Finance Lead

ABOUT POSTHOG

We're shipping every product that companies need https://posthog.com/handbook/why-does-posthog-exist to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including:

• A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
• A customer data platform https://posthog.com/docs/cdp, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
• PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, Workflow, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We Are

• Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
• Default alive https://paulgraham.com/aord.html. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
• Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors https://posthog.com/handbook/strategy/investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible https://posthog.com/deskhog.

THINGS WE CARE ABOUT

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook https://posthog.com/handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company and make product decisions https://posthog.com/handbook/which-products. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
• Shipping fast: Why not now? https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
• Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#were-on-the-makers-schedule, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
• Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy https://posthog.com/deskhog with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

WHY POSTHOG?

• You’ll have ownership. You’ll report to the co-ceo on all things Finance, you'll be able to have an impact from day 1 - you're the driver https://posthog.com/handbook/values#youre-the-driver
• No corporate theatre. You're joining a team that cares about substance over process. You'll be building finance for engineers who want clear answers and good decisions, not just building polished decks
• You're joining a generational company. We are top quartile for revenue growth and top decile for efficiency for our stage. Think default alive on steroids. We have decades of runway and can take big bets.

JOB SUMMARY

So far we’ve managed to scale to $50m ARR, raised $180M through our series E, held our first tender offer, opened three entities and managed to keep our engineering team happy the whole time. We've got a really solid foundation of systems, processes and controls but we're a complex business growing fast - we don't know what we don't know. Our strong base allows us to look even further into the future and make even bigger bets. Now we are looking for a Finance Lead to come in and help us build on what is already here. Maybe you were, or reported to, a CFO or VP Finance, and want to lead PostHog in its next phase.

You'll report directly to our co-CEO Tim. You'll own decisions, budgets, forecasts, compliance, audits and generally be a leader that helps make Finance an enabler of every team at PostHog. You’ll power every product, infra, sales, CS, legal, people (you get it) team member to think about the financial success of the business. You’ll be able to tell the story to our newest team member and get them as excited as you will our board and future investors. This role is about living in the important details and translating these into the big picture.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Owning FP&A and helping to make the big finance related decisions we'll face in the coming years
• Reporting our financial metrics to our board and investors
• Being responsible for the accuracy of our accounts, including revenue recognition across all our products
• Ensuring all areas of payroll, indirect taxes and all other finance-y compliance issues are handled
• Partner with our GTM teams to make sure we deliver the best experience to our customers

WHAT YOU WON'T BE DOING

❌ Hiring an army of people - staying lean is key to our strategy.

❌ Strategy-only work. All roles at PostHog are hands-on, so you’ll set the plan and ship it.

❌ Following a playbook - you will write the playbook.

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of finance experience in a SaaS company (preferably a dev tool) that scaled well beyond $100m ARR
• Been the #1 or #2 in terms of responsibility for finance

Nice To Have

• Multi-entity experience
• Worked for a remote-first company
• Worked with usage-based revenue
• Live in SF/Bay Area or willing to travel there ~once a month

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!