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📈 Forward Deployed Finance Partner

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of financial statements, forecasting, and scenario analysis
  • Comfort working with SQL and structured data
  • Experience in SaaS onboarding, consulting, or FPA roles
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities

Responsibilities

  • Leading customers through implementation, onboarding, and adoption
  • Conducting 2-4 high-impact customer sessions daily
  • Building and refining financial models
  • Partnering with internal product and success teams to improve onboarding experience

Key facts

Other skills

  • Forecasting
  • Consulting
  • Communication
  • Relationship Building
  • Problem Solving
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Adaptability

About the company

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Runway

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Services

🏗 Why Build Runway?The way we look at financials today hasn't changed in over half a millennium. It doesn't just predate computing, it actually predates the popularization of negative numbers. We truly feel that there is an opportunity for a rethink.🛫 What is Runway?Runway is a SaaS product that helps you and your team understand your business so you can make better decisions together. Unlike other financial software, Runway is designed to be a consumer-grade product for normal people who aren't accountants, and is fast, intuitive, and social.Runway reinvents how business financials are presented through modern design and engineering. By bringing clarity, power, and speed to financial data, we help every team become more aligned on the entire business so they can collaborate to make better decisions, faster.🧮 Problems Runway is SolvingProblem 1: Today, valuable financial data are trapped inside Excel, Quickbooks, Netsuite across the finance team, so it can take days to get any meaningful insight from financial data. - Solution: Runway is a 10X-100X faster way to get insights from business financials. Through a simple but powerful rethink of how you interact with your financial data, we give operators the power to mold and share their financial data in a way that actually matches their mental model. In summary, Runway helps in *Understanding the Business*.Problem 2: With financial data and insights pulled manually, strewn across dozens of Excel files and Google Sheets, teams don't have a consistent view of the business and where it's going. - Solution: Runway is fundamentally a social product, like "Facebook for your Finances". We help leaders distribute responsibility for the expenses and revenue of the company throughout the company, so that everyone on the team can act like owners, with the same context that the business leaders would have. Thus, Runway helps in *Aligning the Team*.Come join us! We're hiring! 🙋

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Services
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

About Runway

Runway is a collaborative business planning platform designed to make business intuitively understandable for everyone.

Our Mission: To make business accessible and understandable to everyone. We believe that teams that understand the “why” behind their work are more productive and make better decisions. True alignment and collaboration come from having a shared source of truth that everyone understands.

Our Approach: Runway replaces traditional spreadsheets with a modern planning platform that brings clarity and context to business operations for all teams — not just finance. Just as Figma made design accessible across the organization, Runway does the same for business planning.

Why It Matters: Understanding requires more than just access to numbers; real collaboration happens when teams see how their work fits into the bigger picture. By providing this context, Runway helps teams save time and move faster.

Our Customers: World-class companies like AngelList, Superhuman, Stability.AI, ConvertKit, Lambda Labs, Lob, and SandboxVR rely on Runway to run their businesses more efficiently.

Our Investors: We are supported by a select group of investors that we admire, including Garry Tan (YC & Initialized), a16z, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Dylan Field (founder of Figma), Eric Ries, Claire Hughes Johnson (COO of Stripe), Henry Ward (founder of Carta), Akshay Kothari (COO of Notion), Eugene Wei, Lenny Rachitsky, Nikita Bier, Scott Belsky, Soleio Cuervo, Balaji Srinivasan, and many others.

Working at Runway

We're early, so you'll have an opportunity to shape not just our product, but the company itself: who we work with, and how we work together.

We strive to be clear in our communication and over-communicate by default.

We're remote-first, so you can work from anywhere in North America. However, we also believe in the value of face-time to solve really hard problems, so we:

  • Meet together as a company every quarter in our San Francisco office.

  • Open up offices in places with many teammates (we currently have offices in SF and NYC).

  • Make it easy to fly out and meet together.

Below are the values we share as a team, so if you like these, you’ll enjoy working here.

Our Values

  • 💩 Give a Shit: Giving a shit can’t be taught. It’s an inner drive that compels you to do what’s right and do it well. Have passion, take pride, and care deeply about your impact.

  • 💡 Create Clarity: Cut through ambiguity and reveal the truth. Start with why, then answer how and what. Treat problems like puzzles, dig deeper, and find the right path.

  • 🤝 Build Trust: With trust, it’s safe to take risks. We get there by being open, honest, and accountable. Actively listen, speak your mind, and consistently show up.

  • ✨ Raise the Bar: Scrap the status quo and push yourself to create something that wows. Get others excited to do the same. Iterate, elevate, and don’t stop moving forward.

What you’ll do

  • Leading customers through implementation, onboarding, and adoption, ensuring their success from setup through scale.

  • Conducting 2-4 high-impact customer sessions daily, including hands-on modeling and training calls.

  • Building and refining financial models - forecasts, balance sheets, income statements, and scenario analyses.

  • Partnering with internal product and success teams to continuously improve Runway’s onboarding experience.

  • Measuring and driving outcomes like time-to-value, customer retention, and user independence.

You’ll love this role at Runway if you have

  • Finance & Technical Expertise

    • Deep understanding of financial statements, forecasting, and scenario analysis.

    • Comfort working with SQL and structured data.

    • Experience in SaaS onboarding, consulting, or FP&A roles.

    • Familiarity with tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Runway.

  • Soft Skills

    • Exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities.

    • A problem-solving mindset with strong analytical instincts.

    • Ability to prioritize and adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving environment.

You’ll love this role at Runway if you have

Finance & Technical Expertise

  • Deep understanding of financial statements, forecasting, and scenario analysis.

  • Comfort working with SQL and structured data.

  • Experience in SaaS onboarding, consulting, or FP&A roles.

  • Familiarity with tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Runway.

Soft Skills

  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities.

  • A problem-solving mindset with strong analytical instincts.

  • Ability to prioritize and adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving environment.

How You’ll Be Measured

  • Speed to Value: How quickly customers realize measurable impact.

  • Retention & Engagement: Long-term relationships built on trust and results.

  • Customer Independence: Clients who confidently operate their own models.

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⚠️ Note to Founders

At Runway, our commitment to our mission goes hand in hand with our dedication to cultivating the next generation of entrepreneurs. Around 10% of our team members have been founders themselves, and several early employees have successfully exited to start their own ventures - some backed by our founder Siqi Chen, who has invested in over 200 startups to date.

By stepping into this role, you’ll help shape and grow an array of customer businesses, gaining firsthand insights into diverse operational strategies, monetization models, and long-term vision planning. Paired with our open and transparent culture, Runway offers a uniquely supportive environment for those aspiring to launch their own company in the future.
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The base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000-$190,000 + generous early employee equity + benefits. The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.

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