Strategic Finance Lead

About Us We're Team Granola 👋 Granola is an AI-powered notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. What started as a better way to take notes has become a shared workspace that helps teams capture, organize, and act on what matters. We're building a product people genuinely love and are fortunate to work with many of the world's most ambitious companies. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to help build the financial operating rhythm that supports the next stage of the company. About the Role We’re looking for our first Strategic Finance hire to help build the financial operating rhythm behind Granola’s next stage of growth. You’ll help build the financial operating rhythm of the company, owning core financial planning, analysis and strategic decision support. You’ll partner closely with leaders across the company to understand what’s happening in the business, identify the drivers behind performance and help us make better decisions about where we invest. This is a highly hands-on role with significant ownership from day one. What You’ll Do Own our company model and forecasting. Build and maintain the financial model that connects revenue, headcount, operating expenses, gross margin and cash, and continuously improve our ability to forecast the business. Lead company planning. Drive our company planning and ongoing forecasting cadence, partnering with leaders across the business to translate operating plans into financial outcomes and inform resource allocation. Help leaders understand performance. Partner with functional leaders on budgets, forecasts and performance, digging into the underlying drivers and turning them into clear insights and actions. Deepen our understanding of unit economics. Build a robust view of the economics of our business, including gross margin, customer acquisition, retention and sales efficiency, and identify opportunities to improve them. Drive strategic analysis and decision-making. Build scenarios and