Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- San Jose, United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Senior FP&A lead in California with a tightly scoped operational mandate: own FP&A for the US R&D lab, lead revenue management for the Hyperscaler customer segment, and act as US country controller for the US-listed entity.
Responsibilities
- Own US R&D lab budgeting, forecasting, project-level cost tracking, and capex planning
- Lead revenue management for Hyperscaler customers — pricing, contract economics, deal review, revenue recognition, customer profitability
- Act as US country controller — own US entity close, statutory reporting, tax filings, audit support, and internal controls
- Partner with US sales leadership on revenue forecasting, commission planning, and deal economics for Hyperscaler accounts
- Support board reporting and investor relations content tied to US operations and the Hyperscaler segment
- Drive long-range planning for US R&D investment and Hyperscaler revenue strategy
- Drive automation across US FP&A and controllership processes
Required Qualifications (all mandatory)
- CPA / CFA / MBA
- 10-15 years of FP&A or strategic finance experience
- Tech industry FP&A / strategic finance experience OR engineering degree combined with an MBA
- Ability to operate in a startup, unstructured, ambiguous environment
- Strong operational FP&A experience — manufacturing, supply chain, or hardware cost analysis
- Proven business partnering with operations and commercial leaders
- Advanced financial modeling; comfort with large datasets
Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Technology / hardware / semiconductor / FMCG industry experience
- Manufacturing cost accounting exposure
- Track record of building and developing finance teams and processes from scratch.
- US MNC experience — controller or senior finance leader inside a US-headquartered multinational
- Role:
- Sr. Manager/Director FP&A
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
lumilens
lumilens.comLumilens is a photonics company that builds optical interconnects to scale out and scale up AI compute infrastructure in data centers. Its products range from chip-to-chip optical interconnects to scalable photonic engines, made with custom robotics and AI-optimized production processes. The company ships optical interconnect products to hyperscaler AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement, has announced more than $900M in funding, and is backed by Mayfield. Its leadership team comes from Cisco, Juniper, Meta, Lumentum and Coherent.
- Founders
- Ankur Singla, Ritesh Kapahi, Samuel Liu, Dave Friedman, Ted Schmidt
- Key Investors
- Mayfield