Senior Finance Manager, Product & Engineering

Mixpanel is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with its Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organizations. This role will own infrastructure cost, EPD operating expense, and headcount planning while building scalable financial systems to improve visibility and decision-making, and developing analytical frameworks that guide how Mixpanel deploys capital and allocates resources across these areas. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product leadership, People, and Finance to ensure investments are intentional, efficient, and aligned with the long-term company strategy.

Responsibilities - Own the Product investment envelope: manage OpEx and headcount budgets across EPD; ensure investments align with strategy while maintaining efficiency and margin targets. - Drive workforce planning across technical and corporate teams: build bottoms-up headcount models by function and level; partner with Engineering leaders to sequence hiring against roadmap needs, compliance requirements, and scale. - Model infrastructure and internal systems economics: develop forecasting for cloud hosting, AI/compute, internal tooling, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems; identify optimization opportunities across product infrastructure and corporate tech stack. - Translate roadmap and corporate priorities into financial tradeoffs: evaluate build vs. buy decisions, capitalizable vs. expensed R&D, and vendor investments across EPD. - Elevate budget vs. actuals rigor: lead monthly BvA reviews for EPD; automate reporting, improve accrual

Senior Finance Manager, Product & Engineering

Mixpanel is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with its Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organizations. This role will own infrastructure cost, EPD operating expense, and headcount planning while building scalable financial systems to improve visibility and decision-making, and developing analytical frameworks that guide how Mixpanel deploys capital and allocates resources across these areas. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product leadership, People, and Finance to ensure investments are intentional, efficient, and aligned with the long-term company strategy.

Responsibilities - Own the Product investment envelope: manage OpEx and headcount budgets across EPD; ensure investments align with strategy while maintaining efficiency and margin targets. - Drive workforce planning across technical and corporate teams: build bottoms-up headcount models by function and level; partner with Engineering leaders to sequence hiring against roadmap needs, compliance requirements, and scale. - Model infrastructure and internal systems economics: develop forecasting for cloud hosting, AI/compute, internal tooling, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems; identify optimization opportunities across product infrastructure and corporate tech stack. - Translate roadmap and corporate priorities into financial tradeoffs: evaluate build vs. buy decisions, capitalizable vs. expensed R&D, and vendor investments across EPD. - Elevate budget vs. actuals rigor: lead monthly BvA reviews for EPD; automate reporting, improve accrual