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contractDirector, FP&A
Gitlab · Remote, United States
GitLab provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, serving over 50 million registered users and a large share of Fortune 100 companies. As Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, you will lead the finance function for GitLab’s Research & Development organization, the company’s largest expense area. You will act as the strategic finance partner to the Chief Technology Officer and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions. Daily work includes building headcount, compensation, cloud, AI and tooling budgets, creating frameworks that tie R&D spend to product outcomes, evaluating business cases for new initiatives and build‑versus‑buy choices, and tracking efficiency metrics such as R&D spend as a percentage of revenue and cost per engineer. You will also lead the AI transformation of R&D finance processes, redesigning planning and reporting workflows with AI tools, and manage a small finance team through hiring, coaching and goal setting. The role suits candidates with extensive finance experience, especially as a lead finance partner to engineering, product or R&D groups, strong analytical and modeling skills, experience with forecasting and AI‑enabled finance tools, and the ability to partner across technical and business stakeholders in a remote, asynchronous environment.
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), you'll lead finance for GitLab's Research & Development (R&D) organization, our largest operating expense area. You'll be the strategic finance partner to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions. R&D builds our AI-powered development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) platform, which more than 100,000 organizations use. You'll connect investment in headcount, infrastructure, AI and cloud usage, and tooling to product outcomes, with clear measurement and reliable forecasts. You'll sit at the CTO's staff table, shape GitLab's long-range plan, and help leadership decide where to invest next, making R&D spend predictable. What you’ll do Serve as the finance advisor to the CTO and R&D leadership. Hold partners accountable for execution against plan and connect R&D priorities to company financial targets. Lead annual planning, and rolling forecasts for R&D. Own the operating plan across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting and cloud, AI and large language model (LLM) costs, software, and tooling. Build frameworks that connect R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes. Evaluate business cases for new initiatives, AI capabilities, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor commitments, and present risks and opportunities to leadership. Define and track R&D efficiency metrics, including R&D spend as a percentage of revenue, cost per engineer, hosting cost per user, and AI inference cost per feature. Identify large-scale savings and reallocation opportunities and see them through to completion. Partner with People and R&D leaders on hiring plans, location strategy, and organizational design. Keep headcount forecasts accurate and reconciled to actuals. Lead the AI transformation of R&D finance. Rethink planning, forecasting, and reporting workflows, and use AI tools to make them faster, more accurate, and more insightful. Redesign FP&A processes, policies, and planning and reporting systems for efficiency and effectiveness, with AI in the center. Work with Accounting on capitalized software, accruals, and allocations, and with Procurement on process improvements. Lead and develop your R&D finance team:: hire and coach team members, set goals and priorities, and give expert feedback. Put GitLab's values into practice through handbook-first, asynchronous collaboration across time zones. What you’ll bring Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization plus experience leading a team of analysts A strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development. Experience leading process redesign and change in a finance team, including hands-on use of AI tools to improve how work gets done. Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives. Advanced financial modeling skills that follow industry best practices, expertise in Google Sheets, and hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools. We don't use Excel for modeling. A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. Comfort working remotely and asynchronously, and the ability to use GitLab. Preferred experience includes enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) finance; direct CTO partnership; NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, o
| Role | Director, FP&A |
|---|---|
| Company | Gitlab |
| Location | Remote, United States |
| Type | contract |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-13 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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