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Granica · 1 day ago

Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$140K/yr - $180K/yr

Granica is an AI research and systems company building the infrastructure for a new kind of intelligence. They are seeking a Founding Head of Finance to lead Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A, and Company-Wide Performance Architecture, focusing on designing the financial engine and raising capital for long-term value creation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

Build audit, compliance, and governance frameworks for late-stage scale

Drive S-1 readiness, revenue recognition compliance, and investor-grade reporting

Hire and scale FP&A, accounting/controllership, revenue operations, and analytics

Transition from outsourced support to a high-velocity internal team

Qualification

Capital StrategyFundraisingFP&APerformance-based CompensationSaaS/AI EconomicsFinancial ModelingInvestor RelationsTeam BuildingOperational LeadershipRisk Management