Noteworthy AI - Vice President of Finance

Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations ("CI") is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 220+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech.

Come join Noteworthy AI - Routine fleet operations. Extraordinary grid insights!

At Noteworthy AI, we are helping to modernize critical energy infrastructure for a safer, more resilient grid. Electric utilities face unprecedented challenges, from extreme weather events to increased load growth, making real-time grid intelligence more essential than ever. Our vehicle-mounted edge devices, advanced computer vision, and AI platform autonomously inspect, geolocate, and analyze grid assets during routine fleet operations, turning every drive into actionable intelligence.

Backed by top-tier climate tech investors, validated by industry leaders like Florida Power & Light, First Energy, and Alabama Power, and partnered with technology pioneers like NVIDIA, we are rapidly scaling our technology. We’re building a high-trust, low-ego team of problem solvers who want to see their work directly power safer communities and a more sustainable energy future.

We are hiring a strategic, hands-on Vice President of Finance to build and own our full-time financial function. Reporting to the CEO, this role leads FP&A, financial reporting, treasury, investor relations, and capital allocation. The ideal candidate has scaled financial infrastructure from Series A through rapid growth in an agile startup, not solely within established corporations, and understands the extended procurement life cycles and capital expenditure frameworks unique to selling into electric utilities, since accurate budgeting depends on it.

• Financial Strategy & Capital Allocation: Serve as the strategic financial thought partner to the CEO and Board, optimizing capital deployment, runway, and revenue forecasting following our Series A round.
• Utility Procurement & Cash Flow Modeling: Build and manage sophisticated financial and cash flow models that specifically account for the extended timing, pilot-to-contract rollouts, and multi-stage procurement cycles of electric utility clients.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & FP&A: Lead the annual budgeting process and quarterly rolling forecasts, collaborating cross-functionally across product, commercial, and engineering teams to align financial targets with strategic operational milestones.
• Investor Relations & Board Reporting: Manage board reporting packages, investor updates, cap table management, and financial communications, providing clear visibility into operational performance, burn rate, and financial KPIs.
• Financial Operations & Control Systems: Design, implement, and optimize scalable financial operations, accounting controls, customer invoicing and AR processes, revenue recognition policies in compliance with GAAP, audit preparations, and tax compliance built for scale.
• Commercial & Contract Support: Partner with commercial and growth teams on enterprise utility contract structuring, pricing strategy, vendor negotiations, and multi-year deal terms.
• Team Leadership & Scale: Build and direct the internal and external finance function, managing accounting, tax, and audit vendor partners as the company scales.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field. Preferred/strong plus:
  Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance or strategic management.
• Experience: 8-12+ years of progressive financial leadership experience, with a background leading FP&A or finance…