Head of Finance San Francisco

Braintrust Data, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

Job summary

Braintrust Data, Inc. is seeking a Head of Finance to build and lead our finance function from the ground up. This role involves strategic planning, capital allocation, and financial discipline to support our rapid growth.

Ideal candidates will have 8-12+ years in finance, a proven track record in leadership, and excellent communication skills. The position offers competitive salary, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of progressive finance experience in strategic finance or related fields.
• Proven ability to build or lead a finance function effectively.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage forecasting, financial planning, and capital allocation.
• Ensure financial discipline and establish budgets across the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on financial strategies.

Skills

Financial modeling

Strategic finance

Budgeting

Cross-functional partnership

Communication

Job description

Braintrust is the AI observability platform. By connecting evals and observability in one workflow, Braintrust gives builders the visibility to understand how AI behaves in production and the tools to improve it.

Teams at Notion, Stripe, and Vercel use Braintrust to compare models, test prompts, and catch regressions — turning production data into better AI with every release.

About the role

As the Head of Finance, you will build and lead Braintrust’s finance function from the ground up. You’ll sit at the center of our most critical decisions, owning planning, stress-testing bets, and partnering directly with our leadership team to allocate capital against our biggest opportunities.

You’ll play a critical role in how Braintrust scales. In the early stages, this is a hands-on role where you will build financial models, manage forecasting, and establish operational discipline. Over time, you will define our strategic finance function, build repeatable processes, and scale a high-performing team.

You’ll partner closely with GTM, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations to ensure decisions are grounded in sound economic principles and long-term value creation, while feeding insights back into how we improve our business model.

What you’ll do

Strategic Planning & Forecasting: Manage forecasting, financial planning, and capital allocation. Own our quarterly and annual planning cycle end-to-end, guiding overall company strategy and resource allocation.

Financial Discipline & Budgeting: Ensure financial discipline and set budgets across the organization. Establish and uphold rigorous financial principles, ensuring teams make decisions grounded in strong unit economics.

Performance Monitoring: Monitor KPIs and performance across teams and the overall company. Build dashboards and identify the right levers to accelerate growth and efficiency.

Headcount & Hiring Strategy: Collaborate closely with the recruiting team and managers on headcount planning, hiring prioritization, and organizational scaling.

Treasury & Cash Management: Manage treasury strategy, monitor cash flow, and optimize our capital structure to support hyper-growth.

Cross-Functional Partnership: Operate cross-functionally by design, partnering deeply with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering, to ensure aligned priorities and data-driven decision-making.

Board & Investor Relations: Create materials for our Board meetings and serve as a key partner on future fundraising processes, communicating our financial performance and long-term strategy.

Experience: 8-12+ years of progressive finance experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Investment Banking, ideally within a high-growth B2B SaaS or AI technology company.

Leadership: Proven track record of building or leading a finance function, with the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in an early-stage or scaling environment.

Analytical Rigor: Deep expertise in financial modeling, long-range planning, and capital allocation. You can build from scratch, stress-test assumptions, and translate complex data into clear strategic insight.

Business Acumen: A strategic and business-minded perspective, capable of balancing financial rigor with bold, long-term thinking. Familiarity with ARR-based business metrics and subscription economics.

Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex financial topics into clear, compelling narratives for executives, the Board, and investors.

Execution: High ownership mentality. You take initiative, drive projects to completion, and hold yourself to a high bar. You can take ambiguous business needs and turn them into structured, executable plans.

Benefits include

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

Equal opportunity

Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.