Director of Financial Systems (Remote - United States)

Director of Business Technology

At Yelp, we value a collaborative and innovative approach to solving business challenges. Our Business Technology team empowers Yelp's financial operations and helps shape our $1.41B revenue pipeline.

As Director of Business Technology, you will drive the next generation of financial platforms at the intersection of finance, engineering, and technology, requiring both visionary leadership and deep technical expertise. You'll be responsible for the financial platforms that underpin our complex revenue streamsfrom multi-format ad marketplaces to SaaS offerings and consumer transactions. You'll work cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Commerce Engineering teams to ensure financial accuracy, drive innovation, and support Yelp's expanding business and product lines.

You'll lead a diverse team, including Oracle specialists, data engineers, and business systems analysts distributed across the US, Canada, and the UK. With most of your time shaped by strategic vision and long-term planning, and the remainder focused on operational excellence, you'll have the chance to define and implement transformative strategies especially related to AI / ML for data analysis and anomaly detection. In this remote role, your impact will directly empower Yelp's financial operations and future scalability.

Are you eager to take on strategic challenges and scale dynamic, distributed teams? Do you want to define long-term architectural direction for financial systems and build future-ready teams around AI / ML? If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk!

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular state within the US. We welcome applicants from throughout the US. We'd love to have you apply, even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we're looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What You'll Do :

• Develop and drive a multi-year technology strategy for Yelp's financial systems, with particular focus on integrating AI / ML for data analysis, reporting, planning, and anomaly detection.
• Lead multiple software development teams in architecting financial solutions at scale, ensuring systems support Yelp's diverse and growing business, including complex revenue and billing models.
• Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members fostering both their day-to-day success and long-term professional growth.
• Facilitate technical conversations and critical decision-making around architecture and data flow with finance and engineering leaders, balancing priorities of compliance, risk, and business needs.
• Identify and execute on key initiatives to continuously improve financial system architecture, data flows, integration standards, and SOX compliance practices.
• Partner directly with executive leadership, including VPs and the CFO, aligning technology strategy with immediate and future business needschallenging assumptions and driving innovation where needed.
• Hire and build a high-performing, inclusive team that reflects Yelp's values, ensuring a fun, diverse, and growth-minded engineering culture.

What It Takes To Succeed :

Proven platform experience delivering new features and products through high-performing teams, with a strong solutions architecture background in complex financial environments (e.g. Oracle, Anaplan, and Zuora).

Hands-on experience in software engineering and leadership, including architecting major systems, coaching and growing highly capable teams of engineers and analysts, and their managers.

Technical depth in making architectural and design decisions for scalable, compliant financial platforms. Skilled at evaluating trade-offs between time-to-market, flexibility, and regulatory requirements.

Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-makers and align diverse stakeholders.

History of creating and executing long-term technical vision, with proven examples of product or infrastructure roadmaps you have established that delivered incremental and long-term business value.

Experience working with Agile methodologies in regulated financial system environments, maintaining data integrity and SOX compliance within fast-paced, iterative development cycles.

Strategic thinker with a deep understanding of AI / ML and its practical application in automating, analyzing, and safeguarding financial systems at scale.

What You'll Get :

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human : race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include "Playing Well With Others" and "Authenticity."

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.

Actual salary offered may vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, an individual's location and experience. We will consider for employment qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law (including, for example, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for roles based in San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for roles based in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, and the California Fair Chance Act for roles based in California).

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

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