Director of Strategic Finance

✨TL;DR - Why This Role Matters Scribe is at a pivotal point in its growth, and we’re hiring a Director of Finance to help define how the company scales from here. This role will own company-wide planning, forecasting, and play a central role in shaping how we invest, prioritize, and grow as the business doubles in size. You’ll partner closely with our GTM teams to translate growth ambitions into clear financial tradeoffs and outcomes. This role is designed for someone who wants real ownership, real judgment, and the opportunity to build the financial operating rhythm for the next phase of a high-growth B2B SaaS company.

📌 About the Role

This role sits at the center of how Scribe plans, invests, and scales. As Director of Finance, you’ll own much of the company’s financial planning and analysis muscle, ensuring the business is making clear, disciplined decisions as we rapidly scale.

You’ll be responsible for the full lifecycle of planning — from building the annual operating plan and forecasts to ensuring they remain accurate over time. This means holding teams accountable to performance, driving re-forecasting when reality diverges from plan, and helping leadership understand the tradeoffs behind their choices. Finance is expected to be the arbiter of truth, and this role plays a central part in making sure the organization is operating from a single, trusted financial view.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You’ll work closely with leaders across GTM, Accounting, and Operations to translate strategy into execution, surface risks and opportunities, and force clarity when alignment stalls. While the role does not start with a large team, it carries broad influence, visibility, and responsibility — and offers the opportunity to shape how finance operates as the company scales.

In your first 3–12 months at Scribe, you will:

• Drive the planning process, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning, and hold teams accountable when performance diverges from plan

• Lead the development and maintenance of financial models to support strategic decision-making, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives

• Identify and apply opportunities for AI and automation across finance to improve forecasting accuracy, decision speed, and how insights are delivered to the business

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate financial insight into action by surfacing tradeoffs, recommending paths forward, and pushing decisions to be made when ambiguity or misalignment persists

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps on revenue forecasting, capacity planning, and unit economics to ensure GTM plans are grounded in financial reality

• Enhance existing financial processes and systems to streamline operations and improve data accuracy, fostering a culture of accountability and performance; implementing planning tools, systems, and processes as scale demands

Success in this role looks like better decisions across the company: clearer plans, fewer surprises, stronger alignment, and leadership confident in where and how to invest.

🌎 Location

Hybrid (2-3 days a week) out of our San Francisco HQ.

🧩 What Makes You a Great Fit

This role is best suited for someone who thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership seriously, and uses financial insight to drive real business outcomes. You don’t just analyze what’s happening — you push the business toward what should happen next.

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You have 10+ years of progressive finance experience with a background in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, and/or PE

• You’ve owned financial planning at a high-growth company and are comfortable being accountable for keeping plans accurate as the business evolves

• You’re comfortable taking a point of view in ambiguity — synthesizing messy inputs, setting assumptions, and driving alignment

• You consistently push beyond reporting to answer the “so what” and influence how the business prioritizes and invests

• You’re deeply hands-on and builder-minded, comfortable building models, processes, and structure from scratch

• You partner effectively with GTM leaders, understanding how sales, marketing, and revenue dynamics translate into financial outcomes

• You operate with ownership and bias to action, leading cross-functional initiatives and communicating complex ideas clearly

• Experience building and leading teams in fast-paced startup environments

If you’re reading this thinking, “that’s exactly how I operate,” we’d love to meet you.

🚫 This Role Is Not for You If

This role isn’t for everyone, and that’s intentional. It will be a great fit for the right person — and frustrating for the wrong one.

This role may not be for you if:

• You prefer to focus on reporting and analysis rather than owning outcomes and driving decisions

• You’re most comfortable staying within a clearly defined “lane” and don’t enjoy stepping across functional “lines”

• You’re most comfortable operating with a clear playbook and well-defined processes — much of this role involves building structure where it doesn’t yet exist

• You like to provide input but are uncomfortable pushing for clarity or forcing decisions when alignment stalls

• You’re looking for a role with a large team or formal people management from day one; this is a hands-on, player-coach role to start

• You’re uncomfortable with priorities shifting as the business grows and new information emerges
  

👋 About us

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to document and scale how work gets done. Our Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams work smarter, faster, and more consistently.

We’re growing fast — since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown to over 5 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to uplevel how people do work.

🛠️ How we work

We are builders aspiring to master our crafts. We care deeply about our teammates and want to win, together. We fully embrace the following values:

• Accelerate impact

• Raise the bar

• Make our users heroes

• Clear is kind

• Rapid learning machine

• One team one dream
  

💰 Compensation

We use trusted market data and a tiered location system to ensure competitive, equitable pay. The range below reflects this; your specific offer will depend on experience, pay parity, and location.

The starting salary range for this role is $220,000 - 250,000 base + equity.

🎁 Full-Time US Employee Benefits Include

• Incredible teammates: Work alongside some of the nicest and smartest people you’ll ever meet.

• Ownership mindset: We’re all owners here, literally. Employees receive equity in Scribe, sharing in the company’s long-term success.

• Comprehensive coverage: We offer health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

• Time to recharge: Flexible paid time off, plus company holidays to rest and reset.

• Retirement planning: Employees can contribute to a 401(k) plan to help plan for their future.

• Support for growing families. Paid parental leave to help you care for and bond with your growing family.

• Lunch, on us: SF-based employees receive daily catered lunches at our office.

• Easy commutes: Commuter benefits for our office-based team, make getting to and from HQ simpler.

• Level up your home office: Remote? Hybrid? Wherever you work, we’ll support your setup with a home office stipend.

At Scribe, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.