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About the Role

Via Licensing Alliance is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning to enhance financial planning, forecasting, business modeling, and strategic decision-support capabilities. This role will translate complex information into clear insights to support growth, resource allocation, and long-term business planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models for licensing programs, including revenue, royalty, participation, distribution, cost, margin, and profitability forecasts.
• Lead and support annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes.
• Build market-sizing and revenue models incorporating key commercial assumptions.
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to support new program development and decision-making.
• Evaluate alternative royalty structures, licensing models, pricing approaches, and commercial terms, and quantify their financial impact.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate new opportunities and develop investment and business cases.
• Track actual performance against forecasts, analyze variances, and identify business drivers.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and recurring reporting tools to monitor program performance.
• Analyze industry, technology, competitive, customer, and macroeconomic trends.
• Prepare executive and board-level presentations, financial analyses, strategic insights, and recommendations.
• Develop frameworks for prioritizing new initiatives based on expected financial return and strategic importance.
• Improve forecasting methodologies and establish consistent assumptions and analytical standards.
• Support cross-functional decision-making by translating complex information into actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, reporting tools, data quality, automation, and analytical capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to business leaders by providing financial guidance and proactive insights.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, corporate finance, business planning, licensing economics, consulting, investment analysis, or a related field.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including experience building revenue forecasts, scenario analyses, sensitivity models, business cases, valuation analyses, or long-range planning models.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial, operational, market, and commercial information into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience supporting annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, KPI reporting, or strategic planning processes in a complex business environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large or imperfect data sets, develop sound assumptions, and clearly explain key drivers and tradeoffs.
• Excellent business judgment and strategic thinking, with the ability to connect financial analysis to broader company priorities, market opportunities, and operational realities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready materials and explain complex financial concepts to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• High degree of ownership, initiative, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and accountability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or similar financial modeling tools.
• Experience in intellectual property, patent licensing, technology, media, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, professional services, or another data-intensive business environment is preferred.

Skills

• Financial modeling
• Revenue forecasts
• Scenario analyses
• Sensitivity models
• Business cases
• Valuation analyses
• Long-range planning
• Excel
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Salesforce
• CRM data
• ERP systems
• Planning tools
• Business intelligence platforms

Location

• San Francisco

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field required
• MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced degree or financial certification is preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $153,000 - $210,000

Benefits

• Flexible work options (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive compensation (base + bonus)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k) with 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible pay
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous holiday, vacation and sick leave
• Supportive maternity, child bonding, and family care leave programs
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Programs and resources to support physical, financial and social well being
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates and retreat
• Catered weekly lunch + snacks and drinks when working in the office
• Temporary remote work option for qualified positions
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

About the Company

• Via Licensing Alliance is the leader in collaborative licensing, advancing inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally.
• Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.
• Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership.
• We are the world's largest patent pool administrator.
• We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies.
• For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

Equal Opportunity

• Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.
• Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12.