Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

Job description

INTRODUCTION 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. 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 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. 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 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.