About WhiteMatter
WhiteMatter is the first agent-native company that secures and operationalizes the agentic enterprise across the entire agent lifecycle. Its platform governs agents, AI workflows, and generative AI use across endpoint, browser, SaaS, cloud, and code, with full traceability of every identity, action, and execution path. Make every agent matter.
About The Role
In this role, you will lead the executive cadence, build and maintain the corporate financial model for board-level strategy, and architect scalable internal infrastructure while overseeing a finance analyst from day one.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you will actively participate in all strategic decisions. This position will drive strategy, make critical calls, and deliver measurable outcomes. You will design and deploy foundational systems from scratch that scale long into the company's future.
This is a remote role and we are seeking candidates based in the San Francisco or Austin Metros.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
1. Drive the Operating Rhythm
- Lead annual and quarterly planning, establish goal-setting frameworks, and facilitate weekly and monthly business reviews to maintain organizational accountability.
- Develop executive scorecards and serve as the first line of detection when performance deviates from metrics.
2. Own Financial Modeling & Strategy
- Architect and maintain the financial operating model, overseeing forecasts, budgets, headcount strategies, and cash runway.
- Conduct monthly variance analyses against plan and partner with founders to construct board-level materials, ensuring alignment across reporting platforms.
3. Scale the Core Finance Function
- Directly manage the finance analyst, oversee third-party accounting partners, and manage month-end close, AP/AR, and corporate expenditure.
- Implement internal controls and operational schedules to ensure financial accuracy while laying the structural foundation for an eventual VP of Finance.
4. Provide Strategic Decision Support
- Deliver ad-hoc quantitative analyses for executive decisions, including pricing structures, unit economics, deal terms, compensation plans, and bonus pool mechanics.
- Collaborate closely with HR and People ops on all financially sensitive initiatives.
5. Optimize Internal Operations
- Streamline internal tooling, systems, vendor relationships, and cross-functional processes.
- Proactively identify and eliminate operational friction across Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and People teams.
6. Spearhead Unassigned Initiatives
- Scope, execute, and transition unowned, cross-functional projects and strategic pilot programs.
What We’re Looking For:
- At least 7 years of experience, beginning in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, or strategy consulting, followed by an in-house role at a Series A to Series D venture-backed company.
- Proven ownership—rather than mere contribution—of financial forecasts, operating models, or budgets, with the ability to explain and justify model assumptions.
- Demonstrated track record of directing an executive team's operating cadence, including planning, performance reviews, scorecards, and corrective action when targets are missed.
- Experience crafting decision-driven board presentations rather than purely informative slides.
- Proven leadership capability, either through direct management of at least one report or an established history of mentoring analysts and readiness to take on team management.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience at a fast growing cybersecurity or AI company
- Prior Chief of Staff, Head of Business Operations, or Director of Strategy and Operations title at a company under 200 people
- Prior experience managing a US–India team
- Experience with BI or dashboard tools used to track company KPIs
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity
- Direct impact on a company growing at an exceptional pace
- A front-row seat to building the operating system for CPG brands
WhiteMatter is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
Compensation Range: $200K - $280K (actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location)
