Strategic Finance Manager
About the role
The Company
We are a global leader in publishing, messaging, and commerce software—building the operating system for the open web. With a strong commitment to open source, we have deep roots in the platform that powers our business and 43% of all sites on the worldwide web. Our goal is to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so that anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source.
In a fast-paced, complex market, we own a diverse set of assets, deploy numerous business models, and offer scalability from B2C to SMB and Enterprise customers. Our brands include website building and cloud hosting (WordPress.com), ecommerce and fintech (WooCommerce), Enterprise SaaS (WordPress VIP), and infrastructure hosting, spanning customer segments that include SMB, online merchants, enterprise, government, and even consumer. In our incubator, we also support a broad set of new business start-ups that currently incorporate messaging, ads, podcasting, journaling, and social media.
The co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic is driving a growth and expansion strategy that is still in its early days, with a massive addressable market and exceptional upside. Today, we manage the internet properties for renowned organizations such as Salesforce, Porsche, Meta, Disney, and NASA. Over 4 million online stores run on WooCommerce, which accounts for 33% of all online stores globally, and more than 1 billion people use our products each month. Automattic has established itself as a pivotal player in the digital landscape.
We are a remote-based company with 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Unlike many companies, we are and always will be 100% remote. This means that you can work from anywhere in the world, in any time zone, leveraging collaboration tools and asynchronous communication.
Automattic’s story would not be complete without mentioning our focus on mergers and acquisitions. Over the past 17 years, we have acquired 35 companies, including some that now represent some of Automattic’s largest business units and growth drivers.
Our company is backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, spanning mutual funds, venture capital, sovereign wealth, and strategics.
Our Board includes Sue Decker, who also serves on the boards of Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, and Vox Media, and Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general in the US Army, who also serves as a Trustee for Fidelity Investments. Automattic is profitable, generates positive cash flow, and aggressively invests in future growth. It is a great place to build a career, learn, and contribute!
The Opportunity
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Manager. You will partner with GMs and stakeholders across Automattic for Agencies, and other properties in the Automattic portfolio, to turn numbers into decisions. You will build the models, run the reviews, and help leaders make the bets that shape the business and facilitate growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead deep dives on revenue and unit economics to identify growth opportunities, risks, and experiments that improve accuracy and business outcomes.
- Track the KPIs that matter, diagnose what is driving them, and deliver clear recommendations to leaders.
- Own the monthly business reviews and QBR materials for the BUs you support, including the r