Sr. Strategic Finance Manager - Self Serve and New Products

Zapier Zapier · Enterprise · NAMER · Finance

Zapier is seeking a Sr. Strategic Finance Manager to lead financial strategy for their self-serve and new products businesses. This role involves forecasting, planning, and analysis, with a strong emphasis on understanding self-serve SaaS dynamics and building analytical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be proficient in SQL, comfortable with ambiguity, and adept at partnering with cross-functional teams. A key aspect of the role is the proactive and integrated use of AI tools in daily work to drive efficiency and insights.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the dedicated finance partner for Zapier's self-serve business, working across the Chief Product Officer, SVP of Marketing, and CFO to bring a unified financial perspective to a business that spans multiple functions.
  2. Build and own the forecasting, reporting, and analytical infrastructure for self-serve, this is largely net-new work, so you'll be defining what good looks like.
  3. Analyze the self-serve funnel end-to-end: from top-of-funnel acquisition through activation, conversion, expansion, and retention. Identify where the business is leaking value and where the biggest opportunities are.
  4. Own self-serve unit economics and provide perspective on key levers, pricing, packaging, churn reduction, and growth investments.
  5. Use SQL and other tools to self-serve data and build analyses that drive decisions, rather than relying on pre-built reports.

Skills

Required

  • 6-8+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or a related analytical role
  • Deep understanding of self-serve business dynamics (churn, contraction, expansion, net new revenue, full funnel)
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Ability to build relationships and drive alignment across product, marketing, engineering, and finance
  • Comfort with ambiguity and building from scratch
  • Strong communication skills
  • Good judgment and bias toward proactive surfacing of issues/opportunities
  • Experience using AI tools as part of daily operations

What the JD emphasized

  • SQL is a requirement for this role
  • You use AI in your work today — not occasionally, but as part of how you operate at a high level.
  • build analytical infrastructure
  • drive insights
  • build relationships and drive alignment across product, marketing, engineering, and finance
  • comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building something from scratch, new processes, new analyses, new ways of looking at the business
  • Proactively surface trends, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to understand how product changes impact financial outcomes, and bring a financial lens to product investment decisions.