San Jose
2 months ago

Job Overview

Job Type
FullTime
Pay
Not disclosed

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.com

Lumilens 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

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