Finance Manager

About Goodfire

Behind our name: Like fire, AI holds the potential for both immense benefit and significant risk. Just as mastering fire transformed human history, we believe the safe and intentional development of AI will shape the future of our species. Our goal is to tame this new fire.

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company focused on understanding and designing AI systems that people can trust. Our mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI to build safe and powerful AI systems. We believe that deep research breakthroughs are necessary to make this possible.

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We’ve raised $59M from investors like Menlo, Lightspeed and Anthropic and work with customers including Arc Institute, Mayo Clinic, and Rakuten.

About the role

We are seeking a Finance Manager to own day-to-day financial operations at Goodfire as we experience a period of rapid growth. You will be responsible for supporting monthly and quarterly reporting, owning our financial models, and building the infrastructure to scale our finance function. The role spans the full spectrum from heads-down operational work to assisting with fundraising and capital allocation decisions. You’ll need to be able to work hard and move fast.

Key responsibilities

• Financial planning and analysis - own and maintain our financial models, support budgeting and forecasting, and provide strategic analysis to inform decisions.
• Payments and AP/AR - own all payments processing, vendor management, invoicing, and collections.
• Reporting and metrics - build dashboards and reporting infrastructure to provide leadership with visibility into financial performance.

Who you are

• A finance operator with real expertise who has done the grind before and is ready to do it again at an early-stage company.
• Experience managing payments, AP/AR, and monthly close processes. Fluent with financial systems and tools (Quickbooks, Excel).
• High agency and low ego. Willing to go deep on topics outside your core competency and learn quickly.

What you’ll bring

Required experience

• 4-6+ years of experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, or financial operations - ideally at a startup or high-growth environment.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals (CPA or accounting background a plus, but not required if you’ve developed equivalent expertise)
• Technical competency. You should be comfortable engaging with engineering and infrastructure concepts, including compute cost dynamics

Our values

Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.

Put mission and team first

All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.

Improve constantly

We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.

Take ownership and initiative

There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.

Action today

We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.

What we offer

This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $175,000 - $300,000 USD

Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.