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ExaExaSan Francisco, CA

VP, Finance

First dedicated finance leader reporting to the co-founder, building the finance function from scratch and driving financial strategy, FP&A, and investor relations for a rapidly scaling AI search startup.

250k – 350k
On-site8+ YOEFinance & Accounting

About the role

Responsibilities

Build the Finance Function

  • Establish internal controls, systems, and processes to support scale and audit readiness
  • Bring core accounting and finance operations in-house
  • Hire and develop a high-caliber finance team from the ground up

Financial Planning & Analysis / Financial Operations

  • Build and own financial models and forecasting suited to a consumption-based API business
  • Own company-wide budgeting and scenario planning
  • Establish and refine FP&A processes that give leadership real financial visibility and support fast, data-driven decisions
  • Ensure the integrity of financial reporting and compliance with applicable regulations

Strategic Finance

  • Serve as a key strategic partner to the leadership team on all financial decisions - from pricing and unit economics to capital allocation
  • Partner with GTM on pricing, packaging, and strategic deal-making
  • Partner with Engineering on infrastructure and product decisions that carry unit-economic implications
  • Own capital allocation strategy and treasury

Fundraising & Investor Relations

  • Own investor reporting and board communications
  • Prepare Exa for future financing events - Series D and beyond

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
  • 8 - 15 years of finance experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth technology company
  • Strategic finance background: IB, PE, venture capital, or growth-stage operator experience
  • Track record building a finance function at a scaling startup
  • Deep fluency in financial modeling and FP&A for API/consumption-based business models
  • Hands-on experience managing compute costs in an infrastructure, AI, or usage-based business
  • Strong commercial instincts - ability to partner closely with GTM leadership on revenue strategy, pricing, and unit economics
  • Experience leading institutional fundraising
  • Exceptional communicator - concise, direct, and able to distill complex financial data into clear executive and board-level insights
  • Operator mentality: moves fast, builds from scratch, and thrives in ambiguity
  • Low ego, high accountability - a collaborator who earns trust through execution

Skills

Financial ModelingFP&ABudgetingForecastingFinancial ReportingInvestor RelationsFundraisingUnit EconomicsPricing StrategyTreasury Management

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