HumanSignal

Director of Finance

San Francisco Bay Area · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 55 days ago

Machine LearningFinancial ModelingAccountingForecastingFP&ACustomer SuccessCadenceLeadershipVariance Analysis

About the role

This is a hands-on leadership role with broad scope.
Run deal desk operations in partnership with Sales and Customer Success to ensure coherent deal structure and pricing
Track and report on services revenue, backlog, and pipeline as a distinct business line alongside software ARR

HumanSignal is a human data partner for companies building AI models and products.
Advanced ML and AI teams use our enterprise platform to run their own data factories, and our services team to extend their reach where in-house capacity runs out.
We're hiring a Director of Finance to own the financial backbone of HumanSignal, the company behind Label Studio.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll own financial planning, business analytics, and the metrics infrastructure that drives decision-making across the company, including our SaaS & labeling services business.
You'll partner with the executive team on strategy and planning, work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and sales, and build the financial infrastructure we need for the next stage of growth.
Own the full P&L and free cash flow forecast; build and maintain our long-range financial model
Deliver weekly KPI reporting to the executive team and board/investor reporting packages
Build and manage sales commission and incentive plans

Experience with services or professional services financial modeling (utilization, project margins, blended rates) is a strong plus
Experience preparing board materials, investor updates, and executive-level reporting
Startup mentality, no job is too small, and you default to action over analysis
Attention to detail.
In your application, tell us about a financial model you built that turned out to be wrong, and what it taught you.
We read every application and want to make sure you do the same.
Produce an initial labeling services P&L with project-level margin visibility
Audit external accounting and payroll vendors

Lead the annual and quarterly planning cycle, including budgets, variance analysis, and ad-hoc modeling

Our customers ship better AI, faster, because we partner with their researchers from real-world data creation to annotation to delivery.
We design and create datasets from scratch, recruit and manage the domain experts who evaluate model output, and run everything through our own platform, Label Studio, the open-source standard for data labeling and evaluation, used by over 1 million practitioners worldwide.

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