About the Job
Our Mission: To make business accessible and understandable to everyone. We believe that teams that understand the “why” behind their work are more productive and make better decisions. True alignment and collaboration come from having a shared source of truth that everyone understands.
Our Approach: Runway replaces traditional spreadsheets with a modern planning platform that brings clarity and context to business operations for all teams — not just finance. Just as Figma made design accessible across the organization, Runway does the same for business planning.
Why It Matters: Understanding requires more than just access to numbers; real collaboration happens when teams see how their work fits into the bigger picture. By providing this context, Runway helps teams save time and move faster.
Key Responsibilities
You'll lead and scale our engineering team during a critical growth phase. This means building a high-performing team, establishing engineering excellence, and shipping products that help finance teams become true strategic partners to their organizations.
Day to day, you'll be hiring exceptional engineers, setting technical direction alongside our founders, unblocking your team, and fostering a culture where people do the best work of their careers. You'll be hands-on enough to make architectural decisions when needed, while spending most of your time multiplying the impact of others.
Required Skills & Abilities
Demonstrated success building engineering teams at high-growth startups (Series A through growth stage)
Track record of improving team output—increasing shipping cadence (especially through the use of AI), making incidents rare, and accelerating hiring velocity
Experience building a culture of high standards where engineers are proud of what they ship
Strong full-stack engineering background that allows you to be the architectural tie-breaker when needed
Track record of guiding teams to strong technical outcomes
Experience with our stack: React/TypeScript + Go
Data engineering background
Founder experience (YC or equivalent) with firsthand understanding of building from zero to one
Fintech, SaaS, or B2B software background
Passion for making complex financial concepts accessible to non-finance users
Team growth: Successfully hiring and retaining exceptional engineers
Shipping velocity: Increasing the pace and quality of what we deliver to customers
Engineering health: Reducing incidents, improving reliability, and maintaining technical excellence
Team engagement: Building a team where people are excited to come to work
Impact: Help finance teams operate like strategic partners, not spreadsheet managers.
Innovation: Work on the frontier of fintech and business intelligence.
Growth: Shape the engineering culture and practices of a company at an inflection point.
At Runway, our commitment to our mission goes hand in hand with our dedication to cultivating the next generation of entrepreneurs. Around 10% of our team members have been founders themselves, and several early employees have successfully exited to start their own ventures - some backed by our founder Siqi Chen, who has invested in over 200 startups to date.
By stepping into this role, you'll help shape and grow an array of customer businesses, gaining firsthand insights into diverse operational strategies, monetization models, and long-term vision planning. Paired with our open and transparent culture, Runway offers a uniquely supportive environment for those aspiring to launch their own company in the future.
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The base salary range for this full-time position is $240,000 - $280,000 + generous early employee equity + benefits. The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.
