Brainco

Director of Strategic Finance

San Francisco Bay Area · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 37 days ago

DatabricksAccountingForecastingBudgetingFP&ACadencePatient CareLeadership

About the role

This is a foundational leadership role at Brain Co.
You'll join at a pivotal moment: a $55M Series A, a team of 70+, and fast-growing enterprise engagements across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.
You won't inherit a mature finance stack or playbook.

Own the company-wide operating model: revenue forecasting, headcount planning, expense budgets, and scenario analysis
Own cash, runway, and burn: manage the cash forecast, treasury operations, and capital planning
Develop unit economics for enterprise AI deployments, including contract-level margins, compute and inference costs, and software vs. services mix
Prepare board materials, investor updates, and KPI reporting, and lead financial diligence for future fundraises
Partner with GTM and leadership on pricing, deal structures, and contract economics for complex enterprise and government deals

Oversee outsourced accounting, tax, and compliance providers, and mature the monthly close
Stand up financial systems and tooling (planning, billing, expense management) and lay the foundation for a future finance team
You have 6+ years in finance with deep FP&A or strategic finance experience.
You've built operating models that founders, executives, and boards actually use to make decisions.
You've operated inside a high-growth startup, ideally as an early or first finance hire.
Investment banking, private equity, or consulting foundations are a plus - but you've proven you can operate without infrastructure.
You're fluent in SaaS and enterprise metrics - ARR, NDR, gross margin, burn multiple - and you can adapt them to an AI-native business with a nontraditional revenue mix.

Competitive compensation including salary, equity, and performance incentives.
Build and run the FP&A cadence, including annual planning, quarterly reforecasts, and monthly variance reviews with team leads

Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems → 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work

Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
Build and run the FP&A cadence, including annual planning, quarterly reforecasts, and monthly variance reviews with team leads
About Brain Co.
Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy.
We are building AI applications for the world's most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.
This is a foundational leadership role at Brain Co. As our Founding Director of Strategic Finance, you'll be the company's first dedicated finance hire, owning FP&A end to end and building the finance function from the ground up.
As our Founding Director of Strategic Finance, you'll be the company's first dedicated finance hire, owning FP&A end to end and building the finance function from the ground up.

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