About Us
Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, with over 3 million paid subscriptions to writers, podcasters, and video-makers on the platform. We’re driving a fundamental shift in how writers and creators reach their audiences.
About this role
We are seeking a dynamic and strategic finance leader to join Substack as the Head of FP&A and Strategic Finance. In this role, you will report directly to the CFO and lead all aspects of financial planning, analysis, and long-range strategic forecasting. You will be a key business partner to the leadership team, providing insights and guidance on business performance, growth strategies, and financial decision-making. This is a critical role for ensuring Substack scales efficiently and drives sustainable growth in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
Our cash compensation salary range for this role is $220,000-$260,000. Multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Own the annual budget process, quarterly forecasts, and long-term financial planning
- Develop and maintain financial models that provide comprehensive insights into business performance
- Partner with department heads to provide financial guidance, ensuring alignment of financial goals with business strategies
- Drive variance analysis to ensure accountability and understanding of financial outcomes against plan
Strategic Finance
- Provide thought leadership on growth initiatives, resource allocation, and capital efficiency
- Lead scenario analysis and financial modeling to support key decisions, including M&A, partnerships and new product launches
- Collaborate closely with the business and product teams to analyze the financial impact of new features and services
- Provide ongoing analysis of competitive positioning and market opportunities
Reporting and Insights
- Develop and enhance management reporting to provide key stakeholders with actionable insights
- Prepare materials and present financial results, forecasts, and strategic insights to the leadership team
- Partner with the accounting team to ensure the integrity of financial results and adherence to financial controls
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work closely with operations, marketing, sales, and product teams to ensure that financial strategies are integrated into all aspects of the business
- Support fundraising activities, including preparation for potential future rounds, working closely with the CFO and external stakeholders
Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or investment banking with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- Experience at a high-growth tech company, preferably in consumer SaaS or Marketplace platforms
- Strong understanding of financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning
- Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to distill complex financial data into actionable insights
- Proven track record of partnering with senior leadership to drive financial and strategic outcomes
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Advanced proficiency in financial systems and Excel
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related field
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and handle multiple priorities with a high degree of accuracy
- You have your own connection to Substack’s mission and are game to work from Substack’s SF HQ at least 2-3 days per week.
Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. We’re seeking people passionate about enabling independent expression and building a better business model for creators. If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we’d love to meet you.
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What We Do
Substack lets writers connect with their audience on their own terms and earn money doing it. We make it simple for writers to publish to an email list that they own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions.
More than 500,000 people pay to subscribe to writers across the Substack network, and the top writers make millions of dollars a year. Substack’s model depends on the success of writers using Substack – we only make money when they do.
“Substack makes it dead simple to start a newsletter and get paid for it.” – Judd Legum, author of Popular Information
"Substack gives me a way to connect with my audience on my own terms.” – Lyz Lenz, author of God Land and Men Yell At Me
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Great writing is valuable. It respects readers' time, their intelligence, and their trust. It helps us make sense of and change the culture we live in. At Substack, we're building a business model that enables great writing to thrive. Learn more about our opportunity and mission.
We are a small but growing team, and there is more to build than we could ever imagine. That’s why we need you.
We aim to take pragmatic approaches to problem solving while shipping high-quality products that allow the writing on Substack to take the spotlight.
Every person at the company participates in customer support. We do this to build empathy with our users and enable us to build better products.
We believe that a diverse team will help us build a product that best serves the needs of a wildly diverse ecosystem of writers. So whatever your background or perspective, we’d welcome your input to help build the best possible version of Substack.
