VP of Finance
Lead finance as VP on the executive team: own FP&A, fundraising, board reporting, SaaS metrics, and partner with GTM/Product/Ops to scale a high-growth venture-backed real estate tech company.
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 – 350kSan Francisco, CAFinance & AccountingOnsite8+ YOE
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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