🌍 Founding CFO – Join the 4MP Journey
Hybrid · HQ Allentown, PA · Founding Team · Seed Stage
We’re not just hiring. We’re building a legacy.
And founding roles don’t come often. This is one of them.
At 4MP, we are building something unprecedented — the intelligence layer that will transform how the world manufactures everything. Our AI-assisted Digital Twin platform enables autonomous CNC self-correction, bringing precision through learning, adaptation, and real-time insight.
We are assembling a small circle of pioneers who will help shape a technological transformation measured not in years, but in decades.
You are not applying for a role.
You are stepping into a journey, a mission, and a legacy-building opportunity.
We are seeking a Founding Chief Financial Officer who will help build the financial, strategic, and operational backbone of 4MP — from capital strategy to organizational scale.
🚀 Company Description
4MP Inc. is redefining manufacturing through an AI-assisted Digital Twin SaaS platform that translates real-world variation into actionable intelligence.
This enables:
- Autonomous CNC self-correction
- First-Part-Right and Every-Part-Right
- Distributed, agile manufacturing
- Precision without mechanical perfection
- Intelligent production systems that evolve
We are building the foundation for the next era of global manufacturing — and the financial architecture must match the ambition of the technology.
🧭 Role Description: Founding CFO (Active Pre-Funding Role)
This is a hands-on, high-impact founding role.
You will shape the financial strategy, capital structure, and operational readiness of 4MP before major scaling begins.
Your Impact
You will:
- Lead capital strategy and prepare the company for fundraising
- Drive investor engagement, due diligence readiness, and financial storytelling
- Build financial models, long-range forecasts, and discipline across the organization
- Create early financial systems, processes, and controls
- Recruit and assemble key elements of the early Finance & Ops core team
- Align technical and software development milestones with financial strategy
- Partner with the CEO on organizational design and scaling readiness
- Build the financial ecosystem required for hockey-stick scaling
This role is central to the future of 4MP — the engine behind growth, discipline, and long-term value creation.
🎓 Qualifications
Required
- Strong experience leading capital raises (Seed, Series A, or beyond)
- Deep expertise in strategic finance, FP&A, modeling, and forecasting
- Experience building financial systems from the ground up
- Strong understanding of both software economics and hardware/manufacturing cost structures
- Capability to support rapid growth or early-stage scale
- Excellent investor relations and financial communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or related field
Preferred
- MBA strongly preferred
- Experience in:
- Software / SaaS companies
- Manufacturing, industrial systems, automation, or deep-tech
- Engineering-driven or precision-critical organizations
- Background in grant strategy, non-dilutive funding, or partnerships
- Experience scaling teams from early stage to hypergrowth
- Understanding of enterprise SaaS metrics, ARR economics, margin modeling, and subscription-based revenue mechanics
Mindset
- Builder, architect, strategic operator
- High integrity, high accountability
- Thrives in complexity and ambiguity
- Understands both software scaling patterns and industrial real-world constraints
- Sees finance as a growth engine, not a compliance function
- Motivated by impact and legacy, not conventional pathways
💼 Compensation Structure
- Compensation activates as the company transitions into its next capital and execution stage
- Pre-transition role is a founding/advisory hybrid with active involvement
- Includes attractive founding-level equity
- Full-time CFO responsibilities activate upon organizational transition
🧩 Why Join Now?
Because joining now means shaping the origin of a technological transformation.
You will:
- Build the financial foundation
- Drive capital strategy
- Shape the organizational path
- Assemble the early financial and operational capability
- Be part of a leadership team driving hockey-stick scaling
- Leave a long-term legacy in the manufacturing and software industries
This is the rare moment before momentum becomes history.
🧭 Role Description: Founding CHRO (Active Pre-Funding Role)
This is not a planning-only role.
It is an active, hands-on founding role where you will begin assembling and working with the early core team that shapes the company before product deployment and scaling.
Your Impact
You will:
- Recruit and assemble the future leaders and core team members who will contribute to early thinking, architecture discussions, and strategic shaping of the company
- Build an early circle of contributors who can participate in initial problem-solving, mapping sessions, and high-level technical and organizational design
- Facilitate early collaboration workshops and alignment sessions for prospective founding contributors
- Establish culture, leadership norms, and operating principles through real interaction — not documents
- Partner directly with the CEO to build the foundational team dynamics, communication standards, and organizational structure
- Create the People Foundation that will support hockey-stick scaling as the company grows
This role sits at the center of the company’s origin story.
🎓 Qualifications
Required
- 10–20+ years of HR leadership experience
- Track record of building teams in high-growth or high-intensity environments
- Experience recruiting specialized and highly technical talent
- Deep expertise in HR strategy, talent management, and people systems
- Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Organizational Psychology, or related discipline
Preferred
- MBA strongly preferred
- SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or similar certifications
- Background in:
- Manufacturing or industrial technology
- Automation, CNC, robotics, or engineering-driven companies
- Deep-tech, software, or complex technical organizations
- Experience scaling companies through rapid expansion
- Ability to align People strategy with technical and mission-driven teams
Mindset
- Builder, architect, pioneer
- High ownership and resilience
- Excited by ambiguity and early-stage creation
- Sees the People function as a strategic engine, not administrative support
- Motivated by impact, legacy, and mission — not titles or comfort
💼 Compensation Structure
- Compensation activates as the company transitions into its next capital and execution phase
- Pre-transition role is a founding/advisory hybrid with active involvement in real work
- Includes attractive founding-level equity
- Full-time executive CHRO role activates upon organizational transition
🧩 Why Join Now?
Because joining later means joining a company.
Joining now means joining the foundation of a transformation.
You will:
- Assemble the earliest team
- Shape the organization’s DNA
- Influence the trajectory of the technology through the people you recruit
- Create the leadership ecosystem that supports hockey-stick scaling
- Be part of something monumental — something that will redefine manufacturing for generations
This is the rare window before momentum becomes movement — when the true builders gather.
