Engagement Lead, Future Platforms (Accounting) | Housing

At EliseAI, we're improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare, yet both are often harder to secure than they should be.

By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows, we make them more efficient, reduce costs, and improve the experience for everyone.

The Future Platforms team is responsible for executing on the next generation of AI products and business lines. This team will blend go-to-market, product, operations, and strategy with a mandate to push the frontier of AI and own everything required to take them from idea to market leadership.

Our goal is to take Elise from agentic AI to truly end-to-end autonomous operations, fundamentally transforming how housing operators run their businesses and how residents experience their homes.

Future Platforms will operate as a startup within a startup, run like a Seed or Series A company but with the capital, resources, and market access of a well-funded Series E, deep C-suite involvement (CEO, CRO, CSO, CTO) and founder-level ownership from day one.

As an Engagement Lead on the Future Platforms team, you will help found and scale a critical function at EliseAI: delivering our accounting platform from initial deployment through full operational adoption.

You will own the accounting layer of complex engagements, serving as the primary driver of successful implementations across multiple clients at once. This means working directly with Controllers, CFOs, and accounting teams to scope workflows, configure systems, drive key decisions, and ensure a clean transition into live operations.

This is a highly cross-functional, execution-heavy role at the intersection of accounting, product, and customer success. Because the platform is early and evolving quickly, you won’t just execute implementations—you’ll help define how they’re done, building scalable systems and playbooks from the ground up.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong accounting intuition with a builder mindset, and wants to operate like a founder in a fast-scaling environment.

• Drive the accounting portion of multiple concurrent engagements, from late-stage sales handoff through post-launch stabilization

• Roll off accounts once they are fully live and operating successfully on the platform

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and operational readiness across all accounting workflows

• Partner with senior accounting stakeholders (Controllers, CFOs, Finance teams) to understand current-state workflows and define future-state processes

• Drive critical implementation decisions, such as:

  • Bank account onboarding strategy

  • Vendor onboarding and payment workflows

  • Chart of accounts structure and usage

  • Transaction and charge code design

• Translate ambiguous accounting needs into clear system configurations and requirements

• Lead hands-on accounting setup, including:

  • Chart of accounts (COA) configuration

  • Vendor and entity setup

  • Mapping of transactions and workflows

• Manage detailed back-and-forth with clients to gather, validate, and refine data inputs

• Ensure integrity and correctness of client-provided materials (e.g., validating GL structures, identifying inconsistencies, resolving gaps)

• Ensure full readiness for data migration and system cutover

• Lead post-launch activities, including:

  • Reconciliations and validation of financial data

  • Stabilization of accounting workflows in the new system

  • Kickstarting close processes and operational rhythms

• Act as the primary owner of a clean, accurate transition into the platform

• Run trainings, walkthroughs, and tailored demos for accounting teams

• Ensure end users are confident operating within the new system

• Identify and resolve adoption blockers early

• Turn implementation learnings into repeatable processes, templates, and best practices

• Partner with Product and Engineering to surface gaps and improve accounting workflows

• Help define what “great” looks like for accounting implementations at scale

We’re scaling fast, solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here, you own your impact; full autonomy, no micromanagement, no fluff.

We hire the best, expect the best, and give you the masterclass of your career. It’s hard, it’s intense, and it’s the most rewarding work you’ll ever do. If you’re hungry, driven, and ready to build something massive, climb aboard.

We’re looking for someone who blends accounting expertise with strong execution and ownership:

• 5–8 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, product management, and/or founder/operator roles at high-growth startups

• Background in accounting or finance (e.g., former Controller, Senior Accountant, accounting consultant, or accounting-focused operator), ideally in a high-growth or tech-enabled environment

• Experience managing complex, client-facing implementations or projects

• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals (GL, reconciliations, close process, workflows)

• Comfortable getting into the weeds with data, configurations, and systems

• Excellent communicator who can build trust with senior finance stakeholders

• Highly organized and able to manage multiple concurrent engagements under tight timelines

• Autonomous, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity

• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week