- Salary
- $108k – $149k
- Location
- Austin, United States of America
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Sales
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Workday
Description
We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.
WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.
Location: Austin, TX or Omaha, NE (Hybrid)
Target Starting Base Salary Range: $135,000.00
What is Cool About This Job
The Go-to-Market (GTM) Finance team leads decision support for company-wide pivotal initiatives, drives business insights focused on cutting-edge business issues, and delivers bookings, churn, revenue, and top-line critical metric reporting and forecasting. This fast-paced role provides an outstanding opportunity to drive strategic analytics and decision support in a cross-functional B2B SaaS organization across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience.
In this role, you will partner directly with business leaders in Sales and Marketing to optimize operational performance through revenue, cost, and efficiency metrics. You will maintain the company’s operating model and strategic plans, and act as a trusted advisor to help our business units solve difficult problems, build business cases, and maximize ROI on marketing spend and customer acquisition. At WP Engine, we believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, and we’ll trust you to collaborate with others, form intelligent opinions, and present your thoughts to decision-makers and the executive team.
The Day to Day
Strategic Business Partnership: Build dynamic, long-term relationships with Executives and VP teams across the Sales, Marketing, and Revenue organizations to analyze business performance and drive strategic capital and operational resource allocation.
Financial Modeling & Planning: Build and manage dynamic, scalable financial models and multi-year plans, developing compelling outputs that track bookings, revenue, and core SaaS metrics.
Core Metrics & ROI Analysis: Formulate high-value analysis and deep dives into critical metrics such as LTV:CAC, sales efficiency, marketing funnel performance, and return on investment (ROI) to inform better commercial decisions.
Budgeting & Rolling Forecasts: Lead monthly and quarter-end financial processes, driving formal budget reviews and rolling forecasts to ensure operational expenses are tightly aligned month to month and gaps vs. plan are proactively addressed.
Data Storytelling & Executive Reporting: Prepare business cases, sensitivity analyses, and executive-ready reports or dashboards to present insights, trends, risks, and opportunities clearly to leadership and the broader business.
Your Expertise and Passion
Experience: 3+ years of financial analyst experience on a Strategic Finance or FP&A team at a fast-growing company, or background in investment banking, consulting, or private equity. Previous SaaS industry experience is highly preferred.
SaaS Metrics Mastery: Deep operational understanding of SaaS business models, customer acquisition funnels, and core metrics such as Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), LTV, CAC, and sales productivity.
Analytical Excellence: Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills with a demonstrated ability to handle very large "raw" data sets with the highest regard for accuracy and completeness.
Systems & Tools Accumen: Experience with financial planning and business intelligence tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, Looker, or Salesforce is a significant plus.
Strategic Thinker & Communicator: Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with an ability to distill complex financial scenarios into structured frameworks and tell a story through data.
Cultural Fit: Analytical, creative, positive, and results-oriented problem solver who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and approaches work with a high degree of integrity and humility.
Perks & Benefits (US)
Ownership Mindset: Company stock options for every employee.
Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with choice and flexibility.
Fertility Support: Fertility and IVF drug coverage included.
Financial Wellness: 401(k) with a 4% company match and Company HSA contributions ($750 individual / $1,500 family).
Peace of Mind: 100% employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, 10 paid holidays, 4 company wellness days, and 1 floating holiday.
Family and Caregiver Leave: Fully paid leave for new parents and caregivers.
Remote Work Support: $500 one-time home office setup stipend.
Career Growth: Ongoing education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning, and our Career Growth Portal.
At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Base Salary Range
We believe that compensation should be reflective of the impact you have within the organization relative to the market value of your role. The estimated base salary range for this position is as listed above. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Our salary ranges are determined by job role and responsibilities and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for salaries for the position nationwide. The actual base pay will vary based on various factors including job-related skills and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. Your talent acquisition partner can share more about the total rewards package at WP Engine including any additional total rewards components such as equity, variable pay plans (if applicable), and benefits during the hiring process.
