Strategic Finance Lead (GTM)

Join Perplexity as a Strategic Finance Lead, where you will play a crucial role in scaling our consumer and enterprise businesses. You will partner with Marketing and Growth leaders to identify growth opportunities, understand customer economics, and turn investment decisions into measurable business results. This hands-on position requires strong financial modeling and analytical skills, as well as the ability to work directly with data and build financial models. With 5+ years of experience in strategic finance, business operations, or growth analytics, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our company's growth trajectory.

• Develop the customer economics and investment recommendations that guide how we acquire and retain customers, grow enterprise pipeline, and scale marketing spend.
• Partner with Marketing and Growth leaders to build and scale growth initiatives, identify constraints, and determine the resources and changes needed to produce more business.
• Build models and analyses to guide growth investments, translate plans into resource requirements and spending forecasts, and track commitments as plans evolve.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust, challenge assumptions constructively, and work across teams
• Experience making growth investment decisions across both consumer or self-serve acquisition and enterprise demand generation, with a strong understanding of customer economics and the connection between marketing activity, pipeline, and bookings
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with a deep understanding of customer economics and investment returns
• A track record of independently identifying growth opportunities, building the analysis needed to act, and working with partners to implement decisions and learn from results. You move quickly, learn fast, and are willing to do the detailed work yourself
• Ability to work directly with data and build financial models, using AI tools to accelerate analysis and improve workflows. You can validate outputs, interrogate assumptions, and explain the business logic behind your recommendations
• 5+ years of experience in strategic finance, business operations, growth analytics, or a related field, with experience supporting growth-oriented decisions