VP, Finance

Exa • San Francisco, CA

2d • $250,000 - $350,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Exa is seeking its first dedicated finance leader, the VP Finance, to join the executive leadership team. This role will be responsible for driving financial strategy, operational rigor, and business insight across the organization. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong leadership capabilities, exceptional financial acumen, and a proven track record in building financial infrastructures to support hyper growth. This role requires a business partner who can translate complex financial data into clear strategic insights, collaborate closely with Go-To-Market and product leadership, and communicate effectively with founders, the board, and investors. As Exa has just closed its Series C and is rapidly scaling revenue, this leader will build the finance function from the ground up, bringing rigor to compute-driven unit economics and top-line growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• 8 - 15 years of finance experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth technology company
• Strategic finance background: IB, PE, venture capital, or growth-stage operator experience
• Track record building a finance function at a scaling startup - you’ve seen what great looks like and how to build it
• Deep fluency in financial modeling and FP&A for API/consumption-based business models
• Hands-on experience managing compute costs in an infrastructure, AI, or usage-based business
• Strong commercial instincts - ability to partner closely with GTM leadership on revenue strategy, pricing, and unit economics
• Experience leading institutional fundraising
• Exceptional communicator - concise, direct, and able to distill complex financial data into clear executive and board-level insights
• Operator mentality: moves fast, builds from scratch, and thrives in ambiguity
• Low ego, high accountability - a collaborator who earns trust through execution

Responsibilities

• Build the Finance Function: Establish internal controls, systems, and processes to support scale and audit readiness. Bring core accounting and finance operations in-house. Hire and develop a high-caliber finance team from the ground up.
• Financial Planning & Analysis / Financial Operations: Build and own financial models and forecasting suited to a consumption-based API business. Own company-wide budgeting and scenario planning. Establish and refine FP&A processes that give leadership real financial visibility and support fast, data-driven decisions. Ensure the integrity of financial reporting and compliance with applicable regulations.
• Strategic Finance: Serve as a key strategic partner to the leadership team on all financial decisions - from pricing and unit economics to capital allocation. Partner with GTM on pricing, packaging, and strategic deal-making. Partner with Engineering on infrastructure and product decisions that carry unit-economic implications. Own capital allocation strategy and treasury.
• Fundraising & Investor Relations: Own investor reporting and board communications. Prepare Exa for future financing events - Series D and beyond.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive