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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
FLORA is building the world's most powerful creative tools: a creative workspace with purpose-built AI tools for every step of the creative process. Our mission is to make creatives more powerful. Teams at Pentagram, Nike, Prada, and Lionsgate use FLORA to move from first concept to finished, on-brand work at scale.
In January 2026 we raised a $42M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, bringing total funding to $52M, alongside investors including Menlo Ventures, a16z, and Hanabi Capital.
We're hiring our first Director of Finance to lead FLORA's finance function. Your mandate is to turn our numbers into decisions and actions that improve our finances. How we price, where we spend, and how we manage finances are core to how we build the company, not a back-office exercise.
This is a hands-on director role. You'll own the function end to end, build the model yourself, and also make sure the right invoice gets approved and the right customer pays on time. You'll work closely with our leads for Data, Operations, Product, Marketing, and Sales, and with our founder and CEO.
Strategic finance
Lead pricing and packaging analysis for self-serve and enterprise, including plan and usage pricing, plan tiers, and discounting guidelines
Ensure all our costs are accounted for and warranted, from inference and infrastructure spend to vendor contracts, software, and promotional credits
Own gross margin as a company metric. Partner with our Head of Data to define and oversee margins by plan and model.
Work with functional leads to turn recommendations into owned initiatives with clear targets, then track them through to results
Planning and forecasting (FP&A)
Build and own FLORA's operating model: revenue targets and the operating drivers behind them, headcount, burn, and runway
Lead the annual budget and quarterly forecasts with the CEO and functional leads
Own headcount planning with the CEO: build the hiring plan, model fully loaded cost per role, and tie every hire to the budget and financials
Partner with RevOps and Sales leadership on the sales capacity plan, owning the financial side: headcount cost, hiring timing against budget and runway, and tying quota capacity to the company revenue plan
Partner with RevOps on sales compensation: forecast and accrue commission expense, review payout calculations, and make sure payroll runs draws and true-ups cleanly and on time
Run scenario analysis on hiring, spend, and fundraising timing so leadership can make trade-offs with clear numbers
Accounting, reporting, and controls
Run the monthly close with our external accountants. Review the books, identify key trends and anomalies, and deliver a monthly financial package to the executive team with recommendations
Establish financial controls that fit our size: spend policies, approval workflows, and vendor management
Oversee accounts payable, including bill approvals, vendor payments, and employee reimbursements
Oversee accounts receivable and collections for enterprise customers: invoicing, payment terms, and follow-up on overdue balances
Investors, compliance, and fundraising readiness
Own financial reporting to investors and the board, including monthly investor updates and board meeting materials
Support fundraising, including preparing a clean data room, consistent metrics definitions, and financials that hold up to diligence
Manage the equity pool and cap table: oversee and implement any employee equity actions (e.g. new equity grants, exercise requests), track pool usage against the hiring plan, model grant sizes and refresh needs, and coordinate 409A valuations
Work with outside advisors on tax filings, sales tax and VAT exposure across our global customer base, R&D tax credits, and audit readiness
Choose and improve our finance systems and processes as we scale
8+ years in finance, and ideally 3+ years at a venture-backed startup in SaaS, usage-based, or AI businesses
Experience as the senior finance person, owning a broad finance scope at a growing company
Strong command of SaaS and usage-based financial metrics
Solid grounding in GAAP accrual accounting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, and COGS classification
Experience building operating models, budgets, and headcount plans from scratch, and keeping them current as the business changes
Experience with sales capacity planning and commission plan design
A builder's bias: you're as comfortable chasing an overdue invoice as presenting to the board
Clear, direct communication. You can turn a set of financials into decisions the executive team should make this month
The judgment to put controls in place without slowing the team down
Curiosity about creative industries and the tools creatives use
Experience at an AI company managing inference or third-party model costs
Hands-on experience designing pricing for usage or credit-based products
Led or supported fundraising at a venture-backed company, including diligence
Location: This is a full-time, in-person role in New York City. We work together from our office in the Domino Refinery building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Compensation: Base salary range: $185K to $225K plus equity.
Benefits: Health, dental, and vision coverage and a free Equinox membership in our office building.
