Head of Finance
The Head of Finance will own financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and board reporting, working closely with founders on capital allocation, infrastructure investment, and financing strategy. This role requires an exceptional financial modeler with strong business judgment.
About the job
About the Role
This is not a traditional SaaS finance role. Yes, you'll own forecasting, planning, reporting, and the core finance function. But you'll also work directly with the founders on some of the company's most important decisions:
- How should we allocate capital as Blacksmith scales?
- How much infrastructure should we invest in and when?
- How do we balance growth, reliability, and capital efficiency?
- How should we finance infrastructure growth through a combination of equity, cash flow, and debt?
- How do we think about pricing, margins, and long-term unit economics?
- When should we raise capital and how much? You'll help build the financial foundation for a company that sits at the intersection of software and large-scale infrastructure. As Blacksmith scales, we expect infrastructure investment to become a major use of capital. We're looking for someone who can help us think through not only how much capacity to build, but how that growth should be financed.
What You'll Do
- Own financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and board reporting.
- Build models to support company planning and strategic decision-making.
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to forecast infrastructure investment and capacity requirements.
- Own cash forecasting, treasury management, capital planning, and financing strategy.
- Analyze pricing, margins, and business performance.
- Support fundraising, investor relations, and strategic projects.
- Build the systems and processes that will scale with the company.
You Are a Good Fit If You
- Have 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a high-growth technology company.
- Are an exceptional financial modeler.
- Enjoy solving ambiguous, first-principles problems.
- Can communicate effectively with both engineers and executives.
- Have strong business judgment and a bias toward action.
- Want to work closely with founders and help shape company strategy.
- Understand how high-growth companies finance expansion and think strategically about capital structure.
- Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in SF.
Bonus
- Experience in an infrastructure, cloud, or developer tools company.
- Experience with consumption-based businesses.
- Experience with fundraising, capital planning, debt facilities, equipment financing, or infrastructure-intensive businesses.
- Experience building a finance function from the ground up.
Compensation and benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
- Competitive base + equity.
- 401K match.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Annual offsite.
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
Skills
Financial Modeling, FP&A, Treasury Management, Capital Planning, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Budgeting
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