Exa

4 weeks ago

VP, Finance

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Job Summary

Lead Exa's first dedicated Finance leader, shaping financial strategy for a fast-growing AI-powered search API company. Build FP&A, budgeting, internal controls, and a scaling finance team; partner with GTM, product, and Engineering; manage capital allocation, treasury, and investor relations; drive unit economics and data-driven decisions as revenue scales post-Series C.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Key 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
•Location: Targeting San Francisco Bay Area as preferred location

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 350,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
•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
•Deep fluency in financial modeling and FP&A for API/consumption-based business models

Experience:8-15 yearsTechnologyAISaaS

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingPartnershipBusiness acumen

Languages:English

Company Brief

Exa

Builds an embeddings-based neural search engine and web search API for AI applications, offering crawling, retrieval, and deep research tools to serve developers and AI agents with up-to-date web knowledge.

Industry: API Platforms

Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: USD 500M to 1B

Funding: Series B

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2021

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