# Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

**Company:** [Granica](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/granica)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $140k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, FP&A, Capital Raising, Venture Capital, Saas Economics, Pricing Strategy, Forecasting, Ipo Readiness, Performance Compensation, Board Reporting, Unit Economics, Revenue Recognition
**Posted:** 2025-12-18

> Founding Head of Finance to lead capital strategy, FP&A, and performance systems for a high-growth AI infrastructure startup. Requires experience raising $50M+ rounds and scaling from Series B to IPO.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Own

### Capital Strategy & Fundraising
- Partner with the CEO to lead $50M–$100M+ growth rounds across Series B+
- Own the long-range financial model, capital strategy, and investor narrative
- Build and manage relationships with top-tier venture, growth, and crossover investors
- Lead diligence, investor Q&A, and board-level financial communications

### Strategic Finance, FP&A & Systems
- Build forecasting, scenario modeling, pricing, and long-range planning systems
- Establish the operating discipline required to scale through Series B, C, D → IPO
- Drive analysis across unit economics, GTM efficiency, R&D leverage, and infra cost modeling
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales to align economics with roadmap and GTM scale

### Enterprise Economics
- Translate system-level and technical value into CFO-relevant outcomes: infrastructure cost reduction, margin expansion, and multi-year cost predictability
- Apply firsthand experience evaluating large-scale data, cloud, or infrastructure spend to pressure-test pricing, ROI models, and replacement economics
- Act as an internal proxy for enterprise CFO decision-making, anticipating concerns around switching costs, procurement, risk, and budget governance
- Inform early design-partner conversations and commercial structuring by embedding economic-buyer judgment into product, pricing, and GTM strategy

### Performance & Compensation Architecture
- Design and operationalize a company-wide performance-based compensation system (NPUs)
- Build KPI-driven models for engineering, research, GTM, and operations
- Own governance, payout logic, and transparency across total rewards

### Operational & Strategic Leadership
- Lead planning cycles, resource allocation, and financial readiness
- Build global reporting and financial systems that scale with enterprise demand
- Partner with the CEO on board materials, product strategy, pricing, and market expansion

### Risk, Controls & IPO Readiness
- Build audit, compliance, and governance frameworks for late-stage scale
- Drive S-1 readiness, revenue recognition compliance, and investor-grade reporting

### Team Building
- Hire and scale FP&A, accounting/controllership, revenue operations, and analytics
- Transition from outsourced support to a high-velocity internal team

## What You Bring
- Experience raising $50M–$100M+ for a high-growth startup
- Scaled a company from Series B/C → Series D → IPO readiness
- Deep expertise in performance-based compensation systems across technical and GTM teams
- Hands-on ownership of FP&A, pricing, forecasting, and model optimization
- Strong understanding of SaaS/AI infrastructure economics (usage-based preferred)
- Ability to operate at founder altitude with clarity, speed, and disciplined execution

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and substantial bonus for top performers
- Flexible time off plus comprehensive health coverage for you and your family
- Support for research, publication, and deep technical exploration

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