Vice President, Finance

About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare cyber and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nations most pressing problems.

Seattle area or remote

The Role:

You will serve as a strategic finance leader and co-pilot to Trase leadership owning capital allocation GTM economics and the operating system required to scale Trase from early revenue to a repeatable scalable business.

This is not a back-office accounting role. Youll partner directly with leadership on the highest-leverage financial decisions facing the companywhere to invest how to price and how to build the financial infrastructure that supports rapid growth. Youll operate across two dimensions: an internal operating focus that keeps the company financially disciplined and decision-ready and an external GTM focus that connects finance to commercial strategy and market positioning.

What Youll Do:

Capital Allocation & Company Planning

• Manage runway scenario planning and cash visibility.
• Evaluate ROI across product GTM channels and customer segments to inform where Trase should double down vs. pull back.
• Translate strategic choices into financial tradeoffs and operating plans.

GTM Finance & AI Unit Economics

• Partner with GTM on sales capacity pipeline pricing and customer acquisition efficiency.
• Build ROI models that connect customer value to commercial strategy.
• Track AI-specific economics such as inference/compute costs gross margin and revenue per deployed workflow or agent.

Finance Operations Reporting & Systems

• Own the core finance operating cadence: budget forecast reporting accounting tax and compliance.
• Build clean reporting so that leadership has timely decision-ready financial visibility.
• Optimize the finance and GTM systems stack including Salesforce FP&A tools and reporting workflows.

Board Investor & RCP Communication

• Support board investor and Red Cell Partners reporting with clear financial narratives and metrics.
• Help prepare for future fundraising with models KPI reporting and performance storylines.
• Coordinate with existing owners on investor platform and studio-related workflows without duplicating efforts.

About You:

• 10 years of finance experience including strategic finance FP&A or operating roles at high-growth technology or SaaS companies.
• Proven track record partnering with executive leadership on capital allocation unit economics and company-level planning.
• Strong command of the finance operating cadence: budgeting forecasting reporting accounting tax and compliance.
• Hands-on with finance and GTM systems including Salesforce and modern FP&A tooling.
• Experience supporting board and investor reporting; fundraising preparation a strong plus.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in an early-stage fast-moving environmentable to move between strategic framing and hands-on execution.

What This Is Not:

• A pure accounting or controllership role
• A back-office function disconnected from commercial strategy
• A role that waits for direction rather than driving it

This is a true co-pilot rolebuilding the financial operating system that scales Trase from early revenue into a repeatable durable business.

Why Trase:

• Deployed platform real resultswere not selling a roadmap. Trase is in production with demonstrated outcomes.
• A defining market moment. Every enterprise is trying to operationalize AI at scaleyoull be shaping the economics of how that happens.
• True ownership. Youre building the financial infrastructure the models and the operating cadence. The people who join now define how this company operates for years.
• Backed by Red Cell Partners with a leadership team that has operated at scale including our President formerly VP of AI/ML at AWS.

Compensation:Competitive base salary plus bonus and equity. This represents the typical compensation structure for this position based on experience skills and other factors.

Our Red Cell Partners Benefits:

For full-time roles

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
• 100% employer paid comprehensive health care including medical dental and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K FSA and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
  
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available throughCrux.

Were an Equal Opportunity Employer: Youll receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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