Director Audit Transformation – AI SaaS Growth Role

Fieldguide; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Flexible PTO

401k

Wellness benefits

Work from home reimbursement

Job summary

Fieldguide is seeking a Director, Audit Transformation in the US to lead the shift to an agentic audit operating model. You will drive expertise design, adoption, and scaling across large CPA firms, partnering with product, engineering, and customer success to embed professional standards into AI-driven workflows and methodologies.

You will shape strategy, transform engagements at scale, and represent Fieldguide to regulators, firms, and industry bodies.

Qualifications

• CPA with 10+ years of financial audit experience at a public accounting firm or equivalent.
• Experience designing or scaling a repeatable transformation/change-management program (playbooks, maturity models, training).
• Strong expertise in auditing standards and audit methodology.

Responsibilities

• Define audit agent workflows in product discovery and roadmap planning, translating practitioner needs into specs.
• Collaborate with AI architects to embed standards into prompts, guardrails, and agent workflows.
• Lead transformation engagements with strategic accounts and guide adoption to scale.
• Monitor regulatory developments and translate implications into product & methodology roadmaps.
• Represent Fieldguide externally via content, webinars, and speaking engagements.
• Partner with Sales to deliver executive briefings and technical validation with leadership.

Skills

Agentic AI workflows

Change management at scale

Product discovery & roadmap

Executive engagement & GTM

Education

CPA with 10+ years audit experience

Job description

Director Audit Transformation – AI SaaS Growth Role in Lima

This is a high-impact, senior individual-contributor-to-leadership role at the intersection of Big 4 audit expertise and cutting-edge AI — a rare combination that commands strong market positioning.

Compensation Context: No salary is listed, but Director-level roles at well-funded VC-backed SaaS companies (Series B/C, $125M+ raised) in San Francisco typically range from $180,000-$250,000 base, with meaningful equity upside. The "competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership" language reinforces this. Joining at this stage — before the company reaches full scale — maximizes equity value potential.

Skills You'll Build:

• Agentic AI workflow design and LLM prompt architecture for professional services — an extremely high-demand, emerging skill set.
• Enterprise change management at scale across top-100 CPA firms, including Big 4.
• Cross-functional product influence: translating domain expertise into product specs alongside engineers and AI architects.
• Executive go-to-market experience: briefings, onsites, and competitive positioning at the C-suite level.

Green Flags: 50%+ market penetration of top-100 CPA firms is exceptional traction. Industry-leading NPS signals real customer love. The Goldman Sachs / Bessemer investor roster adds credibility and exit optionality.

Watch For: This role spans product, customer success, sales support, and external thought leadership simultaneously — a wide remit that can lead to overextension without clear prioritization. Candidates should probe the reporting structure and team size during interviews to ensure adequate support.

Overall, this is a career-defining opportunity for a CPA with transformation experience who wants to shape the future of audit AI rather than implement someone else's vision.

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners with AI agents. Based in San Francisco, they have raised over $125M+ in venture funding from top Silicon Valley investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.

Fieldguide has become the defining agentic company for CPAs, with more than 50%+ of the top-100 CPA firms as customers, including several Big 4, and an industry-leading NPS to match. They save up to 75% of time on manual tasks and unlock over 4x capacity for audit practitioners, helping provide the work-life balance that is rare in the profession. Fieldguide is on the same growth curve as the later-stage vertical AI leaders, but you would be joining early enough to have a meaningful impact.

Fieldguide values diversity, both in backgrounds and in experiences, to help build the future of audit and advisory. They are deliberate in preserving a winning culture with their FFLOWI values — Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-Win, Inclusive — providing space for teammates to do their career's best work through a tightly-knit support network.

If you want to shape the most important shift in how commerce and capital markets establish trust, alongside world-class teammates, Fieldguide would love to build with you.

About the Role

The Director, Audit Transformation will lead the shift from traditional audit execution to an agentic operating model. Reporting to the Head of Audit, you will set the direction for how financial audit agents are designed, adopted, and scaled across the customer base.

You will serve as the connection point between the Fieldguide agentic platform and the profession it serves. In partnership with product, engineering, sales, and customer success, you will define the scope of the audit expertise behind an agentic operating model — rather than layering agents onto legacy processes — including the documentation required to satisfy professional standards and withstand regulatory inspection. With Customer Success, you will establish the change management framework that guides firms from initial adoption through full transformation, built for consistent delivery at scale.

You will also support the Head of Audit on strategic planning and special initiatives that translate audit strategy into execution and go-to-market initiatives.

