Ziplines Education · 5 hours ago
Vice President Finance
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
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Responsibilities
Drive financial strategy: Own our financial plan—optimize it, rebuild it when needed, and lead us through our next Series B raise. You’ll bring the numbers to life in board decks and tell compelling stories that support our future growth.
Join the executive team: Be a vital part of our leadership team, acting not just as a CFO but a strategic operator who’s always thinking about the bigger picture.
Mentor & coach: Turn your team into finance superstars, helping them develop into the best versions of themselves while contributing to our company’s success.
Budgeting: Turn budget meetings into exciting, educational moments. You’ll teach our team how to think like you do—instilling financial literacy and decision-making across the company, especially with senior leaders.
Optimize operations: Balance accuracy and speed by creating scalable processes. From managing cash flow to implementing new billing systems, you’ll ensure we’re set up for success as we grow.
Lead FP&A: Drive a comprehensive financial process that’s data-driven and inclusive of all team inputs—quantitative and qualitative.
Build scalable systems: Create scalable financial processes for audits, end-of-month closes, ROI investment requests, and more.
Develop staffing plans: Partner with HR and the executive team to develop headcount release models and staffing plans that fit our growth goals.
Manage cash flow: Ensure efficient cash flow management, keeping us financially healthy and sustainable as we expand.
Oversee financial operations: Manage revenue recognition, procurement, scenario planning, AR/AP, and mitigate risks as needed.
Own client-facing financials: Lead financial conversations with university partners—explaining P&L ownership and resolving issues with clarity and confidence.
Qualification
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Detail-oriented: Accuracy is your top priority. Your accuracy is 100%, all the time.
Metrics-driven: You thrive on accountability and hold yourself to the same KPIs as our service teams.
Speed & precision: You move fast without compromising on detail. You prioritize, set expectations, and get it done.
Scale experience: You’ve helped take a company from $20M to $100M+, and you’ve navigated fundraising rounds (bonus points for being part of an exit).
Team builder: You’ve built teams that would follow you anywhere. You understand your gaps and hire talent to complement your strengths.
West Coast oriented: Ideally, you're on PST or comfortable working those hours, or at a minimum, being available as needed should something arise.
Drive financial strategy: Own our financial plan—optimize it, rebuild it when needed, and lead us through our next Series B raise. You’ll bring the numbers to life in board decks and tell compelling stories that support our future growth.
Join the executive team: Be a vital part of our leadership team, acting not just as a CFO but a strategic operator who’s always thinking about the bigger picture.
Mentor & coach: Turn your team into finance superstars, helping them develop into the best versions of themselves while contributing to our company’s success.
Budgeting: Turn budget meetings into exciting, educational moments. You’ll teach our team how to think like you do—instilling financial literacy and decision-making across the company, especially with senior leaders.
Optimize operations: Balance accuracy and speed by creating scalable processes. From managing cash flow to implementing new billing systems, you’ll ensure we’re set up for success as we grow.
Lead FP&A: Drive a comprehensive financial process that’s data-driven and inclusive of all team inputs—quantitative and qualitative.
Build scalable systems: Create scalable financial processes for audits, end-of-month closes, ROI investment requests, and more.
Develop staffing plans: Partner with HR and the executive team to develop headcount release models and staffing plans that fit our growth goals.
Manage cash flow: Ensure efficient cash flow management, keeping us financially healthy and sustainable as we expand.
Oversee financial operations: Manage revenue recognition, procurement, scenario planning, AR/AP, and mitigate risks as needed.
Own client-facing financials: Lead financial conversations with university partners—explaining P&L ownership and resolving issues with clarity and confidence.
Benefits
Equity: Ownership is a core value, and each full-time employee can invest in Ziplines Education via a stock option (equity) grant, which will vest across four years.
Time off: We offer a flexible paid time off policy, in addition to 10 paid holidays.
Flexible, remote work environment: We are a fully distributed team with folks all over the U.S. We meet as a full team at least one time per week and have in-person gatherings or team offsites one or more times per year.
Family health and wellness: Choose from a range of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans (premiums start at $0/month) for yourself or your family.
401K: We know your future self will thank you when you start contributing to your company-sponsored 401k.
Plus, additional benefits we’d be happy to share with you during the hiring process.
Company
Ziplines Education
Ziplines Education partners with universities to deliver industry-focused certificate courses.
Founded in 2017
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$6.4MKey Investors
Jackson Square VenturesWildcat Venture Partners
2024-02-21Series A· $6.4M
2020-06-23Seed· Undisclosed
2017-04-25Seed· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Sara Leoni
CEO
Juli Zarzour
V.P. of Operations
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