Strategic Finance, Founder's Office

Runlaminar; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Life Insurance

Disability benefits

401k with match

Equity

Salary + bonus

Transit benefit

Wellness program

Team events

Job summary

Runlaminar seeks a senior finance leader to build and manage the company’s financial model, budgeting, forecasting, and fundraising efforts. You will partner with the founders to align capital allocation with growth strategy and operational leadership across the business.

You’ll own the operating model, drive reporting, and evaluate investments in new markets, while shaping the company’s future finance and operating vision.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic finance, investment banking, investing, or startup operations.

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.

Skills

Financial modeling

Budgeting & forecasting

Strategic finance

Fundraising

Operations finance

Job description

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

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.

• 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

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.

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

• 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 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

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

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