Granica
Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development
6mo ago
140000 –180000 USD / yearUSAHeadfinancial modelingfundraisingcapital strategyforecastingscenario modelinginvestor relationsfp&a
Lead the finance function focusing on strategic finance, capital markets, FP&A, and company-wide performance architecture for a structured AI company.
Requirements
- 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.
Conditions
- 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.
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus for top performers
- 401(k) with company match, comprehensive health coverage, and unlimited PTO
- Daily catered meals in our Mountain View office
- Support for research, publication, and conference participation
- At Granica, you'll help build the next generation of enterprise AI —from exabyte-scale data infrastructure , Large Tabular Models (LTMs) , and stateful AI agents . Together, we're creating the infrastructure that enables enterprises to own their data , own the intelligence built on it , and scale both efficiently .
Other
- As we scale toward a generational structured AI company, we’re hiring our Founding Head of Finance to lead Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A, and Company-Wide Performance Architecture.
- This role is for a finance leader who wants to help build a generational company—designing the financial engine, raising capital, and creating a performance model tied directly to long-term value creation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Translate Granica’s 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 versus incumbent providers.
- 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.
- Ensure Granica’s financial story resonates under both investor diligence and enterprise customer scrutiny.
- 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.
- Build audit, compliance, and governance frameworks for late-stage scale.
- Drive S-1 readiness, revenue recognition compliance, and investor-grade reporting.
- Hire and scale FP&A, accounting/controllership, revenue operations, and analytics.
- Transition from outsourced support to a high-velocity internal team.