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Founding Head of Finance

Broccoli AI


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 220000 - 270000
Posted: 15 September 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline: 13 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Broccoli AI

At Broccoli were building AI teammates for the people who build and maintain our world.

We partner with plumbing HVAC and electrical contractors the hardworking businesses that keep homes and communities running and replace fragmented software and repetitive manual work with AI that actually gets the job done.

Our AI teammates answer phones book appointments follow up with customers recover missed revenue and help contractors deliver exceptional customer experiences all while integrating seamlessly with platforms like ServiceTitan.

Before we wrote a single line of code we visited more than 140 contractors to understand how these businesses truly operate. That firsthand experience shaped everything weve built.

Today:

  • Hundreds of contractors rely on Broccoli every day.

  • Weve grown to $15M ARR in under two years.

  • Were trusted by everyone from independent contractors to some of the largest private equity backed operators in the home services industry.

  • Were backed by Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator.

Were still just getting started.

The role

As Head of Finance you will own strategic finance at the company and help build the finance function from the ground up. Youll be a key partner to the executive team on planning forecasting resource allocation and company performance. Youll also support fundraising by owning the model metrics and materials that help us tell the story of the business clearly and credibly.

This is a highly hands-on role. Were looking for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical level: someone who can help shape the companys direction while also building the models processes and operating cadence that finance runs on.

What youll own

The operating plan. Own the quarterly and annual operating plan end to end. Build the financial model and unit-economics framework it runs on spanning revenue headcount spend and product lines. Set targets and budgets with each functions leader and drive the resource allocation and investment decisions the plan commits the company to. This is where company strategy becomes a number each team owns.

Metrics and accountability. Once the plan is set own performance against it. Define the financial and operational KPIs build the dashboards and monitor the metrics and cash flow that matter surfacing the levers to accelerate growth and efficiency. Run the business reviews where variance against plan turns into decisions and deliver the reporting and insight leadership acts on.

Strategic finance and fundraising. Own board materials and the model metrics and data room behind our raises: ARR net dollar retention gross margin by product line CAC payback P&L against plan. Own capital strategy and serve as a key partner on future fundraising processes.

The team. You are our first finance hire. Build a scalable finance function for our hypergrowth: decide what it needs (additional accounting or finance hires for example) and build it. The org the roles and the calls are yours.

AI-native financial operations. Build finance to run on automation and clean data and put AI to work doing the work rather than just reporting on it. We are an AI company and finance should operate like one.

What youll bring
  • 8 years of finance experience including:

    • 6 years in strategic finance corporate finance or FP&A at high-growth technology companies ideally having scaled through Series B to Series D and beyond. Bonus if you have owned all of finance at a startup.

    • 2 years in investment banking private equity or venture capital at a top-tier firm.

  • You have run the finance side of a growth-stage raise building the model and data room and managing diligence and you know what growth-stage investors demand.

  • Deep SaaS and ARR fluency: you can build an ARR bridge decompose NRR model cohort retention and speak unit economics (CAC payback LTV:CAC Rule of 40) as a working language.

  • Expert financial modeling in Excel: you build from scratch stress-test assumptions and translate outputs into clear business narratives. SQL or BI tools a plus.

  • Sharp analytical instincts and clear communication: you distill complexity into structured frameworks and recommendations and bring along leaders who dont report to you.

  • Comfort owning financial integrity and revenue recognition in the interim with the judgment to hire the right person to take it off your plate.

  • A self-directed builder who designs process where none exists and holds a high bar without being managed to it.


Required Experience:

Director


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