This role calls for a leader with audit credibility earned through leading engagements, shaping methodology, or driving innovation within a leading firm, together with the conviction that professional judgment remains central to the audit. This is an opportunity to define how audit is delivered in the next decade, not to refine how it is delivered today.

What You'll Do

Product Partnership

• Serve as the audit domain expert in product discovery, prioritization, and roadmap planning for agent-based workflows, translating practitioner and firm needs into product specs.
• Work with AI architects and engineers to translate professional standards and practitioner judgment into the prompts, workflows, and guardrails behind integrated methodologies and testing agents.
• Determine which procedures are suitable for agent execution, what level of autonomy is appropriate, and how output must be documented to satisfy professional standards and withstand regulatory inspection.
• Pressure-test new agent capabilities with practitioners before they ship, creating a tight feedback loop between the field, Methodology, and Product.

Customer Transformation

• Own, with Customer Success, the transformation motion that guides firms from initial adoption to full agentic audit transformation, including the playbook, maturity model, and program structure behind it.
• Equip Customer Success with the frameworks, content, and training to deliver transformation engagements repeatably and at scale, rather than one-off and bespoke.
• Serve as executive sponsor and audit subject-matter expert on transformation engagements with Fieldguide's most strategic accounts.
• Act as an escalation point on complex methodology and adoption issues.
• Monitor customer health and methodology fit, feeding what you learn back into product and methodology roadmaps.
• Represent Fieldguide externally through written content, webinars, and speaking engagements such as AICPA ENGAGE and state CPA societies, and through relationships with standard-setters, regulators, and industry analysts.
• Monitor regulatory and standard-setting developments across the PCAOB, AICPA, and SEC, and translate the implications into Fieldguide's product, methodology, and messaging.

Go-to-Market Support

• Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on go-to-market opportunities, leading executive briefings, product demonstrations, and technical validation conversations with firm leadership.
• Represent Fieldguide on customer onsites, building credibility with both firm leadership and technical evaluators.
• Support Sales and Marketing with audit-credible narrative, competitive positioning, and content across top-of-funnel and late-stage deals.

About You

• CPA with 10+ years of financial audit experience at a public accounting firm, including senior leadership, national office, or innovation/transformation exposure, and direct experience with regulatory and standard-setting bodies.
• Experience designing or scaling a repeatable transformation or change-management program (playbooks, maturity models, training).
• Strong expertise in auditing standards and audit methodology.
• Experience with audit technology, automation, or AI-enabled tools, audit methodologies, templates, or workpapers.
• Working knowledge of quality control/quality management standards as they relate to methodology and audit documentation.
• Ability to translate professional standards into structured workflows and logic.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.
• Executive presence and the confidence to lead demos, onsites, and validation sprints directly in front of firm leadership and regulators.

Nice to Haves

• Active involvement with AICPA, state CPA societies, or standard-setting bodies.
• Experience building or scaling a firm-wide innovation or transformation initiative.
• Experience working in audit methodology, quality, or national office roles.
• Expertise in international auditing standards and methodologies.
• Experience with LLM-based or agentic workflows, prompt design, or AI-enabled audit tooling.

More About Fieldguide

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

• Fearless — Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
• Fast — Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
• Lovable — Deliver happiness & 11-star experiences.
• Owners — Execute & run the business with ownership.
• Win-Win — Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
• Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of Our Benefits Include

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
• Flexible PTO
• 401k
• Wellness benefits starting on your first day
• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement

Is this role fully remote or is there an in-office requirement? Fieldguide offers flexible work schedules and a Technology & Work from Home reimbursement, indicating remote-friendly policies. However, the role involves customer onsites, executive briefings, and speaking engagements (e.g., AICPA ENGAGE), so regular in-person travel within the US is expected.

What qualifications are required for the Director, Audit Transformation role? Candidates must be a CPA with 10+ years of financial audit experience at a public accounting firm, including senior leadership, national office, or innovation/transformation exposure. Direct experience with regulatory and standard-setting bodies (PCAOB, AICPA, SEC) is also required.

What is the compensation for this position? Fieldguide lists "competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership" as a benefit, but no specific salary range is disclosed in the job posting. The role also includes a 401k, flexible PTO, and wellness benefits.

What does the day-to-day work look like for this role? The role spans three main areas: product partnership (translating audit standards into AI agent workflows), customer transformation (guiding CPA firms through agentic adoption), and go-to-market support (executive briefings, onsites, and sales enablement). Expect a cross-f…

Is experience with AI or LLMs required for this position? AI or LLM experience is listed as a "Nice to Have" rather than a strict requirement. The core requirement is deep audit expertise; Fieldguide will work with you to apply that expertise to their agentic platform.

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