Chief Financial Officer (CFO)Location: Remote - United States
Department: Executive Leadership
Classification: Exempt, Full-Time
As the company expands its AI infrastructure portfolio, strategic partnerships, and market opportunities, the CFO will help scale the organization while protecting and enhancing long-term enterprise value. This role extends beyond traditional accounting and reporting responsibilities and focuses on capital strategy, risk management, governance, and executive decision-making. The CFO will partner closely with executive leadership to support growth while maintaining financial discipline, investor confidence, and organizational readiness for future investment, acquisition, or liquidity opportunities.
Responsibilities- Develop and execute the financial strategy supporting company growth, product development, and market expansion.
- Partner with executive leadership on capital allocation, funding requirements, and investment priorities.
- Provide visibility into cash flow, runway, burn rate, and financial scenarios to support strategic decision-making.
- Evaluate growth opportunities through the lens of enterprise value, risk, and long-term sustainability.
- Lead financial preparation for fundraising activities, strategic investments, debt facilities, and other capital initiatives.
- Develop investor-ready financial reporting, narratives, and supporting materials.
- Support due diligence efforts with investors, lenders, strategic partners, and other stakeholders.
- Translate technical and operational initiatives into clear financial outcomes and business value.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and executive leadership team on growth, investment, partnership, and expansion decisions.
- Establish frameworks to evaluate financial, operational, contractual, and market risks.
- Challenge assumptions, identify emerging risks, and support risk-adjusted decision-making.
- Partner with external tax, audit, legal, and financial advisors to maintain compliance and support organizational growth.
- Lead and develop the finance and accounting function, including systems, processes, and accountability structures.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cash management, financial reporting, tax strategy, audits, and compliance activities.
- Build reporting, controls, governance, and financial infrastructure to support a scaling organization.
- Maintain readiness for future investment, acquisition, liquidity, or strategic transaction opportunities.
- Establish metrics and operating rhythms that provide visibility into organizational performance and enterprise value.
RequirementsYou are a strategic CFO who has helped growth-oriented organizations scale, raise capital, and create enterprise value. You understand how to balance opportunity, risk, runway, and execution while providing the financial discipline necessary to support long-term growth. You know when to accelerate, when to challenge assumptions, and when to say "not yet" - and you can serve as both a trusted business partner and an independent voice in the room.
More specifically, you:
- Experience supporting founder-led, venture-backed, private equity-backed, or high-growth technology organizations.
- Strong understanding of how investors, lenders, boards, and strategic partners evaluate businesses.
- Ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable business decisions.
- Demonstrated judgment regarding capital allocation, growth investments, and risk management.
- Experience leading finance and accounting teams, audits, compliance initiatives, and external advisor relationships.
- Ability to build financial rigor and accountability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments where priorities evolve quickly and information may be incomplete.
- Formal education in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience gained through progressive financial leadership roles.
Preferred Qualifications / Accelerators- Experience supporting AI, software, cloud infrastructure, HPC, data center, or other emerging technology organizations.
- Experience with fundraising, strategic investments, debt facilities, acquisitions, or liquidity events.
- Experience preparing organizations for institutional investment, acquisition, or exit.
- Familiarity with recurring revenue, technology services, infrastructure, or product-based business models.
- Experience working with venture capital, private equity, family offices, strategic investors, or institutional lenders.
- Experience helping organizations transition from founder-led growth to institutional scale.
- Familiarity with government contracting, public sector opportunities, or highly regulated industries.
Benefits- Competitive compensation.
- Meaningful equity opportunity.
- Direct access to the CEO and executive leadership team.
- Opportunity to shape the financial future of a high-growth AI company.
- Leadership role in building the company's capital strategy, investor relationships, financial systems, controls, and governance infrastructure.
- Opportunity to support active AI infrastructure deployments, enterprise partnerships, and institutional growth initiatives.
