Strategic Finance Lead

AngelList•San Francisco, NY

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

AngelList is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the economics of Nova's product menu. Nova is AngelList's banking and payments network for private markets, facilitating the movement of money between funds and investors. The role involves significant autonomy, similar to a division CFO, influencing product development, pricing, and market launch. Success in this role is measured by the business making better decisions, shipping the right products, and accelerating revenue. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of private markets financial infrastructure.

Requirements

8+ years across strategic finance, banking, private markets, or corporate strategy, owning growth planning personally.
Experience in fintech or neobank strategic finance, private-markets infrastructure, or banking and financial services turned operational.
Native reasoning in financial-product economics: deposits and float, lending spreads, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees.
Ability to identify profitable products and distinguish them from costly ones.
Ability to 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.
Experience making tough calls and killing bets when economics don't hold.
Ability to operate with broad scope and no playbook, making senior judgment calls before data is clean, shaping own mandate, and having a bias to action.
Ability to decide in days and correct course rather than spending weeks on a cleaner answer.
Skill in distilling complex problems to key decision-driving points and communicating them to executives in writing, in person, and in charts.
Experience building AI into work processes and shaping its future application in finance.
Strong leadership and conviction in product development decisions.
Ability to create and maintain a trusted financial model for leadership, including product economics, targets, and tradeoffs.
Ability to communicate a clear, consistent narrative on financial performance and growth levers.
Proven track record of driving revenue growth through new and existing products across various channels (direct, Ark/fund-admin, LP).

Nice To Haves

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

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.