VP Strategic Finance & BizOps

This role represents a rare, high-impact opportunity for a senior finance and operations leader to build a function from the ground up at a well-funded, growth-stage technology company (over $450M raised). Reporting directly to the CFO with Board-level visibility, it offers extraordinary career leverage.

Compensation benchmark: The $260K–$300K base is at or above market for a VP/Head of Strategic Finance at a Series C/D-stage tech company. Comparable roles at similar-stage companies typically range $220K–$280K base, making this competitive. Add stock options and the upside is meaningful if Updater achieves its $1B+ revenue ambitions.

Skills you'll build or deepen:

• End-to-end FP&A and strategic finance leadership at scale
• Cross-functional influence without direct authority (GTM, Product, Data)
• AI and automation integration into finance operations — a rapidly in-demand skill set
• Board-level communication and executive storytelling
• Organizational design and capital allocation at a growth company

Green flags: "Player-coach" culture, lean team ethos, explicit preference for automation over headcount, and a CFO-reporting structure signal a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. The company's $450M+ funding and blue-chip investor roster (Soft Bank, Vista) add credibility.

Watch for: The role is intentionally broad — Strategic Finance and Business Operations combined is a heavy mandate. Candidates should probe team size, existing tooling, and near-term hiring plans to assess whether the scope is realistic or a burnout risk.

Updater is building a category-defining commerce platform with the ambition to become one of the world's most important commerce infrastructure companies. We're looking for an exceptional leader to build the company's Strategic Finance and Business Operations function and help architect the next stage of growth. Reporting to the CFO, this person will sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, data, and execution, owning the financial and operating architecture required to help scale the company toward $1B+ in revenue and beyond.

You will own the company's forward-looking financial engine, performance-management system, and a portfolio of its highest-priority cross-functional initiatives. You'll help determine where we invest, what we expect in return, how we measure whether it's working, and what we do when reality differs from the plan. You'll inherit a small, high-caliber team and be expected to build a world-class function without unnecessary bureaucracy, combining sophisticated thinking with a highly hands-on, capital-efficient approach.

The mandate is simple: help the company make better decisions, allocate resources more intelligently, and turn strategy into measurable results.

• Own the company's financial planning architecture, including annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis.
• Build and maintain a driver-based financial model that connects operating activities, unit economics, strategic priorities, and resource allocation to long-term financial outcomes and enterprise value.
• Partner with the CFO and executive team on capital allocation, helping determine where the next dollar, hire, or hour of organizational capacity should go.
• Develop rigorous business cases for major investments, new products, partnerships, pricing changes, commercial structures, and strategic initiatives.
• Translate financial and operating performance into concise executive and Board-level narratives: what happened, why it happened, what matters, and what we should do about it.

• Architect and own the company's KPI and OKR…