Strategic Finance Manager — Equity & Growth Impact

Rhoda; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots in Mountain View, CA. We are seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to own FP&A, capital markets, and investor relations as we scale a fast-moving robotics company.

This role combines advanced financial modeling with strategic decision support across engineering, hardware, operations, and sales, providing hands-on ownership from day one.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of investment banking experience at a top-tier firm.
• Startup or high-growth experience; comfortable operating without a playbook in ambiguity.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills; build models that are clean, flexible, and tell a story.
• Strong written and verbal communication; distill complex analysis into clear narratives for founders and investors.
• High ownership mentality; identify what needs to be done and execute.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets with strong modeling practices.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Rhoda's core financial model across planning cycles, scenario analysis, and board-facing presentations.
• Build scalable FP&A processes from scratch including budget cycles, variance reporting, and forecasting cadences.
• Partner with engineering, hardware, operations, and sales leadership to bring financial rigor to strategic decisions.
• Continuously improve financial processes and systems to enhance scalability, forecast precision, and data visibility.
• Conduct ad hoc strategic and financial analysis to support executive decision-making on high-priority initiatives.
• Support capital markets activity including fundraising preparation, data room management, cap table analysis, and institutional investor diligence requests.
• Maintain and update cap table models, option pool analysis, and dilution scenarios in partnership with outside counsel.
• Support investor relations including managing LP information requests, preparing board materials, and maintaining reporting cadences with institutional investors.
• Build the financial infrastructure for Rhoda's first commercial deployments including contract economics, revenue recognition frameworks, unit economics reporting, and gross margin analysis.
• Run competitive vendor procurement processes and negotiations across major spend categories including GPU infrastructure and cloud services.
• Support commercial contract review and vendor agreement negotiations alongside outside counsel.

Skills

Financial modeling

Ownership mentality

Excel/Google Sheets

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Job description

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots in Mountain View, CA. We are seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to own FP&A, capital markets, and investor relations as we scale a fast-moving robotics company.

This role combines advanced financial modeling with strategic decision support across engineering, hardware, operations, and sales, providing hands-on ownership from day one.