Director of Finance

About the Role

North is hiring the first member of our finance team. This is a Director-level role reporting directly to our CEO, while partnering closely with our Chief of Staff and CEO to build structure around our finances and bring a strategic lens to how we run the business.

You'll be a full-stack finance owner. Today, our accounting runs through an external firm and our internal operations team keeps the day-to-day moving. You'll be welcome to leverage both, but the function is yours: the close, the controls, the model, and the story they tell. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for the foreseeable future. You'll get ground-floor leadership of a function that doesn't exist as a standalone unit yet, a direct line to the CEO, and the chance to shape how a fast-growing company thinks about its own economics.

What You'll Do

• Own pricing and unit economics. Continue to evolve our understanding of margins, cost of revenue, CAC/LTV, and payback and turn it into strategic guidance for the rest of the business..
• Build the systems, controls, and close. Stand up a clean, reliable monthly close, tighten revenue recognition, put sensible spend controls in place, and pick the right finance tooling for our stage.
• Be the strategic partner. Work side-by-side with the CEO and Chief of Staff on board materials, investor reporting, maintain the company forecast, annual budget, and headcount plan and the financial narrative behind major decisions. 
• Run finance day-to-day. Work with our Chief of Staff on cash management, AP/AR oversight, payroll coordination and the unglamorous work that makes everything else trustworthy.
• Set the foundation for scale. Build the processes and reporting a company twice our size will need, so finance never becomes the bottleneck.

What We're Looking For

• 8–12 years of finance experience, with meaningful time as the first or early finance hire at a VC-backed startup, ideally SaaS.
• You've built a finance function from scratch before: close process, operating model, board reporting, and the systems underneath them.
• Strong command of SaaS metrics and unit economics; you can go deep on margins and pricing and explain what you find in plain English.
• Familiarity with the economics of the public cloud.
• A hands-on operator. You're comfortable being the whole finance team, building the model and chasing down the invoice (with help).
• High judgment and discretion; you'll see everything and be trusted with all of it.
• Clear communicator who can partner with a CEO, a board, and a 40-person team without translation.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing or transitioning away from an outsourced accounting firm.
• CPA
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure economics or FinOps. Finance is literally our product.