Head of Finance

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Own our quarterly and annual planning cycle end-to-end, guiding overall company strategy and resource allocation. - Financial Discipline & Budgeting: Ensure financial discipline and set budgets across the organization.
Establish and uphold rigorous financial principles, ensuring teams make decisions grounded in strong unit economics. - Performance Monitoring: Monitor KPIs and performance across teams and the overall company.
Build dashboards and identify the right levers to accelerate growth and efficiency.

ABOUT THE COMPANY Braintrust is the AI observability platform.
By connecting evals and observability in one workflow, Braintrust gives builders the visibility to understand how AI behaves in production and the tools to improve it.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Zapier, Vercel, and Ramp use Braintrust to compare models, test prompts, and catch regressions — turning production data into better AI with every release.
You’ll partner closely with GTM, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations to ensure decisions are grounded in sound economic principles and long-term value creation, while feeding insights back into how we improve our business model.
experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Investment Banking, ideally within a high-growth B2B SaaS or AI technology company. - Leadership: Proven track record of building or leading a finance function, with the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in an early-stage or scaling environment. - Analytical Rigor: Deep expertise in financial modeling, long-range planning, and capital allocation.
Familiarity with ARR-based business metrics and subscription economics. - Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex financial topics into clear, compelling narratives for executives, the Board, and investors. - Execution: High ownership mentality.