Sparrow is the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution. Our mission is to make it simple for companies to provide their employees with all kinds of leave (i.e. family, medical, etc.).
Currently, the leave management process is painful and inefficient for everyone. Company leaders struggle to keep up with regulations and processes that change frequently, and the employees going on leave are overwhelmed by bureaucracy at an exceptionally important juncture in their career. Sparrow transforms this ordinarily tedious, error-prone, complex to remain compliant, and time-consuming process into a 30-minute end-to-end experience saving teams time (20 - 40 hours per leave) and money (up to $30K per leave).
Sparrow is headquartered in San Francisco but all employees work remotely across the country. Sparrow is a diverse, highly talented, and supportive team. Together, we are hardworking, collaborative, smart, and humble—after all, we’re solving real problems.
About The Team And Role
You'll be Sparrow's first Strategic Finance hire, reporting directly to the CFO. This is an opportunity to build the finance function from scratch: owning the models and analysis that drive real decisions. You'll partner directly with the CFO on strategy while independently owning execution, and you'll have real influence on how this function is built as Sparrow scales.
What You'll Do
Model Ownership: Own all financial models, including the operating model, headcount model, and other models that set goals and measure business performance across the company.
Build the next-generation Strategic Finance function: Develop AI-powered workflows, automated analyses, and intelligence systems that redefine what a small strategic finance team can do.
Strategy: Assess and define our existing and potential future strategic priorities. Quantitatively validate and drive influence toward the highest revenue impact and ROI initiatives.
Reporting and Insights: Deliver data-driven insights and recommendations that inform go-to-market tactics, product decisions, budget allocations, Board of Directors and investor materials, leadership reporting and other cross-functional roadmaps.
Business Partnership: Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Sales, Engineering, Product, Operations, and Leadership.
Strategic Planning: Contribute to our long-range, annual, and quarterly planning processes, including the strategic plan that positions us to accomplish our goals.
What You Bring
3-5 years of experience, whether from investment banking, consulting, or in-house FP&A or strategic finance. Experience with consumption-based or usage-based business models is a meaningful plus.
Expert-level modeling ability, translating complex business drivers into clear, usable frameworks without hand-holding.
You've built something with AI, a model, a workflow, an automated analysis, and you're eager to do more of it. You see AI as core to how a modern finance function operates, not a novelty.
You identify problems before they're handed to you, and you thrive when the answer isn't obvious.
An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
Comfortable being the only one in the room who does this. There's no existing Strategic Finance team to lean on yet, you're helping to build the first version of it.
Compensation
This is a full-time salaried position with compensation of $97,000-$143,000 depending on experience and location.
Why Sparrow?Our work at Sparrow is impactful. We help People teams with one of the hardest parts of their job, and we support employees at a time when they need it most. We’re driven by our mission, much like a nonprofit, but with the resources and scale of a fast-growing venture-backed company.
Sparrow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. While we are united by our excitement for the mission and product, the diversity of our experiences is one of our strengths. The Sparrow team is made up of people with all types of backgrounds, and we have teammates in 40 states and counting. To learn more about the Sparrow team and its benefits, check out our careers page.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in investment banking, consulting, in-house FP&A, or strategic finance
- Expert-level financial modeling ability
- Experience building AI-powered workflows, models, or automated analyses
- Experience with consumption-based or usage-based business models
- Ability to independently identify problems and operate effectively amid ambiguity
- Strong bias for action, ownership, resilience, and ability to deliver outcomes
Sparrow Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sparrow and has not been reviewed or approved by Sparrow.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer-covered premiums for strong medical, dental, and vision options indicate robust health coverage. Feedback suggests this meaningfully reduces out-of-pocket costs for employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid family and medical leave is described as generous and benchmarked to industry standards. Feedback suggests these policies support major life events beyond minimum requirements.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO is offered with guidance around about three weeks. Feedback suggests the policy provides broad time-off options on paper.
Sparrow Insights
What We Do
Sparrow is the first end-to-end leave management solution for modern employers to care for their people during major life events. Sparrow’s high-tech, high-touch approach automates the most painful parts of employee leave management, while our world-class leave specialist team ensures a premium experience for all types of leaves across the United States and Canada. By partnering with Sparrow, caring companies such as Headspace, Chime, and Bumble, reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, and contain costs.
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