Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. We help teams launch products faster, iterate on pricing quickly, and deliver a first-class billing experience—all with speed, control, and confidence.
Our platform computes millions of invoices per billing period and is scaling rapidly to accommodate new customers, saving them hours of development time and manual invoicing and enabling them to use consumption data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, Databricks, and NVIDIA.
You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups before. Our founders and employees also have direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Dropbox, Clever, and New Relic. On the back of this experience and our success-to-date, we’ve raised over $78m from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil. We’re also proud to have founders and executives of companies like Segment, Plaid, Looker, Gitlab, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Snowflake, as investors who have experienced the pain we're solving firsthand.
About the Role
Metronome is seeking a dynamic Strategic Finance Leader to play a pivotal role in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities that drive our business forward. As a key member of our Finance Team, you will collaborate cross-functionally with leadership, product, and go-to-market (GTM) to spearhead high-priority initiatives encompassing revenue growth, market expansion, product strategy, cost optimization, and pricing. This role is ideal for a top-performing professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and demonstrates extreme ownership in diagnosing challenges, analyzing solutions, and driving impactful implementations.
What You'll Do
- Leverage advanced data analytics to source, structure, and analyze key datasets, ensuring reliable forecasts, actionable KPIs, and informed decision-making.
- Track and report on infrastructure cost performance, providing actionable insights to improve margins, and reduce COGS spending while maintaining product and service quality.
- Work closely with product and GTM teams to design scalable pricing structures tailored to diverse customer segments, ensuring alignment with company growth objectives.
- Conduct data-driven experiments and market tests to optimize pricing models and improve customer lifetime value.
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer segmentation studies to identify strategic growth opportunities and support key initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to build analytical frameworks that support decision-making on revenue growth, resource allocation, and performance optimization.
Qualifications
- 4+ years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar roles within high-growth technology and SaaS environments.
- Proven experience in financial modeling, pricing strategy, cost analysis, and performance reporting.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and SQL; strong ability to analyze large datasets and extract actionable insights.
- Exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with expertise in building and executing data-driven strategies.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a strong ability to translate data into clear, impactful narratives.
- A self-starter who thrives on ownership and has a bias toward action, even in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
- Comfortable tackling open-ended, complex questions and iterating quickly on solutions.
- Collaborative and adept at building strong relationships with cross-functional teams.
Bonus Points
- Experience at high-growth startups, or prior in B2B infrastructure SaaS.
- A background in designing pricing experiments or conducting customer research on pricing and product-market fit.
Impact You'll Have
- Collaborate with leadership and teams across product, GTM, and operations to implement high-priority initiatives that drive long-term growth.
- Own the full lifecycle of strategic projects, from initial exploration and data analysis to execution and retrospective review.
- Partner with business leaders to set and execute key financial metrics and strategic initiatives, driving alignment across the organization.
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $173,595- $190,000. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, including a One Medical membership
- Paid parental leave
- FSA (Flexible spending account)
- Retirement planning - Traditional and ROTH 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Employee assistance program (mental health benefits)
- Culture where personal growth is highly valued
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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