Strategic Finance Lead

AngelList

$170K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in strategic finance, banking, or corporate strategy, particularly in fintech or neobank settings.
  • Deep understanding of financial-product economics including deposits, lending spreads, and asset management fees.
  • Strong conviction in navigating product development based on analytics and market insights.
  • Ability to operate independently, making swift, high-level decisions without needing exhaustive data.
  • Effective communicator able to simplify complex issues for executive presentations and strategic discussions.
  • Experience leveraging AI technologies to enhance financial operations and product strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Own and detail Nova's financial performance narrative, including P&L and revenue models.
  • Manage the economic framework of Nova's financial products and guide future development and pricing strategies.
  • Drive revenue through setting targets and enhancing market strategies for product adoption across various channels.
  • Model and evaluate the unit economics that directly link product offerings to revenue outcomes.
  • Develop an overarching strategy that aligns product development with financial performance and company growth goals.

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment with a hybrid office model in NYC and San Francisco.
  • Support for personal and professional life balance.
  • Additional learning opportunities and avenues for professional growth.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Nova is AngelList's banking and payments network for private markets. Funds and investors both live on the network, and money (subscriptions, capital calls, distributions) moves between them inside it instead of through wires and PDFs. On top of those rails sits a growing menu of financial products: treasury and yield, credit, and a wealth layer that keeps an investor's capital working from one fund to the next.

We're looking for someone to own the economics of that product menu with the autonomy and scope of a division CFO. Your fingerprints should be visible on which products we build, how they're priced, and how fast they reach the market.

This is not a traditional finance role. Success is whether the business makes better decisions, ships the right products, and accelerates revenue.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the Nova business narrative on financial performance, product economics, and outlook, including mastery of the Nova P&L and revenue model.
  • Own the economics of the financial-product menu (deposits, treasury, payments, credit, and wealth) and bring the point of view on what to build next, how it is priced, and how it makes money.
  • Drive revenue growth: own target-setting and go-to-market planning for new and existing products, and unlock adoption across every channel from direct GP sales, the Ark / fund-admin cross-sell to the LP surface.
  • Model the unit economics that drive the call (NIM and float, lending spread and risk, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees), and connect each product to payments volume, balances, and revenue.


What we're looking for:

  • 8+ years across strategic finance, banking, private markets, or corporate strategy, owning growth planning personally. The strongest fits come from fintech or neobank strategic finance, private-markets infrastructure, or banking and financial services turned operational.
  • You reason natively in financial-product economics: deposits and float, lending spreads, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees. You can tell a profitable product from a costly one.
  • You form a clear point of view on what to build next, build conviction across product, GTM, and ops, and carry it to launch with pricing, packaging, and targets. You've killed a bet people believed in when the economics don't hold.
  • You operate with broad scope and no playbook. You make senior judgment calls before the data is clean, shape your own mandate, and have a bias to action. You'd rather decide in days and correct course than spend weeks on a cleaner answer.
  • You can distill a complex problem to the handful of points that move the decision, and you communicate it to executives in writing, in person, and in charts.
  • You've built AI into how you work and expect it to reshape how finance operates. You want to be the person defining what that looks like here.


How success will be measured:

  • Leadership has conviction on which financial product we build next, and why.
  • The Nova leadership team plans off one model it trusts, with product economics, targets, and tradeoffs in one place.
  • There's a clear, consistent narrative on financial performance and which growth levers to prioritize.
  • Revenue grows: new and existing products show up in payments volume, balances, and revenue, with GTM unlocked across direct, Ark / fund-admin, and LP channels.


Working Here

If you don't meet every requirement above, we still encourage you to apply. We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

We operate out of hubs in New York City and San Francisco. For most roles on those teams, we work from the office at least two days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday).

Compensation:
The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $170,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Full details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

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