Director, Strategic Finance & FP&A
<div class="content-intro"><h3>ABOUT US</h3>
<p>E-commerce got real-time data infrastructure decades ago. Physical stores still have not. RADAR is changing that.<br><br>RADAR is building the data infrastructure layer for the physical world, starting with retail. Our hardware-enabled SaaS platform uses proprietary overhead sensors, software, and AI-powered analytics to locate every product in a store, continuously, down to the fixture. We are deployed across 1,400+ stores with retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy, processing tens of billions of real-world events every day, delivering 99%+ accuracy in complex, noisy environments - at fleet scale.<br><br>RADAR is one of the best-funded companies in retail technology, backed by a recent Series B financing at a $1 billion valuation. Inventory accuracy is only the beginning. We believe RADAR can become foundational infrastructure for the physical economy, powering new AI-driven commerce experiences across retail and beyond.<br><br>Join us if you want to work on a large, unsolved, technically challenging problem with an ambitious team building category-defining technology.</p>
<h4>OUR VALUES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Mission-Driven: We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.</li>
<li>Collaborative Team: We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.</li>
<li>High Impact: You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.</li>
<li>Clear Communication: We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue—everyone’s voice matters.</li>
<li>Balanced Lives: We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.</li>
<li>Diverse Perspectives: We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.</li>
<li>Empathy-Driven Design: We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.</li>
</ul></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE JOB</strong></h3>
<p>This is a high-impact, high-visibility finance leadership role at a pivotal stage of RADAR's growth reporting directly to the CFO. As Director, Strategic Finance & FP&A, you will own the company's financial planning, forecasting, and modeling infrastructure while serving as a trusted strategic partner to the CFO and executive team. You will help allocate capital wisely, sharpen the company's financial story, and drive the rigor that enables confident, fast decision-making across a complex, hardware-software business.<br><br>This is not a seat-warming role. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, build processes from the ground up, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with every function in the company. You should thrive in ambiguity, bring a bias for action, and have the intellectual horsepower to learn a technically complex, operationally demanding business quickly. This is also a role with a clear growth path — as RADAR scales, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a high-performing finance team, shaping not just the company’s financial strategy but the function as a whole. </p>
<h4><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h4>
<p><strong>Financial Planning & Analysis</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own FP&A end to end — build and manage annual planning, rolling forecasts, and reforecasting cadences that keep the company oriented to what matters most.</li>
<li>Maintain and continuously improve the company's dynamic, driver-based financial model; ensure it scales as the business grows in complexity.</li>
<li>Develop and own department-level budgets in partnership with functional leaders; track actuals vs. plan with clear variance analysis and commentary.</li>
<li>Build and own KPI and operating metric frameworks; ensure the right data reaches the right stakeholders at the right time.</li>
<li>Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, translating financial performance into clear, actionable insight for the leadership team.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Strategic Finance & Capital Allocation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO and CFO; frame major decisions — investment priorities, go-to-market bets, resource deployment — with rigorous financial analysis.</li>
<li>Drive ROI-focused capital allocation thinking across the business; help the leadership team make confident, outcomes-oriented investment decisions.</li>
<li>Lead scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support strategic planning cycles, new initiatives, and potential pivots.</li>
<li>Support fundraising and investor relations activity, including board package preparation, investor materials, and financial narrative development.</li>
<li>Assist with M&A, partnership, and other strategic transaction analysis as needed.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Decision Support & Business Partnering</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Act as a proactive, embedded finance partner to every major function — Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Customer Success — bringing financial rigor to operational decisions, owning monthly business review processes and Budget vs. Actual variance analyses that drive accountability and informed decision-making across the organization.</li>
<li>Help refine pricing models, unit economics frameworks, and cost structure analyses that inform product and commercial strategy.</li>
<li>Lead ad hoc analysis on the company's most critical questions; move from ambiguous ask to clear, actionable insight quickly.</li>
<li>Support hardware and software COGS analysis, gross margin optimization, and supply chain financial modeling unique to RADAR's operationally complex business.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Reporting, Board & Investor Materials</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own the preparation of board packages, investor updates, and management reporting — ensuring they tell a clear, compelling financial story.</li>
<li>Manage the company model with discipline, maintaining a single source of financial truth the organization can rely on.</li>
<li>Build out reporting infrastructure and dashboards that make financial performance highly visible across the company.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Finance Operations & AI-Enabled Workflows</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Create more rigorous and scalable policies and processes around how teams spend their budgets and manage resource allocation tradeoffs</li>
<li>Identify, test, and adopt AI tools and workflow automation to improve FP&A throughput, forecasting accuracy, and analytical depth.</li>
<li>Partner with Accounting on close processes, ensuring Finance and Accounting are tightly aligned on reporting accuracy and cadence.</li>
<li>Build and document scalable FP&A processes and systems that can support a rapidly growing team and business.</li>
<li>Over time, help recruit, develop, and manage a high-performing finance team as RADAR grows.</li>
</ul>
<h3>ABOUT YOU</h3>
<h4><strong>Required</strong>:</h4>
<ul>
<li>8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or a combination thereof</li>
<li>Track record in a high-growth, venture-backed technology company — ideally hardware/software or operationally complex environments</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to own FP&A end to end: annual planning, budgeting, rolling forecasts, and reforecast cycles</li>
<li>Expert financial modeler — can build dynamic, scalable, driver-based models from scratch with no hand-holding</li>
<li>Strong analytical and quantitative skills; comfortable working in large, complex data sets</li>
<li>Outstanding oral and written communicator — able to tell the story behind the numbers for both technical and non-technical audiences</li>
<li>Experience preparing board packages and executive-level financial materials</li>
<li>High agency, high ownership mindset — a self-starter who does not wait to be told what to do</li>
<li>Operates effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments; adapts quickly without losing rigor</li>
<li>Low ego, collaborative, coachable — a true team player who builds trust across functions</li>
<li>Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field</li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Preferred:</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Experience at a hardware + software company with meaningful COGS complexity and supply chain financial dynamics</li>
<li>A background in investment banking or consulting prior to operating role experience</li>
<li>Experience supporting or participating in fundraising processes (Series C and beyond)</li>
<li>Familiarity with NetSuite and FP&A planning tools</li>
<li>Proficiency in SQL or BI tools (Looker, Tableau) for self-serve data analysis</li>
<li>AI-proficient and enthusiastic about testing and adopting new tools to upgrade FP&A workflows</li>
<li>Experience building out or managing a small finance team</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></h3>
<h4><strong>In your first 30 days, you will:</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Develop a deep understanding of RADAR's business model, unit economics, and financial architecture</li>
<li>Meet key partners across leadership, ops, product, and accounting</li>
<li>Audit the existing financial model and planning cadence — identify the biggest gaps</li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>In your first 60 days, you will:</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Own your first full forecast cycle end to end — reforecast, variance analysis, and executive commentary</li>
<li>Propose an improved planning and reporting cadence; gain alignment with leadership</li>
<li>Build trust as a business partner with functional leaders through high-quality financial support</li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>In your first 90 days, you will:</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Own a refreshed company model that leadership trusts as a decision-making tool</li>
<li>Contribute meaningfully to a board or investor package</li>
<li>Identify and begin implementing at least one significant process or tooling improvement</li
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