Financial Operations

Chai Discovery
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingSkills: ["Detail-oriented","Low-ego","High agency","Hands-on problem solving"]

Own Chai’s financial operating system end to end for an early-stage company with complex books, including compute acquisition, partner data spend, and pharma contracts with revenue recognition and compliance needs. Drive the close process, build a trusted view of cash and spend, take over the financial model and cash forecasting, and implement the reporting cadence leadership needs—enabling founders to focus on research and product impact.

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Chai Discovery
Chai Discovery
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Financial Operations

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Job Summary

Own Chai’s financial operating system end to end for an early-stage company with complex books, including compute acquisition, partner data spend, and pharma contracts with revenue recognition and compliance needs. Drive the close process, build a trusted view of cash and spend, take over the financial model and cash forecasting, and implement the reporting cadence leadership needs—enabling founders to focus on research and product impact.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the financial close process.
  • •Build and maintain a trusted view of where the money is going.
  • •Take over the financial model and cash forecast.
  • •Implement and maintain the operating machinery that supports the finance function.
  • •Create a reporting cadence that gives leadership the information they need.

Key Requirements

  • •Be a financial generalist capable of owning the full financial operating system end to end.
  • •Have hands-on experience fixing workflows and processes rather than tolerating issues.
  • •Experience working in early-stage and growth-stage startups from the inside.
  • •Be detail-oriented with low ego and high agency, with a mindset that no task is too big or small.
  • •Be tech savvy and AI fluent to support modern finance workflows.
Experience:Early-stage startupsGrowth-stage startups
Skills:Detail-orientedLow-egoHigh agencyHands-on problem solving

Company Brief

Chai Discovery
Builds foundation AI models to predict and design interactions between biochemical molecules, enabling de novo antibody and drug design to accelerate pharmaceutical discovery and development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2024
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