Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

The role

The Founding Head of Finance will lead Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A, and Company-Wide Performance Architecture. This person will design the financial engine, raise capital, and create a performance model tied to long-term value creation.

What you will do

• Partner with the CEO to lead $50M–$100M+ growth rounds across Series B+.
• Own the long-range financial model, capital strategy, and investor narrative.
• Build and manage relationships with top-tier venture, growth, and crossover investors.
• Lead diligence, investor Q&A, and board-level financial communications.
• Build forecasting, scenario modeling, pricing, and long-range planning systems.
• Establish the operating discipline required to scale through Series B, C, D to IPO.
• Drive analysis across unit economics, GTM efficiency, R&D leverage, and infra cost modeling.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales to align economics with roadmap and GTM scale.
• Design and operationalize a company-wide performance-based compensation system.
• Build KPI-driven models for engineering, research, GTM, and operations.

Required qualifications

• Experience raising $50M–$100M+ for a high-growth startup.
• Scaled a company from Series B/C to Series D to IPO readiness.
• Deep expertise in performance-based compensation systems across technical and GTM teams.
• Hands-on ownership of FP&A, pricing, forecasting, and model optimization.
• Strong understanding of SaaS/AI infrastructure economics.
• Ability to operate at founder altitude with clarity, speed, and disciplined execution.

Nice to have

• usage-based

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• meaningful equity
• performance bonus for top performers
• 401(k) with company match
• comprehensive health coverage
• unlimited PTO
• Daily catered meals in our Mountain View office
• Support for research, publication, and conference participation

About the company

Granica is building the next generation of enterprise AI, including exabyte-scale data infrastructure, Large Tabular Models (LTMs), and stateful AI agents.