About Passive
Finding your next step shouldn’t feel like work — especially for high-performing professionals. At Passive, we’re re-engineering career discovery for the 70% of talent who are open to something better but too busy to look. With AI-curated roles, instant resume tailoring, and one-tap apply, we make it effortless for professionals to stay open to opportunity without the friction of job boards, recruiters, or endless searching.
Our vision is simple: create the world’s most trusted, candidate-first platform for career mobility — where growth is intuitive, private, and fast.
Here is a quick video of Passive in action.
The Role
We’re hiring a Chief Financial Officer to join our founding leadership team and help steer Passive into its next phase of growth. This executive will be both a strategic architect and an operational counterweight — partnering with the CEO and CTO to scale the business, shape financial systems, and guide the company through multiple rounds of venture financing.
This is not a maintenance role. It’s a build-from-zero role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, wants meaningful ownership, and sees the opportunity to create a generational consumer product in the Future of Work category.
What You’ll Own
Strategic Finance
- Build and own long-range financial models (consumer + B2B revenue streams).
- Drive fundraising strategy: deck architecture, investor targeting, due diligence prep, and negotiation.
- Partner with the CEO to define pricing strategy, capital allocation, and growth levers across B2C and B2B.
Operational Excellence
- Develop scalable financial systems, processes, and reporting infrastructure.
- Implement metrics and dashboards across user growth, retention, LTV/CAC, and marketplace economics.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and cash management with precision.
Risk, Compliance & Controls
- Build a finance function aligned with venture-scale standards.
- Ensure compliance with tax, audit, legal, and SOC-related financial requirements.
- Implement controls to support enterprise partnerships and future international expansion.
Leadership
- Serve as a core thought partner to the founding team.
- Build and lead the finance organization as the company scales.
- Influence product, pricing, and market strategy through data-backed insight.
You’ll Thrive Here If You Are…
- A builder — you enjoy creating systems from scratch and scaling them.
- A strategic operator — you think in models and second-order effects.
- A fundraiser — you’re comfortable across investor dialogues, storytelling, and diligence.
- A consumer-minded leader — you understand marketplaces, engagement loops, subscriptions, and retention economics.
- Calm under pressure — you bring clarity in moments of uncertainty.
What You Bring
- 8–15+ years in finance, ideally with startup or scale-up experience (CFO, VP Finance, or equivalent).
- Deep experience with venture fundraising, board reporting, and investor relations.
- Strong command of SaaS and consumer economics; marketplace experience is a plus.
- Comfort working in lean teams and owning high-impact decisions.
- A belief that the hiring landscape is broken — and the ambition to fix it.
Why Join Passive
- Category creation: We’re the first platform engineered for the passive candidate — the largest and most overlooked segment in the job market.
- Massive market: A $67B opportunity across B2C + B2B with deep structural tailwinds.
- Backed by experienced founders: 30+ years across HR tech, ML, SaaS, recruiting, and big tech.
- Early equity and deep ownership: Shape the financial architecture of a company built to scale globally.
- Mission with momentum: A product that helps people quietly advance their careers — without burnout, friction, or compromise.
