Strategic Finance, Founder's Office

Laminar; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct impact on product and culture.

Competitive salary and bonus

Equity

401k plan with employer matching

Greentown Labs network access

Comprehensive benefits package

Transportation benefit

Lunch & Learn and team events

Job summary

Laminar is seeking a strategic finance leader to connect financial insight with company decisions. You will own the operating model, determine capital allocation, and play a central role in the next fundraise, while actively building new initiatives.

You will build integrated models, lead budgeting and reporting, and evaluate investments in new markets and capabilities. The role offers equity and opportunities for growth in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic finance, investment banking, investing, or startup operations. You can build a rigorous model, explain what it means, and use it to make decisions.
• You want responsibility for what happens after the analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build the financial model connecting sales, deployment capacity, engineering investment, and cash requirements.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, headcount planning, and management reporting.
• Understand account and deployment economics, and evaluate investments in new markets and capabilities.
• Drive fundraising preparation and execution alongside the founders, including the narrative, data room, and diligence.
• Take selected strategic initiatives from business case through launch.

Job description

The Role

Work directly with Laminar's founders to connect financial insight with the decisions that shape the company. You’ll own the operating model, help determine where capital goes, and play a central role in the next fundraise, while getting directly involved in building new initiatives.

What You Will Own

• Build the financial model connecting sales, deployment capacity, engineering investment, and cash requirements
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, headcount planning, and management reporting
• Understand account and deployment economics, and evaluate investments in new markets and capabilities
• Drive fundraising preparation and execution alongside the founders, including the narrative, data room, and diligence
• Take selected strategic initiatives from business case through launch

What You’ll Bring

Experience in strategic finance, investment banking, investing, or startup operations. You can build a rigorous model, explain what it means, and use it to make decisions. You want responsibility for what happens after the analysis.

Your opportunity

Shape capital allocation and build toward broader finance or operating leadership.

Benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
• Transportation benefit for your commute
• A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events

Learn How We Think

• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
• Customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

• Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)
• Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.
• Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

• Please ensure you add the runlaminar.com domain to your safe senders list to ensure you receive our communications.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Our pay ranges are established per Pave Compensation Software. We’re also proud to offer equity in our fast-growing startup and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages among startups at our stage. Laminar pays 100% of the individual health insurance premium for HMO medical, vision, and dental, offers flexible PTO, a $90/month transportation benefit, a $65/month health and wellness benefit, FSA, 12 company-paid holidays, an employer-matching 401(k) (unheard of at this stage!), and Greentown Labs membership, among other valuable resources. (*subject to change)