Finance and Operations Lead

Tacit•San Francisco, CA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. As we double our headcount over the next year, the finance and operations infrastructure that's held together so far — spend controls, contracts, cap table, budget tracking — needs a real owner. This role is that owner: the person who makes sure money moves correctly, contracts don't create exposure, our cap table is clean, and leadership can see where we actually stand against plan. It's also the role we'll lean on as new operational questions come up that don't have an obvious home yet — sizing whether we should launch a new function, figuring out how to stand something up we haven't done before, or diligence on a new initiative. You'll report directly to our CEO.

Requirements

4–8 years in finance, ideally with time as a controller or senior FP&A person inside a venture-backed startup.
Experience through a Series A or later round and knowledge of investor-grade financial hygiene.
Comfortable being the entire finance function day to day — this is a hands-on doer role today, not a manager role.
Real experience with tools like Ramp (or a comparable spend platform), Pulley or Carta (cap table), and QuickBooks or similar.
Comfortable reading and negotiating commercial contracts without a lawyer in the room for every one — you know your limits and when to escalate.
Energized by a mix of pure finance tasks and modeling new company initiatives.
Precise and low-drama under real financial and compliance stakes.
Comfortable in a hardware-plus-software environment with real physical-world costs (components, manufacturing, lab equipment).
High ownership, low ego about scope — plenty of unglamorous, detailed work alongside the higher-leverage stuff.

Nice To Haves

Bonus points if you've been through a Series A or later round and know what investor-grade financial hygiene actually looks like.

Responsibilities

Own Ramp end to end — card issuance, spend policy, approval workflows, expense review, and bill pay.
Partner with our outside accountants on the books, but you're the internal owner of financial accuracy — reconciliations, close support, and making sure what's in the system reflects reality.
Own Pulley — every option grant, exercise, termination, and financing event gets reflected correctly and promptly. Board and investor requests for cap table data go through you.
Own the monthly forecast and finance plan, run variance analysis against actuals, and stand up real department-level budgets and the reporting that tracks spend against them.
Own vendor contract review and negotiation across the business, and act as the first point of contact into outside counsel on commercial/contract matters.
Own the broker relationship and renewal cycle for our D&O, EPLI, general liability, and other coverage, bringing anything needing board approval to the right people.
Own the underlying financial model and numbers that go into the board deck, and be in the room to answer the hard questions about it.
Serve as the quantitative backbone for ambiguous projects that don't have a natural owner yet — modeling out a new team's staffing plan, sizing whether we should launch a new function, or conducting diligence on a new vendor or initiative.