Controller

About the Opportunity:

The developer landscape is changing from 17 million technical developers to 3 billion people using Agents to build apps and sites. Netlify is positioned at the center of this shift, and we’re building a world-class finance function that not only meets compliance requirements but also fuels company-wide insights and efficiency.

Netlify’s Finance Accounting team plays a pivotal role in enabling strategic decision-making and long-term growth. As stewards of financial integrity, the team ensures accurate reporting, scalable systems, and operational excellence. The Controller role exists to support this transformation: leading key accounting processes, collaborating cross-functionally, and helping drive our path to audit readiness and financial maturity.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and manage all compliance-related functions, including payroll, procurement, billing, collections, tax, treasury, and audit, ensuring rigorous adherence to evolving standards.
• Partner cross-functionally with teams like Sales, Customer Success, Procurement, and RevOps to proactively support contract structure, billing, and revenue processes with clarity and accountability.
• Prepare and review financial reports, including statutory filings, while building collaborative relationships with external auditors and internal teams across regions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline finance workflows through tooling, lightweight internal app development, or AI-powered solutions, bringing a curious and systems-minded approach to how we scale
• Drive scalable, inclusive process improvements across the order-to-cash and payables cycles, balancing structure with flexibility to meet the needs of a high-volume, product-led SaaS environment.
• Leverage and adapt financial systems such as NetSuite, Orb, and Airbase, with openness to exploring new tools or building lightweight internal applications to reduce manual work and increase efficiency.
• Maintain audit readiness and ongoing compliance with evolving US GAAP, tax, and jurisdictional standards, helping ensure financial integrity and operational clarity.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives, including tooling evaluations and deeper use of systems like Snowflake to support thoughtful, data-informed decision-making.
• Foster a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, surfacing insights from customer and transactional data, identifying trends, and collaborating on solutions that help move the business forward.
• Collaborate closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams to drive finance transformation, focusing on improving workflows, implementing systems, and advancing automation in an inclusive and scalable way.

What You'll Bring:

• Meaningful accounting leadership experience, ideally blending public accounting and in-house operational roles at high-transaction, product-led SaaS companies
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, tax compliance, revenue recognition, and how to apply accounting principles across systems and processes
• Hands-on exposure to financial systems like NetSuite, Orb, or Zuora, and confidence working with large datasets in tools like Excel or Snowflake
• Proven ability to adapt in high-growth, evolving environments, bringing structure without overengineering and helping the business scale efficiently
• Experience documenting accounting policies, maintaining internal controls, and contributing to audit readiness
• Curiosity and systems thinking: interested in learning how tools, workflows, and even lightweight internal app-building can drive business impact
• A collaborative and proactive working style, with a track record of partnering cross-functionally to support deal structure, billing, and revenue processes
• A thoughtful approach to leadership and able to build and support inclusive, high-performing teams while operating independently when needed
• We welcome candidates based in North America for this position

This Role is a Great Fit If:

• You’re energized by building and refining, whether it’s improving workflows, evolving systems, or documenting processes that help others move faster
• You enjoy applying your accounting expertise to new and nuanced challenges, especially in a product-led, high-volume environment
• You’re excited by the potential of AI and internal app-building, and you see opportunities to experiment with automation or lightweight tools to reduce friction
• You feel confident navigating ambiguity and are excited to help shape how things are done
• You’re naturally curious and motivated to learn, especially when it comes to systems, tooling, and understanding how things connect across the business
• You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy building relationships across teams like Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps
• You’re drawn to roles where finance plays a strategic role, not just one that reports the numbers
• You prefer working with a team that supports one another, shares wins, and believes in progress over perfection

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include:

A resume or short listing of your job history skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts.

Of everything we've ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know by emailing accomodations@netlify.com.

About Netlify

Netlify is the most popular way to build, deploy and scale modern web applications. Home to millions of developers and thousands of enterprises, Netlify is the platform of choice for running modern composable web applications in production, from global corporate sites to complex e-commerce and SaaS applications.

We are a Series D company that has raised over $200M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, EQT, Bessemer, BOND, and Menlo Ventures. As a fully distributed company, we aim to create a company culture where the best idea can come from anywhere and strive to be thoughtful, compassionate, and collaborative in our work. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’re excited to connect with you!

At Netlify, we are committed to equal pay for equal work. Our base compensation for this role is targeted at $170,000 - $230,000 for US-based locations. Netlify anchors our compensation philosophy on a market-based approach, therefore salary ranges may differ depending on the cost of labor in a particular location. For example, the top of the range reflects the highest paying market in the US and above range for many US cities. In addition to robust benefits, participation in Netlify’s equity plan, and incentive pay/commission for eligible roles. The starting pay will be determined based on multiple factors, including expertise and skills, market demands, experience, internal equity, and applicable geographic location. These compensation packages and ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your Talent Acquisition partner will be available to answer any questions about this policy and/or the compensation range of your specific location during the hiring process.