Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

Granica•San Francisco Bay Area, CA

13d

About The Position

Granica is an AI research and systems company building the infrastructure for a new kind of intelligence: one that is structured, efficient, and deeply integrated with data. Our systems operate at exabyte scale , processing petabytes of data each day for some of the world’s most prominent enterprises in finance, technology, and industry. These systems are already making a measurable difference in how global organizations use data to deploy AI safely and efficiently. We believe that the next generation of enterprise AI will not come from larger models but from more efficient data systems . By advancing the frontier of how data is represented, stored, and transformed, we aim to make large-scale intelligence creation sustainable and adaptive. Our long-term vision is Efficient Intelligence : AI that learns using fewer resources, generalizes from less data, and reasons through structure rather than scale. To reach that, we are first building the Foundational Data Systems that make structured AI possible. Introduction As we scale toward a generational structured AI company, we’re hiring our Founding Head of Finance to lead Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A, and Company-Wide Performance Architecture. This role is for a finance leader who wants to help build a generational company—designing the financial engine, raising capital, and creating a performance model tied directly to long-term value creation.

Requirements

Experience raising $50M–$100M+ for a high-growth startup.
Scaled a company from Series B/C → Series D → IPO readiness.
Deep expertise in performance-based compensation systems across technical and GTM teams.
Hands-on ownership of FP&A, pricing, forecasting, and model optimization.
Strong understanding of SaaS/AI infrastructure economics (usage-based preferred).
Ability to operate at founder altitude with clarity, speed, and disciplined execution.

Responsibilities

Capital Strategy & Fundraising Partner with the CEO to raise $50M–$100M+ growth rounds.
Build relationships with top-tier venture, growth, and public-market investors.
Own financial narrative, long-term projections, and investor communications.
Strategic Finance, FP&A & Systems Build forecasting, scenario modeling, pricing, and long-range planning systems.
Establish the operating discipline required to scale through Series B, C, D → IPO.
Drive analysis across unit economics, GTM efficiency, R&D leverage, and infra cost modeling.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales to align economics with roadmap and GTM scale.
Performance & Compensation Architecture Design and operationalize a company-wide performance-based compensation system (NPUs).
Build KPI-driven models for engineering, research, GTM, and operations.
Own governance, payout logic, and transparency across total rewards.
Operational & Strategic Leadership Lead planning cycles, resource allocation, and financial readiness.
Build global reporting and financial systems that scale with enterprise demand.
Partner with the CEO on board materials, product strategy, pricing, and market expansion.
Risk, Controls & IPO Readiness Build audit, compliance, and governance frameworks for late-stage scale.
Drive S-1 readiness, revenue recognition compliance, and investor-grade reporting.
Team Building Hire and scale FP&A, accounting/controllership, revenue operations, and analytics.
Transition from outsourced support to a high-velocity internal team.