Exa
VP, Finance
San Francisco, California · Vp
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Financial ModelingFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingBudgetingFP&AResearchLeadershipCommunicationFinancial ReportingInternal Audit
About the role
- Reporting directly to co-founder Jeff Wang, the VP Finance will be Exa's first dedicated finance leader and a key member of the executive leadership team, driving financial strategy, operational rigor, and business insight across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Build the Finance Function
- Establish internal controls, systems, and processes to support scale and audit readiness
- Hire and develop a high-caliber finance team from the ground up
- Build and own financial models and forecasting suited to a consumption-based API business
- Own company-wide budgeting and scenario planning
- Establish and refine FP&A processes that give leadership real financial visibility and support fast, data-driven decisions
- Serve as a key strategic partner to the leadership team on all financial decisions - from pricing and unit economics to capital allocation
- Partner with GTM on pricing, packaging, and strategic deal-making
- Partner with Engineering on infrastructure and product decisions that carry unit-economic implications
- Own capital allocation strategy and treasury
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
- 15 years of finance experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth technology company
- Hands-on experience managing compute costs in an infrastructure, AI, or usage-based business
- Experience leading institutional fundraising
Nice to have
- Low ego, high accountability - a collaborator who earns trust through execution
Company info
- Exa is building a search engine for the AI era.
- Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s.
- We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders & dropouts alike.
- We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.
- We're high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right.
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