Strategic Finance

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (significant part of total comp

Health, dental and vision insurance

Visa sponsorship and relocation to SF

Daily lunch, dinner & snacks

Job summary

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is seeking a senior operations and finance leader in San Francisco to consolidate finance, HR, legal and vendor operations. You will own the operating model, monthly close, and board reporting, while building scalable systems and controls.

You will also oversee payroll, visas, contracts and onboarding, ensuring precise numbers trusted by the board and founders. This role blends finance leadership with hands-on operational execution.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience with a finance foundation (e.g. investment banking, PE or Big 4 accounting).
• Built from a blank page: set up ops/finance infrastructure from scratch.
• Hands-on beyond finance: payroll, visas, contracts and onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Insource and own core finance operations - map vendors, contractors and outside firms, and bring HR, legal and vendor admin in-house.
• Centralize spend and financial controls - consolidate spend, set approvals and policy, monthly close on fixed calendar.
• Own strategic finance and board reporting - build operating model, run board packs and financial analysis, flag variances with fixes.
• Build the systems layer - replace manual work with tooling, automations and new business line scaffolding.

Skills

Finance foundation

First/early finance hire

Hands-on finance ops

Detail-oriented

Discretion

Urgency & structure

Enables others

Education

CPA certification (nice to have)

Job description

About AIUC

AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI. Our mission is Underwrite superintelligence. We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI. AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us.

The Role

We’re looking for someone to define AIUC’s operational backbone. You’ll bring in-house the finance, HR, legal and vendor operations we currently stitch together. You’ll build the financial infrastructure a fast-scaling company needs: the operating model, board reporting, spend controls and monthly close.

In practice this means you will:

• Insource and own core finance operations - map every vendor, contractor and outside firm, decide what to keep, cut or bring in-house, and take over HR, legal and vendor admin from the founders.

• Centralize spend and financial controls - consolidate spend into one place, set approval thresholds and card & reimbursement policy, and run a monthly close on a fixed calendar.

• Own strategic finance and board reporting - build and run the operating model (burn, runway, headcount plan, revenue), produce board packs and financial analysis, and flag variances early with an operational fix attached.

• Build the systems layer - replace manual work with tooling, automations and agents, and stand up the scaffolding new business lines need (entity structure, licensing, audit-ready records) as we move into underwriting.

Over time, you’ll support the revenue side (invoicing, sales analytics, light pricing work). You’ll own the plan that keeps overhead growing slower than headcount, and you’ll build a small team or fractional bench under you (ops associate, controller, fractional CFO).

What we’re looking for

• 6-10 years of experience with a finance foundation, eg investment banking, PE or Big 4 accounting (a CPA is a plus), and time as the first or an early finance & ops hire at a venture-backed Seed-Series B company.

• Built from a blank page - you’ve set up ops or finance infrastructure from scratch, not only operated inside an existing system.

• Hands-on beyond finance - you handle payroll, visas, contracts and onboarding, and you enjoy that half of the job as much as the modelling.

• Detail-obsessed - leadership and the board can trust your numbers without re-checking them.

• Discretion - you treat comp, cap table and board materials as need-to-know without being told.

• Urgency and structure - you take an ambiguous ask once and come back with a finished thing. When you cut scope, you cut it deliberately and name the trade-off.

• Finds satisfaction in enabling others and takes pride in operations that run invisibly.

Our Values

We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers.

• Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard.

• Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace.

• Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work.

• Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions.

Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours,

Compensation & Perks

• Competitive annual salary

• Equity (significant part of total compensation)

• Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents

• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed

• Daily lunch, dinner & snacks