Strategic Finance Lead

Minerva; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Monthly fitness stipend

Annual company offsite

Job summary

Minerva is seeking its first strategic finance leader to partner with the CEO, COO, and VP of Ops. You will own capital allocation models, design pricing and go-to-market policies, and drive reporting to executives and the board.

Based in New York, you will sit in the operations group, manage complex financial models from scratch, and shape investments, hiring plans, and product launches in a fast-growing AI-focused company. This is a hands-on, high-exposure role requiring candor and rigor.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years of experience in strategic finance or a similar high-rigor analytical role.
• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to build complex operating models from scratch, including unit economics.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward ownership.
• Willingness to work hours and intensity similar to leadership teams.
• Enthusiasm for AI and Minerva’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Own core financial models that guide capital allocation and resource planning.
• Design incentive systems that improve employee performance, retention and satisfaction.
• Design commercial policies (pricing, packaging, contract terms) aligning incentives with customers and financial foundations.
• Optimize A/P and A/R policies with Accounting / RevOps.
• Partner with CoS to own board, investor, and internal reporting materials, turning data into clear narratives.
• Work with the CEO & CoS to develop operating KPIs and reporting systems.
• Build business cases for strategic decisions including deal structuring, investments, hiring plans, and product launches.

Skills

Financial modeling

Strategic finance

Operating models

Unit economics

Corporate development exposure

Ambiguity tolerance

Ownership mindset

Communication

Problem-solving

Job description

ABOUT MINERVA

Minerva builds AI for marketing leaders. We work together with marketers to automate and accelerate their workflows with AI agents. Our agents augment the end-to-end workflow of the marketer by automating analysis, campaign planning, activation, measurement and reporting.

Customers like the NBA, Ramp, Wander, Hard Rock Stadium Group and Luxury Presence use Minerva to develop a better understanding of their customers and introduce AI specifically built to understand the customer into their commercial organizations. Our campaigns outperform other tools because we built the entire stack: from identity to enrichment to data integration as well as agents to action and report on the analysis.

We've raised $20M from The General Partnership, 8VC, Lingotto, NBA Investments, Topology Ventures, Future Positive, Background Capital and many others. Our team brings together operators and investors from Citadel, Dentsu, Bridgewater, Meta Superintelligence, Growthloop, Amazon and Lazard, alongside engineers and researchers from Berkeley, MIT, Stanford and Cambridge.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You’re Minerva’s first strategic finance hire. You have maximum exposure to the key business bottlenecks that the executive team grapples with on a day to day basis. Ideally you’re able to identify and take the first pass on solving many of these problems.

You sit within the operations org and work with the CEO, Chief-of-Staff, VP of Ops and broader leadership team to prioritize analyses. You prepare models that help guide capital allocation and real resource allocation.

This is a generalist role with broad scope - spanning planning, operations, go-to-market, pricing, board and investor reporting and special projects.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own the core financial models that guide capital allocation and resource planning.

• Design incentive systems that improve employee performance, retention and satisfaction.

• Design commercial policies (pricing, packaging, contract terms) that deeply align our incentives with our customers while building a sound financial foundation across products.

• Optimize A/P and A/R policies with Accounting / RevOps.

• Partner with CoS to own all board, investor, and internal reporting materials, turning complex data into clear narratives that drive decisions.

• Work with the CEO & CoS to develop operating KPIs and reporting systems.

• Build business cases for strategic decisions including deal structuring, investments, hiring plans, and product launches.

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Extreme agency, candor and rigor

• 4-7+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a similar high-rigor analytical role

• Corporate development exposure is a plus but is not required.

• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to build complex operating models from scratch, including experience with unit economics and cost structure analysis

• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward ownership

• Willingness to match or outpace the hours and intensity of the leadership team

• More likely to answer a question by finding the person who has already solved the problem than deriving an answer from first principles

• Willingness to have an opinion and share it

• Enthusiasm for AI and Minerva’s mission

COMPENSATION

Base salary: $175,000–$300,000, depending on seniority. Significant equity exposure.

WHERE WE WORK

We work in person from our office at 300 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

BENEFITS

• Every full-time role includes equity
• medical, dental and vision coverage
• unlimited PTO
• a monthly fitness stipend
• an annual company offsite

We'd rather pay people well than buy perks nobody uses.

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The salary range in this posting is our good-faith range for the role in New York City at the time of posting. Where an offer lands depends on the level and experience we see in the interview process.

WORK AUTHORIZATION

You'll need to be authorized to work in the United States. We consider visa sponsorship case by case, so tell us on the application if you'll need it.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Minerva is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, New York State or New York City law.