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.

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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.

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