Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

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 .