Smartsheet has tapped Josh Schauer as its new Chief Financial Officer, charging him with scaling a business that already boasts over 120,000 customers and a massive $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. Schauer, who succeeds interim CFO Kurt Shintaffer, enters a revamped C-suite at a moment when the firm is pivoting from a traditional work management platform to an AI-first enterprise powerhouse.
Schauer transitions from his role as CFO at insightsoftware, bringing a playbook refined through senior leadership stints at Longview Solutions and Verisae. His arrival completes a significant leadership overhaul at Smartsheet, following the recent appointments of new chief marketing, customer, and business officers.
Under CEO Rajeev Singh, Schauer will anchor the financial strategy behind Smartsheet's "context-aware" AI agents, ensuring that investments in machine learning translate into measurable enterprise value. The goal is to move beyond generic automation into personalized, open-architecture AI that compounds in value based on unique organizational work patterns. As Singh noted, Schauer’s tech-heavy background makes him the ideal partner to "transform our business and invest boldly in enterprise AI to fuel our next phase of growth."
