Finance & Business Operations Associate

We like to be frank and honest about who we are, so that people can decide for themselves if this is a culture they resonate with. Please read more about our culture here https://foundation.bot/culture.

• You like working in person with a team in San Francisco.
• You deeply believe that this is the most important mission for humanity and needs to happen yesterday.
• You are highly technical - regardless of the role you are in. We are building technology; you need to understand technology well.
• You care about aesthetics and design inside out. If it's not the best product ever, it bothers you, and you need to “fix” it.
• You don't need someone to motivate you; you get things done.

You'll work directly for the SVP of Operations and Finance, who runs go-to-market, operations, and finance for the company. This is not a back-office seat. In a given week you might build the business case for a customer deployment, prep an investor data room, and run the payment cycle — because all of that runs through this office. You'll be trained on the parts you haven't done. The expectation is that you can move between them fast.

• As we scale robot production, purchase order volume across components, tooling, and vendors is growing faster than our finance team can keep up with manually.
• Payables and accounting operations: assisting with AP end to end in Bill.com, and managing our outside accounting and tax firms through month-end close, tax filings, and R&D credit work.
•  Purchasing: issuing and tracking POs for components, tooling, and services, and keeping open-PO and commitment reporting current so engineering isn't waiting on paperwork.
•  Vendor administration: onboarding, terms, and the paperwork that keeps parts and services flowing.
•  The financial model, annual budget, and budget-vs-actuals reporting.
•  Fundraising: diligence requests, data rooms, and investor and board materials.
• Audit readiness, cap table and equity administration, and advisor and vendor agreements with outside counsel.
• Customer deals: business cases and ROI models, pricing and deployment proposals, LOI and term sheet support, and the diligence packages customers ask for along the way.
• Customer and investor travel: prep, materials, and follow-through for meetings and trips, domestic and international.

•    Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (required).
• 2–5 years of experience in finance, business operations, consulting, or a startup seat where you touched more than one function. Public accounting works too if you're ready to get out of it.
•  Comfortable with the mechanics: you can build a model, run a payment cycle, and read a contract, or learn any of them fast. Bill.com, QuickBooks, or NetSuite experience is a plus.
• Strong in Excel or Google Sheets and a clear writer — you'll produce decks, memos, and customer-facing documents, not just spreadsheets.
•  Comfortable in front of customers, partners, investors, and executives, and able to represent this office when the SVP isn't in the room.
• Detail-oriented enough to run a high-volume payment cycle without dropping anything, while still moving fast on everything else.
• Trustworthy and discreet with customer, financial, and investor information.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup where processes are still being built, priorities shift weekly, and ownership matters more than titles.
• Curious about hardware and robotics — you want to understand what we build, buy, and sell, and why.
• Willing to travel occasionally for shows and customer meetings.

The annual compensation is expected to be between $75,000 - $100,000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.