About the company
Honeycomb is a service defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do. We work with companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard. We've closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes' America's Best Startups of 2022 and 2023. We are a fully distributed company.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve our cloud-hosting-cost (COGS) analysis — breaking hosting spend (compute, storage, AI/LLM usage) down by area and by customer
- Take ownership of Pigment, our BI and planning tool — building and maintaining reports and supporting forecasting and monthly and quarterly close
- Partner with engineering on R&D capitalization
- Run forecasting and planning for the R&D organization, including headcount and software planning
- Track and help manage our AI/LLM tooling costs, monitoring usage against budget
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, data, and IT to improve financial processes and reporting
- Support the finance team on special projects and ad-hoc analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or comparable field — or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, or P&L management experience at a SaaS company
- A technical orientation, with the ability to partner directly with engineering and product teams
- Expert in Excel and Google Sheets, comfortable with a range of modeling techniques
- Experience with ERP and financial planning/BI tools — Pigment (or comparable tool such as Mosaic) a strong plus
- Comfortable in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
- Strong quantitative skills
- Familiarity with cloud/hosting cost structures, R&D capitalization, or SQL a plus
Conditions
- Base salary $125,000 — $170,000 USD based on level of experience
- Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- Transparent pay levels relative to experience
- Unlimited PTO
- Distributed-first mindset and culture
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- Full benefits coverage for employees, additional coverage for dependents
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Annual development allowance
- Cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers