Strategic Finance

Hi there! We are fal, and we are on a mission to build world’s first generative media platform for developers.

We built a serverless runtime for Python that is optimized to run large ML models on 1000s of GPUs efficiently. The applications built on our platform are currently serving millions of users around the world and our goal is to 1000x that over the next few years.

fal is an in‑person company based in San Francisco. Today, we are 80 people strong, and we are looking for team members who share our excitement about the fast moving nature of AI and can independently build world‑class infrastructure.

We’re looking for a strategic finance partner to join our growing finance team. You will help across all functions - consolidations, KPI reporting and tracking, systems implementation, and ad hoc strategic projects. This is not a typical B2B SaaS business, and fal is not a typical environment: we’re a deliberately flat organization with very few titles or layers, moving extremely fast with data and processes still being built.

The ideal person is interdisciplinary, resourceful, low-ego, and energized by ambiguity and a high‑urgency pace.

Planning: Support company‑wide financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes

Models: Help maintain and extend our bottoms‑up revenue model across GTM motions and products, track and report actuals vs variances, and surface insights

Systems: Assist with FP&A software implementation and additional finance systems (ERP, procurement)

Reporting: Partner with accounting and data on monthly revenue reporting, ensuring product‑ and customer‑level breakdowns are accurate and usable

Visibility: Build dashboards giving leadership real‑time visibility into key performance metrics vs plan and forecast

Make the data usable: Go into the data (e.g. Big Query), spot what’s wrong, and drive it to a fix with the right people; we’re a lean team without a dedicated analyst, so this is core to the job

Automate: Use AI tools to automate recurring financial workflows

5+ years of experience across strategic finance, private/growth equity or investment banking with 3+ years of finance operating experience at a high‑growth technology company

Able to read and troubleshoot data and validate metrics independently. You don’t need to hand‑write SQL, but you must read a table, find what’s wrong, and problem‑solve it

Working knowledge of accounting concepts (billings, deferred revenue, AR, rev rec) and able to translate them for non‑finance stakeholders

Strong financial‑modeling skill; can distill complex data into clear, actionable insights

Strong cross‑functional communication and influencing skills

Resourceful, low‑ego, high‑urgency, and genuinely excited to operate in a fast‑changing AI startup with evolving processes

Experience in AI, cloud, or large‑scale computing infrastructure

Experience implementing a modern FP&A tool

Track record of building/using AI tools to automate financial workflows

fal is intentionally flat: there are very few titles, and almost everyone reports to a senior leader rather than a layer of managers. People here are excited about the AI space, take real ownership, move fast, and aren’t focused on titles or hierarchy. If a messy, high‑autonomy, build‑as‑you‑go environment sounds energizing rather than stressful, you’ll thrive.

Work with senior leaders on strategic and high‑priority problems at one of the fastest‑growing companies in AI. High autonomy, real ownership as you earn it, and competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.

Compensation Range: $180K - $200K

• Interesting and challenging work
• Competitive salary and equity
• We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco. We prefer to work in‑person but we also offer remote work opportunities for exceptional candidates.
• We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)