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.

Location

This position is based in San Jose, CA. Travel is expected to be approximately 10%.

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.

• High integrity and strong business judgment, with the ability to influence and negotiate within a complex, matrixed global organization.

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Salary Ranges:

$168,100.00 - $241,900.00