Senior Staff Finance Technical Program Manager

Life360

9d • $163,500 - $238,500 • Remote

About The Position

Life360 is seeking a Sr Staff Finance Technical Program Manager to own the delivery layer between the Finance Data and Systems (FDS) team and our Finance & Accounting stakeholders. This role involves partnering with various finance teams to understand workflows, gather requirements, and drive the delivery of technical initiatives, with a strong emphasis on AI-enablement. The position is process-management focused, requiring coordination across teams, integration of work streams, and acting as a liaison to keep initiatives moving and stakeholders aligned. The role also contributes to product definition by identifying opportunities and translating them into requirements for the FDS team. The role reports to the Director of Finance Data and Systems and supports the FDS team, which manages the Finance Data Warehouse, Netsuite ERP, and other ancillary systems. This is a remote-first position within the US.

Requirements

• CPA, CMA, or equivalent credential with direct audit, controllership, or Finance & Accounting experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Finance & Accounting across month-end close, quarter-end close, year-end close, FP&A, SOX, and partnering with internal and external audit.
• 5+ years leading change and program/project management for technical initiatives, with a track record of closing long-running programs in complex reporting environments.
• Strong hands-on SOX, ITGC, and ITAC experience, including designing and implementing controls in production environments.
• High proficiency with cloud data warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent); including writing your own SQL to validate requirements, build proofs-of-concept, and check outputs.
• High proficiency with ERP (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent) including experience with GL, financial reporting, revenue recognition, supply chain, and 3PL fulfillment.
• Power user of LLM tooling (Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) in your own day-to-day work, with the ability to coach non-technical partners on using it effectively.
• Conceptual fluency with agents, MCPs, skills, and LLM-in-the-loop patterns, sufficient to adequately scope opportunities and write requirements for a technical team.
• Ability to design data pipelines and modeling patterns that support reporting, analysis, and AI use cases.
• Proven ability to scope ambiguous problems and drive them to decisive outcomes.
• Track record of escalating risks early and closing long-running initiatives with clear recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, analytics, finance, and executive stakeholders.
• Practical ability to reduce operational fragility and remove single points of failure in finance processes.

Nice To Haves

• PMP or equivalent program management credential.
• Hands-on experience with dbt for data transformation and testing.
• Working proficiency with SQL and a scripting language (e.g. Python, JS, etc)
• Experience with Airflow, cron, iPaaS, or similar traditional automation frameworks.
• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure.
• Successfully designed large-scale enterprise processes, reporting, and automations across multiple systems and teams.
• Led cross-functional AI or automation rollouts in a SOX-controlled environment.
• Built and run enablement programs (training, docs, office hours) that drove real adoption, measured by usage rather than attendance.
• Served as the senior delivery/liaison IC between a technical team and a non-technical business function.

Responsibilities

• Build a working knowledge of the FDS team's data, tools, and AI capabilities, and become the trusted interface to it for Finance & Accounting stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance & Accounting teams across strategic finance, corporate finance, revenue, accounting, and SOX to identify high-impact opportunities for the FDS team to build against.
• Partner with the Finance Transformation team to assist with process redesign and solution implementation, with emphasis on AI native outcomes.
• Deeply map workflows: data sources, current process, requirements, SOX controls, and constraints. Translate business requirements into clear functional and data requirements the FDS team can execute against.
• Own delivery from scope through close: plan, coordinate, partner with the FDS team on execution, manage risk, and ship.
• Own stakeholder relationships and communication from kickoff through rollout, including with VP-level partners.
• Lead enablement: run training sessions, build internal docs, hold office hours, and provide rollout support so the tools we ship actually get used.
• Continuously hunt for automation and AI opportunities across Finance & Accounting beyond the known backlog.
• Coach Finance & Accounting partners on effective use of LLM tooling, agents, data, and automation patterns in their own work. Lead the uplift in AI, data, and automation fluency across the Finance org.
• Partner with Finance leadership on planning, stakeholder engagement, and program execution.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
• Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.

What This Job Offers

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