Strategic Finance Manager, R&D

About the Position

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Manager, R&D to be the dedicated finance partner to our R&D leadership team. This role is designed for someone who is equal parts strategist, analyst, and operator - comfortable building a forecast model from a blank sheet in the morning and challenging an SVP on the ROI of a roadmap bet in the afternoon.

You'll own the financial story of R&D end to end: headcount planning across a global engineering and product organization, software and vendor spend, and our rapidly growing AI and cloud infrastructure cost base. You'll bring rigor to how we prioritize investments, build the unit economics that explain how our AI products actually make (and cost) money, and partner with R&D leaders to systematically optimize where every dollar lands. You'll also be one of the first finance hires expected to use AI in the work itself – automating repetitive analysis, accelerating model builds, and turning hours of manual reporting into minutes.

This is a hybrid role based in our Amsterdam hub.

Responsibilities

• R&D Financial Planning & Forecasting: Own the end-to-end planning, forecasting, and monthly close commentary for R&D, including headcount, software, and AI/cloud infrastructure spend, with a high bar for forecast accuracy and clear executive narratives.
• Headcount Strategy & Workforce Planning: Partner with R&D leadership and People Operations to model and manage one of the company's largest headcount footprints - building hiring plans, location strategies, and capacity scenarios that balance velocity with discipline.
• AI Cost Strategy & Optimization: Build the unit-economics models that explain our AI cost base (cost per active user, per feature, per inference) and lead cross-functional initiatives with R&D, Procurement, and Infrastructure to drive measurable reductions in unit cost without slowing the roadmap.
• Investment Cases & Strategic Decision Support: Build the financial cases behind major R&D bets - build-vs-buy on AI tooling, model and provider selection, infrastructure commits, and large product investments - and bring a clear recommendation, not just analysis.
• AI-Powered Finance Operations: Act as one of Strategic Finance's leading voices on how to use AI to do our own job better, identifying and prototyping opportunities to automate variance analysis, reporting, and modeling workflows.
• Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Partnership: Prepare board, ELT, and operating-review materials that translate complex R&D economics into clear stories, and act as the trusted finance counterpart to R&D Stream Leads day to day.

Requirements

• 5+ years in strategy/management consulting, investment banking, strategic FP&A, BizOps, or corporate strategy, ideally with exposure to a high-growth SaaS or cloud-native business.
• Advanced financial modeling skills (forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, cohort analysis) and the ability to triangulate insights across messy, multi-source data.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior technical stakeholders (engineering, product, infrastructure leaders) and influencing decisions without authority.
• Strong interest in - and ideally hands-on familiarity with - AI/cloud cost dynamics and using AI tools to make finance work faster and better.
• Exceptional communication skills: you can take a complex financial topic and turn it into a one-pager an SVP can act on.
• Bias to action and comfort with ambiguity; you frame the problem yourself before solving it.
• Familiarity with SaaS business models and subscription revenue dynamics.

We Offer

We want you to feel supported, connected, and ready to grow. Our global benefits package generally includes equity, a wellbeing benefit, a WFH equipment allowance, and an annual Learning & Development stipend. Join a diverse team where you can do your best work. Full benefits may differ per location. If you would like to learn more about location-specific benefits, please refer to our Global Miro benefits board.

About the Company

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission - Empower teams to create the next big thing - is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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How we hire

• Recruiter Screen: A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.
• Hiring Manager: The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.
• Skill Assessment: An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.
• Meet the Team: Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture.
• Leadership Round: Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro.

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