Growth / Finance Lead

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

Job summary

Tera AI is seeking a finance-minded professional with strategic marketing experience to support investor relations and financial planning as the company expands rapidly.

You will collaborate with sales and product teams on marketing content, identify market opportunities, and drive cross-functional projects to optimize budgets and resource allocation across operations, finance, and business development.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with financial modeling ability.
• Experience in an investor-facing role and producing investor-related content.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting financial and growth insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Background in sales or business development supporting deal structuring, customer conversations, and pipeline forecasting.
• Proven project management skills including planning, prioritization and cross-team coordination.
• Experience in autonomy-related industries is beneficial.
• Comfort in an early-stage, fast-paced environment with proactive ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-functional projects and coordinate with sales, product, finance and marketing teams.
• Optimize budgets and resource allocation to support rapid expansion.
• Contribute to strategic decisions across operations, finance and business development.
• Collaborate with sales and product teams on marketing content for investors and partners.
• Identify new market opportunities and strategic partnerships to accelerate growth.

Skills

Analytical skills

Investor relations

Clear communication

Sales/Business development

Project management

Autonomy industries knowledge

Ownership mindset

Job description

We are a well capitalized stealth VC-backed startup building a new type of spatial AI capable of universally solving autonomy. We innovate at the foundational layer of AI by training our own AI models.

Our team

Our team is composed of AI pioneers and leaders from Google X, Google Brain, and Space Agencies. Several of us are repeat founders, with deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments. We enjoy long, deep ideations around entirely unexplored AI use cases in autonomy (cars, drones, robots).

Who you are

Extreme ownership: you would rather be accountable for one thing being good than involved in five.

Curious: you obsess over the detail others skip, particularly the ones users hit.

Driven by Discomfort: You are willing to be the person who says no to an exciting research idea this quarter.

Fast learner: you pick things up faster than the people around you.

Zero ego: you solicit feedback rather than tolerate it, including from users who are blunt about it.

Founder Mentality: You fix the most pressing problem of the day regardless of title.

Educator: you turn what users tell you into a roadmap the team understands, not a queue it resents.

Role

This is cross-function role. We're looking for a finance-minded person with strategic marketing experience focused on investor relations and strategic financial planning to support the company’s rapid expansion. This role also involves collaborating with sales and product teams on marketing content, and identifying new market opportunities and partnerships. The role also involves managing cross-functional projects, optimizing budgets and resource allocation, and contributing to strategic decisions across operations, finance, and business development.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills, including financial modeling
• Experience in a investor-facing role and producing content related to this
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial and growth insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Background in sales or business development, with the ability to support deal structuring, customer conversations, and pipeline forecasting.
• Proven project management skills, including planning, prioritization, and coordination across multiple teams.
• Experience in autonomy-related industries is beneficial.
• Comfort in an early-stage, fast-paced environment, with a proactive and ownership-driven approach to problem solving.