Tempo · San Francisco
Product & ProgramProductRemoteFullTimeposted 2mo ago
With over 30,000 customers, including a third of Fortune 500 companies, Tempo is trusted by organizations across the globe to make their workflows work better.
We create a suite of integrated solutions for time management, resource planning, budget management, roadmapping, program management, reporting and more. We create the tech that enables the modern team to deliver – for every step from first vision to value.
Since our beginning in 2007 as a project to make a time-tracking tool to help a client – Tempo has expanded to become the #1 time management add-on for Jira, and we have developed and acquired a multitude of tools to become one of the most trusted names in the Atlassian ecosystem.
We want everyone to work better – but we also want to be a tech company with a heart. Join us as we continuously innovate our award-winning products, create new solutions, and help the world work smarter, not harder.
About the Role
Financial Manager is the product that turns the data Tempo already captures – logged hours, planned capacity, and cost and billing rates from Jira, Capacity Planner, and Timesheets – into the project budgets, portfolio forecasts, CapEx/OpEx classifications, and earned-value metrics that team leads and PMO leaders defend in front of CFOs and auditors. It is the bridge between the operational truth Tempo’s suite already captures and the finance-grade outputs that Controllers, FP&A leaders, and auditors require. Closing that loop – from Timesheets and Capacity Planner through to the general ledger – is what transforms Tempo from a project management tool into a financial intelligence platform for strategic work.
Enterprise financial planning has a visibility problem. Three planning systems typically run in parallel inside an organization and rarely speak to one another: the CFO’s budget and forecast layer, the PMO’s work execution layer (where Tempo wins today), and the strategic portfolio layer that decides which initiatives get funded. Each holds only a partial truth. The opportunity is to make Tempo’s operational data finance-grade – pushing it up into CPM forecasts, down into accounting workflows, and out into ERP systems – with software capitalization (ASC 350-40 and IAS 38) as the highest-value entry point and the wedge into the CFO relationship.
We are looking for a creative systems thinker who understands enterprise finance from the inside – someone who has implemented financial planning systems, modeled budget cycles for large programs, or guided finance and FP&A teams through tooling transformations. The strongest candidate may not have “Product Manager” anywhere on their resume yet. They might be a finance consultant, an ERP implementation lead, a Big Four auditor who has moved into business leadership, or an enterprise solutions architect who has spent years watching organizations struggle to connect their financial plans to their actual portfolio execution.
If you know what a rolling forecast really takes, what the CFO asks for in the QBR, why capitalization workflows always end up in spreadsheets, and how to tell the difference between AI that creates verifiable value and AI that just generates output – this role was built for you.
What You’ll Do
Finance and budgeting touch nearly every other part of the product. You’ll drive strategy for this domain while working closely with Product Managers across Tempo’s ecosystem application portfolio.
We build in small, dedicated teams. You’ll work directly with engineering and design from problem definition through shipped features, with minimal handoff and maximum ownership. We use AI collaboratively throughout our work to streamline communication and accelerate delivery.
You’ll own:
Product strategy and roadmap for Financial Manager’s budgeting, cost, and billing capabilities.
Discovery with CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, and finance business partners – understanding how budget authority flows through a modern enterprise and what it actually takes to pass an audit.
The capitalization and expense recognition product surface – ASC 350-40 and IAS 38 workflows, cap schedule generation, journal entry export, and audit-grade traceability from time entry to GL.
How Financial Manager connects portfolio investment decisions to financial plans: scenario modeling, threshold governance, and continuous reforecasting.
Integration strategy with ERP and CPM systems (SAP, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, Adaptive, Anaplan, and others) – with a pragmatic, non-over-engineered approach that prioritizes batch uploads and existing API endpoints over bespoke direct integrations.
AI feature strategy for Financial Manager – identifying where AI addresses genuine, verifiable financial pain points and where it adds noise, and managing the quality, cost, and scalability tradeoffs of AI-assisted financial outputs.
Close partnership with Tempo’s integrations team and with finance-adjacent GSI partners (Big Four and boutique accounting firms) who represent a key distribution channel.
Who You Are
We care far more about deep domain knowledge than a traditional product management background. If you have lived inside this problem as a finance leader, FP&A analyst, Big Four auditor, ERP implementation consultant, or enterprise solutions architect, we want to talk to you.
Domain experience
4–8 years in enterprise finance, FP&A, ERP implementation, financial systems consulting, or public accounting.
You know what a rolling forecast really takes, what the CFO asks for in the QBR, and what it means for a financial output to pass the GL sniff test.
Experience with software capitalization workflows (ASC 350-40 / IAS 38), R&D cost classification, or audit preparation is a strong differentiator – this is the single highest-value problem in our roadmap.
Organizational fluency
Hands-on experience with how organizations actually budget large programs – cost centers, headcount planning, CapEx vs. OpEx treatment, and the approval workflows that govern all of it.
You’ve either worked at a Big Four firm or worked closely enough with auditors to know what they actually require and what they’ll push back on.
You understand who in an enterprise organization is absorbing the most financial governance pain – and you can speak their language credibly.
Tooling familiarity
You’ve worked with or around enterprise finance or ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or similar) and you know where they fall short.
You understand integration at a conceptual level: what it means to reshape data, when a batch upload is the right answer, and when a direct API integration is actually warranted versus over-engineered.
AI proficiency – required, not optional
This role requires genuine AI fluency, not familiarity. The right candidate is already using AI in their daily work and has developed a clear point of view on what AI can and cannot do reliably in financial contexts – knowing when AI creates verifiable value, and when it just creates output.
You understand the practical tradeoffs of AI in financial workflows: accuracy requirements, token cost at scale, the risk of outputs that look right but aren’t, and the governance implications of AI-assisted journal entries or cap schedules.
You can distinguish between AI that solves a genuine, measurable customer pain point and AI that aggregates data without answering the question the customer actually asked.
You are already thinking about how rapidly evolving AI models change the integration and automation calculus – specifically, what becomes simple in an MCP/agent-first world that is currently complex.
Communication and complexity tolerance
Finance workflows are precise and deeply opinionated. You can sift through complexity and produce clear, structured output for executive audiences.
You can write a crisp one-pager that earns alignment without calling a meeting.
Collaborative by default: you share plans and pivots early, because in a connected product system, few decisions are truly isolated.
Why Join Tempo?
Impact: Work on a product that is genuinely changing how enterprises manage financial intelligence across their strategic portfolios.
Ownership: Lead strategy for a domain that intersects with every other product Tempo builds – with real authority to shape the roadmap.
Timing: Tempo is in an active growth phase with a clear strategic thesis and PE backing. This is a founding-team-level opportunity on a new product surface.
Collaboration: Small, dedicated teams with minimal handoff and maximum context. You will work directly with engineering and design.
Innovation: AI is a first-class tool in our workflow, not an afterthought.
What’s In It For You
Remote-first work environment.
Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!
Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.
Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.
Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.
An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.
A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).
Optional in-person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices.
Employee referral program.
And so much more!
Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only.
Apply today to join the Tempo team and help shape the future of enterprise productivity software.
Join us at Tempo Software, where we proudly foster an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.