Senior Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning

Location: San Francisco, California, United States. Hybrid schedule with in-office presence required Tuesday through Thursday, three days per week.

Salary: $153,000–$210,000 base salary per year, plus bonus.

Company

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of hirify.global, administers patent licensing programs across audio, video, broadcast, power, and other technologies.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain financial models for existing and prospective patent licensing programs, including revenue, royalty, cost, margin, and profitability forecasts.
• Lead annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes.
• Build market-sizing, revenue, scenario, sensitivity, and risk models using technology adoption, pricing, royalty, participation, and penetration assumptions.
• Evaluate licensing models, royalty structures, pricing approaches, commercial terms, investment opportunities, and business cases.
• Track performance against forecasts, analyze variances, and develop dashboards, KPIs, and recurring reporting tools.
• Prepare executive- and board-level analyses, presentations, recommendations, and decision-support materials while partnering with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Legal, Program Management, Royalty Services, and technical teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, business planning, licensing economics, consulting, investment analysis, or a related field.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, business case, and long-range planning skills.
• Experience with annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, KPI reporting, or strategic planning in a complex business environment.
• Ability to analyze large or imperfect data sets, develop sound assumptions, and communicate financial insights and tradeoffs clearly.
• Excellent communication, presentation, business judgment, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field; advanced Excel or comparable financial modeling skills required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce, CRM data, ERP systems, planning tools, or other business intelligence platforms.
• Experience in intellectual property, patent licensing, technology, media, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, professional services, or another data-intensive environment.
• MBA, CPA, CFA, or another advanced degree or financial certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible 9/80 work schedule for U.S. employees, including every other Friday off.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contribution.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible contributions and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Holiday, vacation, sick leave, family care leave, disability benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
• Temporary remote work may be available for qualified positions for up to 30 calendar days or 20 workdays per 12-month period with approval.
• Office meals, snacks, drinks, team events, all-company updates, and retreats.