Head of Finance
About the role
Not a traditional SaaS finance role; leads forecasting, planning, reporting, treasury, and financing strategy while partnering with founders on capital allocation, infrastructure investment, pricing, and long-term unit economics.
Responsibilities
- Own financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and board reporting.
- Build models to support company planning and strategic decision-making.
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to forecast infrastructure investment and capacity requirements.
- Own cash forecasting, treasury management, capital planning, and financing strategy.
- Analyze pricing, margins, and business performance.
- Support fundraising, investor relations, and strategic projects.
- Build the systems and processes that will scale with the company.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a high-growth technology company.
- An exceptional financial modeler.
- Enjoy solving ambiguous, first-principles problems.
- Can communicate effectively with both engineers and executives.
- Have strong business judgment and a bias toward action.
- Want to work closely with founders and help shape company strategy.
- Understand how high-growth companies finance expansion and think strategically about capital structure.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
- Competitive base + equity.
- 401K match.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Annual offsite.
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
About Blacksmith
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
Blacksmith helps companies run their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as fast, at half the cost. We do this by running their CI on high performance gaming CPUs. - Engineering productivity is often marred by slow CI that grows quadratically with the size of the engineering organization. - On top of this, companies pay high markups to run CI on the hyperscalers. - Consequently, companies have to run their CI on spot instances to keep costs in check. Since spot instances can get pre-empted at any point, running CI reliably on them requires [significant engineering investment](https://www.rippling.com/blog/how-rippling-used-spot-instances-to-save-and-scale-ci-cd). Blacksmith offers CI compute that is more performant, cheaper, and reliable. With Blacksmith, companies do not have to think about CI as they scale. We are starting with GitHub Actions - today's most popular and fastest-growing CI system. With a one-line change, companies can run their CI up to twice as fast on our high-performance hardware. In addition to this, Blacksmith provides colocated warm caches along with optimizations for common CI workloads (like building and pushing Docker images). Aayush, JP and Aditya have gained deep systems and product knowledge from their time at Cockroach Labs and Faire respectively. Both these companies, with several hundred engineers, were spending in the order of millions of dollars on their CI. Yet they were riddled with slow CI and actively seeking out cheaper and faster alternatives. Blacksmith offers exactly this alternative, at a time where being lean is table-stakes for most companies.
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