Head of Finance
Job location: San Francisco, USA / USA Remote
Job description:
At Acryl Data, we bring clarity to data by enabling delightful search and discovery, data observability, and federated governance across your entire data ecosystem.
Acryl Data is well funded by top tier VCs (8VC, LinkedIn, Insight), and is dedicated to building and serving a thriving open source community. You will be a key leadership team member of a collaborative and tight-knit team, committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment. Acryl Data is driving the open source DataHub project in collaboration with LinkedIn and the broader open source community.
In this role, you will establish and lead all financial operations as the company's first finance hire. This role requires working closely with the executive team to develop financial strategies, manage investor relations, and build scalable financial processes to support our growth in the B2B data space. You will transition financial operations from our current outsourced accounting firm to an in-house function while maintaining strategic partnerships with external advisors.
Requirements:
- Minimum 7+ years of finance and accounting experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- Minimum of 3 years experience at B2B SaaS startups, ideally including Series A through C
- Experience managing financial operations in the enterprise software, data, or B2B SaaS sectors
- Experience as the first finance hire at an early stage startup
- Strong understanding of subscription-based revenue models and SaaS metrics (ARR, CAC, LTV, etc.)
- Expertise in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning
- Experience with fundraising processes and investor relations at the Series B stage
- Proficiency with setting up financial systems and tools (NetSuite, Bill.com, etc.)
- Experience transitioning from outsourced accounting to in-house financial operations
- Excellent communication skills to translate financial insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders
How we work
Remote first. We're a fully-distributed company, and our interaction culture is deliberately mixed between meeting culture and written. We're writing heavy because it forces clarity of thought; we have plenty of synchronous time to give space for collaborative ideation.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (99% coverage for employee, 65% coverage for dependents)
- Carrot Fertility Program
- Remote friendly
- Work from home and monthly co-working space budget
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded by the leaders that built data teams at LinkedIn and Airbnb, Acryl Data enables you to take back control of your fragmented data stack. We do this by driving the #1 open source Metadata Platform DataHub, which has a community of 8,000+ data practitioners and is deployed in 1,000+ companies.
Acryl DataHub is a third-generation streaming metadata platform that integrates with 50+ tools (dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Looker, etc) in the data stack to enable data discovery, data lineage, data governance, and data observability.
✅ Connect to your data sources within minutes, and gain end-to-end visibility.
✅ Power mission-critical workflows with a SOC-2-compliant platform.
✅ Bring data and business teams together with a single source of truth to create governed data products.
Powering data teams at Notion, Zendesk, Riskified, and many more!
