Strategic Finance Manager

AssemblyAI is a remote-first AI company building powerful deep learning models for developers, startups, and enterprises to transcribe and understand their audio data.

Our ASR models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our APIs to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day. Our APIs power innovative products like conversational intelligence platforms, zoom meeting summarizers, content moderation, and automatic closed captioning.

AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text APIs are already trusted by Fortune 500s, startups, and thousands of developers around the world, with well-known customers including Spotify, Algolia, Dow Jones, Happy Scribe, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and NBCUniversal. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in speech recognition and NLP.

We're growing at breakneck speed, and recently announced our Series B round. We've raised $63M in total funding, and are backed by leading investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Y Combinator, Patrick and John Collision (Founders of Stripe), Nat Friedman (Former CEO of GitHub), and Daniel Gross (Entrepreneur & Investor in companies including GitHub, Uber & SpaceX)!

Our ambition is to build an iconic AI company, making advanced deep learning technology accessible to everyday developers through a simple API, good docs, and a great developer experience.

Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic deep learning company!

The Role

AssemblyAI is growing super quickly!  We’re looking for a high energy, high impact and extremely accountable individual with strong finance, analytics, project & program management skills.  You will report to the Head of Finance & Operations, and will be the third employee on the Finance team (currently, the team is just the Head of Finance and Controller).

This is a fantastic chance to get into a well-capitalized, best-of-breed applied AI company, and help build-out/scale a top tier Finance & Operations organization!

Responsibilities

• Business metrics & KPIs: In coordination with key business partners, create and improve business metrics; set targets; design reports / dashboards; draw insights; present to leadership via digestible written and oral presentations
• Financial & operational modeling: continue to develop and improve our financial & operating models; contribute to long-term financial & capital planning; develop top of funnel modeling; develop capacity model
• Planning: Continue to iterate and improve our near-mid term planning processes; depending on the start date, own a meaningful portion of our 2023 plan
• Reporting: Improve our internal and external reporting capabilities; drive follow-up actions and responses
• Interface with legal counsel and streamline commercial and corporate legal matters
• Corporate development responsibilities as-needed 

Requirements

• 3-7+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Consulting or start-up experience (biz ops / analytics / finance)
• Passion, energy, scrappiness, hunger and hustle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to apply traditional investment banking and consulting thinking frameworks to solve ambiguous financial, data analytics and operational biz problems
• Incredible presentation building skills for internal and external audiences
• Ability to interface with interdisciplinary business leaders, and use traditional business frameworks to assist them in problem solving
• Top-notch Microsoft excel, google sheets, google slides and powerpoint skills.  
• Financial modeling expertise

Our Team

Our team is made up of problem solvers, innovators and top AI researchers with over 20+ years of experience in Machine Learning, NLP, and Speech Recognition from companies like DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta, Apple and Amazon. They conduct cutting edge deep learning research and develop novel algorithms & techniques to continually push the state of the art in speech recognition & NLP!

Our team is fully remote, and our culture is super collaborative, low-ego, transparent, and fast-paced. We want to win - and have a flat organization where everyone can openly share ideas (regardless of their title or position) in order to get the best idea.

As a remote company, our team members are given a lot of trust and autonomy to work where and how they want. We look for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and self-motivated, and we put a lot of trust and autonomy into everyone on our team. We want to empower everyone to do their best work with whatever tools, structures, or resources they need to perform at their highest potential.

Benefits (US)

• Competitive Salary + Bonus
• Equity
• 401k
• 100% Remote team
• Unlimited PTO
• Premium Healthcare (100% Covered for you + dependents)
• Vision & Dental Care
• $1K budget for your home office setup
• New Macbook Pro (or PC if you prefer)
• 2x/year company paid team retreat