Lead, Strategic Finance

Comfy is growing fast: 4 million users, a fast-scaling cloud business, and a fresh $30M raise. So far we've run finance out of spreadsheets, outsourced bookkeeping, and founder intuition. That's no longer enough.

As our Lead, Strategic Finance, you'll be the first finance hire and the person who builds the analytical backbone of the company. You'll own the financial model, the planning process, and the unit economics of a compute-heavy AI business — and you'll roll up your sleeves on the operational finance basics too.

This is a hands-on, builder's role. You won't inherit a model or a playbook — you'll build them from a blank page. You'll live in the data, turn it into decisions the founders actually use, and bring financial rigor to a team that has been moving on instinct. It's a rare chance to own finance end-to-end early, with a clear path to grow as the function (and your scope) scales beneath you.

Have 6+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, consulting, or a high-growth startup finance team — with real hands-on ownership, not just slide support.

Are an exceptional modeler who can build a clean three-statement model and a fast back-of-envelope answer with equal rigor.

Are data-fluent — comfortable getting your own answers (SQL or BI a strong plus) rather than waiting to be handed a dataset.

Understand usage-based / consumption business models and COGS-heavy economics (bonus: AI, infrastructure, or compute).

Are scrappy and self-directed — you've built things 0→1 and are happy owning both the strategy and the operational plumbing while the function is small.

Operate from first principles with high agency and low ego. You bias toward action, communicate proactively, and own outcomes end-to-end.

Are SF-based or willing to relocate to join our in-person rhythm near Alamo Square.

Experience at an open-source, developer-tools, or creator-tools company.

Been part of a fundraise as the person behind the model and the metrics.

Stood up an FP&A or strategic finance function from scratch.

Used Comfy or have real familiarity with AI creative tools.

Comfy (https://www.comfy.org) is the AI creation engine for visual professionals who demand control over every model, every parameter, and every output. The most powerful workflow engine for visual AI.

Unlike tools that hide everything behind a prompt box, Comfy lets you connect models, processing steps, and outputs on a canvas where every decision is visible and every step is inspectable. It gives you the building blocks to create workflows nobody's imagined yet, and share them with everyone.

What started as an open-source project in 2023 now has 4 million users, 60,000+ community-built nodes, and 150,000+ daily downloads. It's used by artists, filmmakers, game studios, designers, researchers, and VFX houses, including teams at OpenAI, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Ubisoft, EA, and Tencent.

We're a small, intense team in San Francisco. Our team comes from Stability AI and Google, and many contributed to the ComfyUI ecosystem long before working here. Low ego, high ownership. We work hard and demand a lot of each other, but we have fun. Everyone here is building something meaningful that will end up being our life's work.

If this mission excites you and you view yourself as top-tier talent, your future latent self is waiting for you at Comfy.

Check out our Github (https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) and blog (https://blog.comfy.org). We recently raised $30M at a $500M valuation. The round was led by Craft, with participation from Pace Capital, Chemistry, TruArrow, and others.