This role will serve as a strategic partner to DDN's Engineering and Product organizations. You'll translate investment and roadmap decisions into measurable business outcomes, and partner with technical leadership on capital allocation, product strategy, and company/business unit operations. The ideal candidate combines strategic finance expertise with a genuine curiosity for how and why technology companies build products.
Key Responsibilities:Embedded finance partner to Engineering and Product leadership. Build trusted relationships to influence resource allocation and roadmap decisions.
Own end-to-end R&D financial planning: budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning (LRP), and variance analysis with clear narratives for headcount, non-payroll, and infrastructure spend.
Partner with R&D to define efficiency metrics, identify cost optimization opportunities, and manage cloud and on-prem infrastructure costs.
Develop and manage KPI reporting that ladders up to business unit and overall company objectives, Develop a clear understanding of the product portfolio's current and future state (drivers, trends, use cases, etc) and provide input on business decisions
Support DDN's pricing, packaging, and deal structure redesign as the business and product evolve.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field
4+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or management consulting. Experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO company a plus.
Proficient in financial modeling, executive-ready presentations, and business partnership with technical stakeholders.
SQL & BI tools, planning tools (Pigment, Adaptive), and ERP (Workday) experience a plus.
Strong executive presence with the ability to partner across all levels of stakeholders. Intellectually curious, self-directed, and comfortable with ambiguity.
Interest in AI tools and willingness to build them into daily work.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field
- 4+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or management consulting
- Experience with financial modeling
- Experience creating executive-ready presentations
- Ability to partner with technical stakeholders and senior executives
- SQL and business intelligence tools experience
- Pigment or Adaptive planning tools experience
- Workday ERP experience
- Interest in AI tools and willingness to incorporate them into daily work
- Experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO company
What We Do
DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.
