Financial Controller

Pylon Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

14 company holidays

Unlimited PTO

Annual offsite

Lunch, dinner, and snacks

Fitness stipend

Job summary

Pylon Labs is seeking its first Controller, a foundational role responsible for all aspects of accounting as the company scales. This high-impact position reports to the VP of Finance and involves managing financial reporting, accounting operations, and external relationships.

The ideal candidate has significant experience in high-growth venture-backed startups, deep technical accounting knowledge, and a CPA.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in a Controller or Senior Accounting Manager role.
• Experience owning a full-cycle close process and audit process.
• Deep technical accounting knowledge including ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidations.
• CPA required.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end close processes and financial statement preparation.
• Oversee AR and AP processes, partnering with various teams.
• Implement and own the systems that will enable the business to scale.
• Design and implement robust internal controls.
• Leverage AI agents and automation to reduce manual workflows.
• Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners.

Skills

Financial reporting

Accounting operations

Systems & Infrastructure

Controls & Audit Readiness

Automation

External relationships

Technical accounting knowledge

CPA

Job description

Pylon is the only agentic support platform, purpose-built for B2B companies. For leaders scaling AI-native support teams, Pylon lets humans and agents collaborate on customer work – investigating, resolving, and acting on every signal across every channel that matters. Unlike platforms built before the AI era, Pylon enriches every interaction with deep account-level context, automates the low impact customer work, and surfaces answers before your team even has to ask. The result: faster responses, happier customers, and a system that continuously improves itself. We’re backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. More than 1,500 companies including Linear, Cognition (makers of Devin), Modal Labs, and Incident.io run their support and customer success workflows on Pylon. We’re also featured on the Enterprise Tech 30 List.

The Role

We’re hiring Pylon’s first Controller. This is a high-impact, foundational role. You’ll own all aspects of accounting, oversee relationships with third-parties, and support the business as we scale from Series B and beyond. The role reports to the VP of Finance.

What You’ll Do

• Financial Reporting: Own month-end close processes, consolidations, and financial statement preparation in accordance with GAAP
• Accounting Operations: Oversee processes including AR (Order-to-Cash) and AP (Procure-to-Pay), partnering closely with sales, rev ops, legal, and operations teams
• Systems & Infrastructure: Implement and own the systems that will enable the business to scale (from ERP to reporting infrastructure)
• Controls & Audit Readiness: Design and implement robust internal controls and establish audit-ready processes
• Automation: Leverage AI agents and automation to reduce manual workflows such as transaction categorization and reconciliations
• External Relationships: Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners

Requirements

• Professional experience in a Controller or Senior Accounting Manager role at a high-growth venture-backed start-up
• Experience owning a full-cycle close process and audit process
• Experience building or improving systems and processes from the ground up, not just inheriting a mature function
• Deep technical accounting knowledge including ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidations
• CPA required

Nice to Haves

• Prior public accounting background
• First-audit experience
• ERP implementation or migration experience

This Role Might NOT Be For You If

• You want a team from day one; you’ll build the team as we scale
• You prefer steady-state maintenance over building and improving processes
• You don’t love being in the details

Our perks

• Commuter benefits
• Parental leave
• 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO
• Annual offsite
• Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office
• Fitness stipend

Funding

Series B led by a16z and BCV ($51M total raised)

Founders

Advith Chelikani, Robert Eng, and Marty Kausas

Team

Currently 100+ and growing!