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Controller owning accounting operations, close, tax, systems, and team-building for LanceDB’s AI-native multimodal data lakehouse. Supporting scalable growth and financial infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Own day-to-day accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll accounting, fixed assets, accruals, prepaids, and general ledger management
- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process
- Prepare financial statements and supporting schedules
- Own and continuously improve financial systems and the accounting technology stack, including ERP and related integrations
- Oversee corporate income tax, sales/use tax, payroll tax, and applicable federal, state, and local tax and licensing requirements with external advisors
- Establish scalable processes, controls, and reporting infrastructure for future fundraising, audit requirements, and potential international expansion
- Partner with the CFO, executives, and cross-functional leaders to translate accounting and financial issues into business implications and recommendations
- Attract, hire, develop, and retain the accounting team
- Manage the outsourced accounting firm
- Serve as a hands-on leader and mentor to the accounting team
Requirements:
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally at a high-growth technology or SaaS company
- Proven track record of building accounting functions, systems, processes, and controls from the ground up and scaling them as the business grows
- Strong technical accounting foundation and deep understanding of US GAAP
- Excellent analytical, organizational, communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous and highly collaborative environment
- Strong business judgment and ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, People, Operations and executive leadership
- Experience hiring, developing and managing an accounting team
- Passion for building strong foundations and relationships that enable a company to scale
- CPA or equivalent accounting qualification (nice to have)
- Experience at a venture-backed, Series B or later technology company (nice to have)
- Experience implementing an ERP and broader finance technology stack (nice to have)
- Experience with revenue recognition for subscription or usage-based business models (nice to have)
- Experience supporting investor relations (nice to have)
- Experience working with lean, distributed and remote-first teams (nice to have)
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer
- Must be located in the United States or Canada
Benefits:
- Compelling equity grants
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Commuter benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave program for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
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