# Strategic Finance Lead

**Company:** [Agentio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/agentio)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $200k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Unit Economics, Capital Allocation, Scenario Planning, Incentive Design, Pricing Strategy, Marketplace Economics, Experiment Design, Long-Range Forecasting, Ai Data Tools
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Founding Strategic Finance Lead reporting to VP Finance & Ops. Own capital allocation, marketplace economic modeling, incentive design, pricing strategy, and long-range forecasting for a high-growth AI marketplace startup.

## Job Description

## What you’ll own

The main job is capital allocation. You frame the big spend decisions (the next dollar of incentive, headcount, or product investment), build the business case, and bring a real point of view instead of a menu of options. You’ll do that by:

### Marketplace dynamics & liquidity economics
- Build and maintain the economic model of the marketplace: take rate, fill rate, match rate, wallet share, ad spend (the north star), and how they move together.
- Diagnose liquidity health as a financial question, not just an ops one — where bids go unfilled, where supply sits idle, and what each is costing us.
- Translate flywheel mechanics into dollars: quantify how a change on one side of the market compounds through to Ad Spend and net revenue.

### Incentive design & testing
- Partner closely with Eng, Product, and Data Science to own incentive design and its financial impact.
- Design creator- and brand-side incentive experiments end-to-end: hypothesis, financial model, success criteria, and the readout that decides whether it scales or dies.
- Own the economics of live experiments, including the counterfactual and the breakeven.

### Pricing & packaging strategy
- Own pricing strategy across both sides of the marketplace, including take-rate structure, tiered pricing, creator earnings floors, and sensitivity modeling.
- Model the second-order effects: what a pricing move does to supply behavior, demand elasticity, and net revenue, not just the first-order rate change.
- Partner with Product Marketing on pricing and packaging.

### Forecasting & long-range planning
- Build and own the long-range model and the bottoms-up projection blocks that leadership and the board run against.
- Drive scenario planning and the "what would have to be true" cases behind each major bet.
- Connect the forecast to operating reality: when actuals diverge, find the driver and feed it back into the model and the strategy.

## What we’re looking for
- 6-10 years across banking, marketplaces, consumer, or high-growth companies where you've owned a number and felt the difference between a model that's right and a bet that worked.
- You think in unit economics and second-order effects, not just totals. You instinctively ask what a change does to the other side of the market.
- You've designed experiments, not just analyzed them after the fact. You know how to structure a test so the readout is decision-grade.
- You're a builder. You'd rather ship a rough model that changes a decision this week than a perfect one next month (speed > precision when it's a two-way door).
- You bring a point of view and can defend it with insight, then commit when the call goes the other way.
- You’re fluent in AI data tools to get your own answers instead of waiting in a queue.

## Benefits & Perks
- Flexible PTO – Take the time you need to recharge
- Comprehensive Health Coverage – Top medical plan through Aetna
- Dental & Vision Plans – Protect your smile and your sight with coverage from Guardian
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Invest in your future while you build your career
- $100 Monthly Lifestyle Credit – Use it to shop with our amazing Agentio Brand Partners
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
- Dinner provided Monday - Thursday
- Gym in the building!

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