Scale AI Hiring for Head of Finance, Operations at San Francisco, California, United States Full Time

Scale is looking for an experienced Finance leader to build and lead our Operations Finance team. This role will be instrumental in setting strategy, financial plans, and operating rigor as we accelerate the adoption of AI.

We are looking for a leader who will be both strategic and tactical in owning and building the finance team and processes.

You will be responsible for owning the operating model, helping to drive quarterly and annual planning, managing unit economics, and partnering across the team to make financially sound, data-driven decisions.

This is a highly cross-functional role, as you will collaborate across internal teams including product, engineering, legal, marketing, and operations.

In this role, you will have a front-row seat to help build our business. We hope you’ll join us!

You will :

• Serve as the Finance business partner to Operations, leading strategic and financial planning discussions
• Manage the Operations operating budget to evaluate investment strategies and provide real-time tracking to the Head of Ops
• Engage with the business to manage headcount and expense forecasts, own weekly and monthly financial reporting, KPIs, presentations, and other critical analysis requests for the leadership team
• Lead, grow, and develop a team of high-performing finance professionals responsible for planning, business partnership, and ad-hoc strategic analysis, such as growth investments, pricing and costing, or investment evaluations
• Partner with other finance and accounting areas to support month-end close, flux review processes, and deliver high-quality financial reporting, close packages, and disclosures
• Own, refine and implement the operating cadence and associated financial systems and tools to track Operations KPIs, and performance
• Drive the roadmap for initiatives including internal billings system, strategic initiatives to enhance growth and de-risk our top-line plan, as well as provide greater insights into the return on marketplace investments
• Act as a strategic thought partner to our Operations leadership team and CFO for long-term decisions around the growth of our marketplace

Ideally, you’d have :

• Minimum of 10 years of financial experience working directly in Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategic Finance, and / or investment banking
• Deep understanding of B2B SaaS businesses, and / or scaling a technology businesses
• Experience improving and streamlining processes, and developing solutions to operational inefficiencies
• Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement
• Strong knowledge of Google Suite, MS Office; expert Excel modeling skills and Salesforce
• Strong executive presence and interpersonal skills; ability to lead discussions with the Executive Team
• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow a high functioning Finance team and deliver quality results as a team leader
• Demonstrated ability to build outstanding and effective relationships with cross-functional teams
• Experience with financial systems (e.g. Anaplan, Adaptive Insights)

Nice to haves :

• A Bachelor’s degree with a major in Finance and / or Accounting
• IPO experience a plus
• Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus

The base salary range for this full-time position in our hub locations of San Francisco, New York, or Seattle is $220,000 – $264,000.

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Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Scale employees are also granted Stock Options that are awarded upon board of director approval.

You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to : Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.

Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

About Us :

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time.

Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI.

Our products power the world’s most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.

S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an affirmative action employer and inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

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