Job Description: First FP&A Hire

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: [Not Specified]

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. Over 200,000 developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency, and pricing. Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases.

The company ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth across the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed, and over 1 trillion words transcribed. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

About the Role

We're looking for our first FP&A hire to build and scale the financial planning function from the ground up. This is a strategic and hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, brings deep financial rigor, and wants to make a visible impact at a critical stage of growth. You’ll work directly with our VP of Finance and broader leadership team to guide decision-making, operationalize performance metrics, and own company-wide financial planning, modeling, and forecasting. You will also be one of the first names called on to lead special projects such as new markets exploration, cross-functional tool deployments, M&A due diligence, internal process improvements, etc.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role in a remote-first company building cutting-edge AI infrastructure. If you're looking to roll up your sleeves, take ownership, and shape how financial insight drives company-building, we’d love to talk.

What You’ll Do

• Financial Planning & Forecasting: Own the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, and long-term plan.
• Financial Modeling & Scenario Planning: Build and maintain complex, dynamic financial models to support budgeting, long-range planning, and strategic what-if scenarios.
• KPI Definition & Reporting: Define, operationalize, and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) that tie financial health to operational effectiveness. Build frameworks and dashboards to communicate these metrics clearly to leadership and key stakeholders. KPIs are wide-ranging, and include metrics like ARR, win rates, usage volume, and GPU cluster utilization.
• Variance & Performance Analysis: Investigate performance deviations, identify risks and opportunities, and provide data-backed recommendations to improve outcomes.
• Executive & Board Communications: Prepare high-quality financial materials and insights for board meetings, investor updates, and leadership reviews, presenting data with clarity, narrative, and strategic context.
• Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across product, engineering, research, GTM, and operations. Provide decision support and financial guidance on pricing, headcount, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Identify opportunities to improve, automate, and scale financial workflows. Help evaluate and implement planning systems or tooling as the function matures.
• GTM Support: Design and manage sales compensation plans, lead deal desk operations, and partner on strategic pricing and contract negotiations.
• Team & Function Growth: Lay the foundation for a world-class FP&A function, with the goal to grow and lead the team over time.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 6-8+ years of experience in FP&A or strategic finance at a high-growth, analytically rigorous software company. Experience at an AI company is preferred.
• Financial Modeling: Expertise in building and managing complex 3-statement financial models (required).
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and data manipulation skills; fluent in Excel/Sheets and SQL (required).
• AI Tools: Comfortable working with AI tools to enhance finance workflows.