Sr Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. 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.

As Senior Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning, you will play a key role in strengthening Via’s financial planning, forecasting, business modeling, and strategic decision-support capabilities. This role will partner closely with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and executive leadership to translate complex market, licensing, operational, and financial information into clear insights that support growth, resource allocation, and long-term business planning.

The ideal candidate will bring strong financial acumen, analytical rigor, business judgment, and the ability to build scalable planning tools and models in a complex, technology-driven licensing environment. This individual must be comfortable working with large data sets, developing assumptions-based forecasts, evaluating licensing economics, and preparing clear recommendations for senior leaders.

This is a highly cross-functional role that requires both strategic perspective and strong execution. The Senior Manager will help Via improve forecasting discipline, evaluate new and existing licensing programs, develop financial models for strategic initiatives, and create consistent analytical frameworks that support informed decision-making across the organization. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco and requires in-office presence three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models for existing and prospective 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, translating business objectives into measurable financial and operating plans.
• Build market-sizing and revenue models incorporating technology adoption, unit volumes, pricing, royalty structures, penetration rates, program participation, and other key commercial assumptions.
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to support new program development, commercial negotiations, licensing strategy, strategic initiatives, and executive decision-making.
• Evaluate alternative royalty structures, licensing models, pricing approaches, and commercial terms, and quantify their financial impact on Via and participating stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and technical teams to evaluate new opportunities and develop investment and business cases.
• Track actual performance against forecasts, analyze material variances, and identify the underlying business, market, operational, or licensing drivers behind performance trends.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and recurring reporting tools to monitor program performance, pipeline development, licensee penetration, revenue growth, cost trends, and other strategic priorities.
• Analyze industry, technology, competitive, customer, and macroeconomic trends that could affect licensing revenues, royalty flows, program economics, or long-term strategic plans.
• Prepare executive and board-level presentations, financial analyses, strategic insights, and recommendations that clearly communicate…