Director of Strategic Finance

Scribe • San Francisco, CA

2d • $220,000 - $260,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role sits at the center of how Scribe plans, invests, and scales. As Director of Finance, you’ll own much of the company’s financial planning and analysis muscle, ensuring the business is making clear, disciplined decisions as we rapidly scale. You’ll be responsible for the full lifecycle of planning — from building the annual operating plan and forecasts to ensuring they remain accurate over time. This means holding teams accountable to performance, driving re-forecasting when reality diverges from plan, and helping leadership understand the tradeoffs behind their choices. Finance is expected to be the arbiter of truth, and this role plays a central part in making sure the organization is operating from a single, trusted financial view. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You’ll work closely with leaders across GTM, Accounting, and Operations to translate strategy into execution, surface risks and opportunities, and force clarity when alignment stalls. While the role does not start with a large team, it carries broad influence, visibility, and responsibility — and offers the opportunity to shape how finance operates as the company scales. In your first 3–12 months at Scribe, you will: Drive the planning process, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning, and hold teams accountable when performance diverges from plan Lead the development and maintenance of financial models to support strategic decision-making, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives Identify and apply opportunities for AI and automation across finance to improve forecasting accuracy, decision speed, and how insights are delivered to the business Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate financial insight into action by surfacing tradeoffs, recommending paths forward, and pushing decisions to be made when ambiguity or misalignment persists Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps on revenue forecasting, capacity planning, and unit economics to ensure GTM plans are grounded in financial reality Enhance existing financial processes and systems to streamline operations and improve data accuracy, fostering a culture of accountability and performance; implementing planning tools, systems, and processes as scale demands Success in this role looks like better decisions across the company: clearer plans, fewer surprises, stronger alignment, and leadership confident in where and how to invest.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of progressive finance experience with a background in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, and/or PE
• You’ve owned financial planning at a high-growth company and are comfortable being accountable for keeping plans accurate as the business evolves
• You’re comfortable taking a point of view in ambiguity — synthesizing messy inputs, setting assumptions, and driving alignment
• You consistently push beyond reporting to answer the “so what” and influence how the business prioritizes and invests
• You’re deeply hands-on and builder-minded, comfortable building models, processes, and structure from scratch
• You partner effectively with GTM leaders, understanding how sales, marketing, and revenue dynamics translate into financial outcomes
• You operate with ownership and bias to action, leading cross-functional initiatives and communicating complex ideas clearly
• Experience building and leading teams in fast-paced startup environments

Responsibilities

• Drive the planning process, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning, and hold teams accountable when performance diverges from plan
• Lead the development and maintenance of financial models to support strategic decision-making, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives
• Identify and apply opportunities for AI and automation across finance to improve forecasting accuracy, decision speed, and how insights are delivered to the business
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate financial insight into action by surfacing tradeoffs, recommending paths forward, and pushing decisions to be made when ambiguity or misalignment persists
• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps on revenue forecasting, capacity planning, and unit economics to ensure GTM plans are grounded in financial reality
• Enhance existing financial processes and systems to streamline operations and improve data accuracy, fostering a culture of accountability and performance; implementing planning tools, systems, and processes as scale demands

Benefits

• Incredible teammates: Work alongside some of the nicest and smartest people you’ll ever meet.
• Ownership mindset: We’re all owners here, literally. Employees receive equity in Scribe, sharing in the company’s long-term success.
• Comprehensive coverage: We offer health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Time to recharge: Flexible paid time off, plus company holidays to rest and reset.
• Retirement planning: Employees can contribute to a 401(k) plan to help plan for their future.
• Support for growing families. Paid parental leave to help you care for and bond with your growing family.
• Lunch, on us: SF-based employees receive daily catered lunches at our office.
• Easy commutes: Commuter benefits for our office-based team, make getting to and from HQ simpler.
• Level up your home office: Remote? Hybrid? Wherever you work, we’ll support your setup with a home office stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed