Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

GC AI is the fastest-growing and most trusted legal AI platform for in‑house legal teams. We’re building the future of legal work, and we’re doing it fast. You’ll join at a pivotal moment—when decisions matter, impact is immediate, and the runway to shape your career is wide open. We’re a high‑performing team where you’ll have real ownership and influence from day one.

More than 1,500 companies use GC AI to drive their business forward, including 150+ public companies, 25+ unicorns, and brands such as News Corp, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Snyk, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, Zscaler, and TIME.

We’ve 10x’d revenue in 12 months and raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation), and are growing faster than ever. We are backed by incredible investors, including Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

If you thrive when the stakes are high and the path isn’t paved, you’ll love it here. Our six guiding principles are: 1% better every day, customer obsession, ship today, find a way, care deeply, and own it completely. Come shape the future of legal work with us.

We are hiring for this role to be based in the United States or Canada. This is a remote role unless you fall within the following parameters. If you live within approximately 50 miles of our San Mateo, CA or Provo, UT office, the position follows a hybrid schedule with in‑office days on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

We are hiring our first Controller to build and scale the accounting function at GC AI, own the close and the audit, and architect the systems and controls that scale with the business. This is not a maintenance job. The person we hire will design how accounting works at a modern AI company — what is automated, what is reviewed, what is governed — and will build the team that runs it.

You will partner closely with the Senior Director of Finance, our fractional CFO, and the CEO. You will own the relationships with our independent auditors, our technical accounting advisors, and our outsourced bookkeeper through the in‑house transition. You will inherit a complex first‑year audit already in flight, an ERP selection and implementation, and a billing/rev rec transformation tied to usage‑based pricing.

Most Controller roles ask you to keep the books and survive the audit. This one asks you to build the function, conduct a first‑year audit, design systems that scale with the business, and do it as an AI‑first operator—not someone who tolerates AI. You will have direct access to the CEO and the executive team, real ownership over systems and headcount decisions, and the chance to be the founding accounting leader at a company that is on a path to be one of the defining AI companies in legal.

• Architect the accounting org from the current outsourced model to a fully in‑house, AI‑leveraged team. Define the operating model, hiring plan (Senior Accountant, AR/AP, Staff Accountant), and role/responsibility split between Accounting and FP&A.

• Own the implementation and ongoing administration of an ERP. Lead the cutover from our current bookkeeping stack, including the chart of accounts redesign, opening balances, integrations, and parallel‑run validation.

• Design the close to be AI‑augmented end‑to‑end: reconciliations, flux analysis, accrual roll‑forwards, journal entry preparation, and first‑draft variance commentary generated by systems, with humans as reviewers and approvers.

• Stand up the systems architecture and build the data layer that lets Finance, Accounting, and Rev Ops work from a single source of truth.

• Use modern AI tooling (Claude, MCP connectors, agentic workflows) to compress the close cycle, automate prep work, and free the team for judgment and analysis. Set the bar for what “AI‑first accounting” looks like in practice — and ship it.

• Establish controls, segregation of duties, and audit trails appropriate for a company on an IPO path without slowing the business. We want strong governance, not bureaucracy.

• Take full ownership of our first‑year financial statement audit. Land it.

• Own the technical accounting work; revenue recognition, ASC 606 memos,…