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VP, Finance

Exa· Operations
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San Francisco, California$250k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Exa is hiring its first dedicated finance leader to drive financial strategy, operational rigor, and business insight. The role requires partnering with GTM and product leadership, building the finance function from 0 to 1, and supporting hyper-growth as the company scales revenue post-Series C.

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

Qualifications

  • 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
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Exa is a search engine built for AIs. We enable developers to filter the internet's content with complex queries in order to bring the world's knowledge into their AI apps.

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