Strategic Finance, Founder's Office

Laminar; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

401k with employer matching

Equity

Competitive salary + bonus

Greentown Labs network

Transportation benefit

Team events

Job summary

Laminar, an edge hardware and AI startup, seeks a strategic finance leader to own the operating model, guide capital usage, and participate in the next fundraising round. You will build robust financial models, forecast resources, and partner with the founders to drive growth across global deployments and new markets.

The role focuses on aligning sales, deployments, and engineering investments with cash needs, while delivering clear reporting, robust planning, and strategic finance leadership in

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic finance, investment banking, investing, or startup operations.
• Ability to build a rigorous financial model, explain its implications, and use it to guide decisions.
• Willingness to own capital allocation decisions and support fundraising.

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 with the founders, including the narrative and data room.
• Take selected strategic initiatives from business case through launch.

Skills

Strategic finance

Financial modeling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Fundraising

Capital allocation

Education

MBA or Finance degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

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.

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 Head of Ops or 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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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.