Chief Financial Officer

Role Description

You're the person founders trust with the actual numbers. Not the deck numbers — the real ones. You've sat across from term sheets, payroll runs, and bad quarters, and you've kept your head. You know when to spend and when to wait. You can build a model from scratch and explain it to someone who's never seen one.

We're growing faster than our finance function. That's a good problem until it isn't. Right now decisions about burn, hiring pace, and runway are happening in spreadsheets the founders made themselves. That worked at twelve people. It won't work at fifty.

You'll be our first finance hire. No controller. No FP&A team. No fractional CFO to hand off from. You report to the CEO. Directly. You build the entire function: how we forecast, how we close the books, how we make capital decisions, how we tell our story to investors when it's time to raise again.

What You'll Actually Do

• Own the numbers end-to-end: accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, audit, board reporting.
• Build the model that runs the company: a living forecast that informs hiring costs, deal impacts on runway, and potential misses.
• Manage the cash: decide how it's deployed, where it sits, and how long it lasts.
• Run the next raise: partner with the co-founders on diligence, data room, and investor questions.
• Be the adult in the room on big decisions: real estate, equity, comp bands, vendor contracts.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the co-founders: provide financial partnership and push back when necessary.

How You'll Know It's Working

• The founders make decisions faster because the numbers are clear.
• The board pack writes itself; investors get what they need without follow-up.
• Month-end close happens on time, every time, without drama.
• The diligence process for the next round is short because the data room is already real.
• We never get surprised by cash.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in finance, with at least 3 years as a CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance at a venture-backed startup.
• Operator, not just an analyst: experience in building models, signing leases, firing vendors, and sitting through audits.
• Fluent in startup finance: SaaS metrics, ARR vs bookings, deferred revenue, equity dilution, 409A.
• Founder mentality: thrive with ambiguity, move fast, and figure things out.
• Remote, Warsaw, or Munich: work fully remote or join us in our Warsaw or Munich office.

Why This Role Is Different

• No layers: you report directly to the CEO and own the function outright.
• The decisions you shape will define the company: capital allocation is strategy.
• The product makes the story easier: building AI agents that do real work for real businesses.
• The co-founders already believe finance is strategic; you won't spend time convincing anyone of its importance.

Even Better If

• You've taken a company through a Series B or C and know what changes at each stage.
• You've been in the room for an acquisition — either side of the table.
• You've worked at a company where the founders were deeply involved in finance and you loved it.

How We Work

• Small team, high trust, low process: decisions made by owners, not committees.
• You will ship your first week and talk to users your first day.
• No alignment meetings or stakeholder syncs: we build, see if it works, and iterate.
• Everyone owns something real: a surface of the company that customers depend on.
• We use Viktor to build Viktor: see your work in action every day.

Why Viktor

This is a rare window. The product works, the market is pulling, and the team is small enough that what you do next week will be live in production next week.

Compensation

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and the kind of ownership that only exists at this stage.
• Onsite preferred in Munich, New York, or Warsaw.