Head of Finance
$190,000–$275,000 year
On-siteNew York, United States or Brooklyn, New York, United States
Job Summary
Own the operating model by rolling 3-statement forecasts, long-range plans, and annual budgets. Build revenue and capacity forecasts based on deployment economics, including robots in the field, utilization, and autonomy rates. Own unit economics per robot and deployment to ground pricing decisions, while managing the 13-week cash forecast and runway against hiring and hardware spend. Lead monthly closes, management reporting, and financial reviews with department leads, preparing board and investor materials for the next fundraise. Partner with hardware and supply chain teams on BOM costs, vendor terms, inventory, and capex planning. Own financial operations across AP/AR, payroll, spend control, treasury, insurance, and tax, and hire the finance team from scratch as we scale. This on-site role in New York City requires frequent travel and fits a high-autonomy environment for a leader building the function from nothing.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years across FP&A, strategic finance, banking, PE, or consulting, with real operating time inside a company
- You've built models, processes, and reporting from nothing
- Advanced modeling and scenario work; you're fast and accurate in a spreadsheet
- You understand hardware businesses: COGS, margin structure, inventory, manufacturing, and how they behave differently from software
- You can connect a financial result back to the operational driver that caused it, and explain it in a sentence
- You thrive in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. You don't need to be told what the top priority is
- Location: This is a on-site role based in New York City, with frequent travel.
Desired Qualifications
- Early-stage or venture-backed startup experience, ideally through a Series A+ scale-up
- Robotics, autonomous systems, or advanced manufacturing background
- Experience with RaaS, usage-based, or other non-seat-based revenue models
- SQL, BI tools, or comfort pulling your own data instead of asking for it
- Experience standing up or migrating an ERP
- You've built AI/agent-assisted workflows into a finance function
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