[Hiring] VP of Finance @AirGarage

Role Description

As our first VP of Finance, you’ll be the hands-on builder who turns a solid foundation into a high-leverage finance function. You’ll serve as a thought partner to our founders and leadership team, not a scorekeeper. Your job is to shape decisions, not just model them after they're made. That means working directly with product, operations, sales, and engineering to sharpen how we plan, decide, and execute as we scale.

This is not a “present the dashboard once a month” role. You’ll own our forward-looking model, obsess every day over unit economics across hundreds of real-world locations, and work with our in-house accounting team to upgrade our systems from scrappy to scalable (think: QuickBooks → ERP). You’ll also take the wheel on cap table management, vendor negotiations, investor readiness, and the legal/G&A odds-and-ends that keep a growing company running and enable the rest of the leadership team to focus on building and selling our product to customers.

This job is for someone who’s done it before (”it” meaning: meaningfully owned finance at a rapidly scaling venture-backed company). You’ll be the cornerstone of our finance org and will shape the processes, systems, and culture that help AirGarage compound, turning messy reality into crisp signal so the rest of the company can move faster with confidence.

Qualifications

• Built-from-scratch experience: You’ve been the first or very early finance hire at a high-growth company and have personally implemented systems, closed the books, owned the model, and taken a company through its first audits.
• Hands-on operator: You’re comfortable toggling between 10,000-ft strategy and ground-level detail.
• Modeling + judgment: Strong command of driver-based modeling, scenario analysis, and cohort economics.
• Systems & process builder: Experience moving from QuickBooks to ERP.
• Story + numbers: Clear communicator who can translate complexity into crisp narratives.
• Commercial and vendor acumen: Comfortable reviewing terms and leading vendor renegotiations.
• People partnership: Experience supporting comp design, leveling, and workforce planning.
• Bias for action: You move fast, measure results, and improve the system every cycle.
• Order maker, not order taker: You notice the gap, build the model, and bring a recommendation.

Requirements

• Multi-location and or revenue-share or transactional business exposure.
• Hardware or inventory familiarity.
• Prior ownership of legal and G&A functions beyond “pure” finance.
• Experience preparing for and leading the company’s first audits.
• Bonus if you have finance experience at a company executing a roll-up or M&A-driven growth strategy.

Benefits

• Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.
• Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like within North America.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical, dental, and vision plans for the primary employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents.
• Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for success.
• Time to recharge: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.
• 401k: Make financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program.
• Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year our team comes together for a full week.
• BookGarage: Join us for our optional recurring book club.
• Room to grow: Opportunities to grow with us as our team expands.
• Transform our cities: Change the way that the world thinks about real estate use in our cities.
• Work with a diverse team: Our team is currently 40% female and 30%+ from underrepresented communities.