering investments and company-wide financial targets and performance objectives.
• Maintain strong financial controls and compliance, including adherence to accounting policies, capitalization guidelines, and internal governance standards.
• Drive improvements in financial systems, data quality, and reporting accuracy to enhance decision-making.
• Implement tools and process enhancements to reduce manual effort and increase analytical depth.
• Build scalable financial infrastructure to support rapid growth in engineering investment and organizational complexity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, with increasing scope and responsibility.
• Experience supporting Engineering, R&D, or Technology organizations in a financial capacity.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience in manufacturing or capital-intensive industries preferred.
• Proficiency with ERP and business intelligence tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Power BI, Tableau).

Competencies

• Influential leader, able to drive alignment and decisions across broad cross-functional stakeholders.
• Transparent communicator, operating with candor and sharing critical information proactively.
• Strategic thinker, comfortable navigating ambiguity and prioritizing effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly collaborative, partnering across functions to solve problems and benchmark best practices.
• Build scalable financial infrastructure to support rapid growth in engineering investment and organizational complexity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a large employer contribution, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, generous Mental Health Support services, Legal services, virtual Physical Therapy access, and Fertility & Family Forming benefits.
• Full-time role only: The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.
• Salary Ranges: $168,100.00 - $241,900.00.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $168,100.00 - $241,900.00.

Schedule

This is a fully on-site, in-office role 5 days a week.