Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

About the role

The Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting will help prepare the company for its first external audit and, ultimately, for public markets. You'll report directly to the Chief Accounting Officer and work alongside a small, scrappy finance team — owning the technical accounting and financial reporting work that takes a private company from where we are today to audit-ready and IPO-ready.

What You'll Do

• Own technical accounting across the topics that will define our audit and S-1, including revenue recognition (ASC 606), stock-based compensation and equity transactions (ASC 718), capitalized software (internal-use and software to be sold), leases (ASC 842), business combinations (ASC 805), and complex financing instruments.
• Own GAAP financial statement preparation and footnote disclosures from the ground up, including MD&A and the disclosures required for registration.
• Quarterback the external audit — build the policy library, stand up the PBC process, and serve as the primary technical point of contact for auditors.
• Defend positions independently. Scope and manage external technical accounting advisors — direct their work, decide when to bring them in versus execute in-house, and hold them to our standards.
• Own the relationship with valuation specialists on 409As, purchase price allocations, and intangible asset valuations.
• Partner with tax advisors on international transfer pricing and intercompany accounting.
• Lay the foundation for SEC reporting (S-1, 10-K, 10-Q) and SOX readiness — design the workflows, controls, and calendars that will support public-company operations.
• Develop and document accounting policies that are clear, defensible, and scalable.
• Leverage AI aggressively — for research, memo drafting, tie-outs, disclosure benchmarking, and workflow automation — and build your own tooling where it helps.
• Build the team as we scale.

What You'll Need

• Active CPA, with a strong Big 4 or national firm foundation. 8+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting and/or financial reporting, with deep fluency in US GAAP.
• Hands-on technical range across revenue (606), equity comp (718), leases (842), and business combinations (805) — you can take on a gnarly issue and come back with a defensible memo you drafted yourself.
• Experience preparing GAAP financial statements and footnotes from scratch, not just reviewing them.
• Experience managing external auditors and external accounting consultants — you know how to scope, direct, and push back.
• A builder's instinct — comfort with ambiguity, no waiting for playbooks, strong bias to ship.
• A demonstrated AI-native working style — you use LLMs daily for drafting, research, and analysis, and can talk concretely about what these tools do well and where they fall short for accountants.
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can translate technical accounting for non-accountants without losing precision.
• Comfort vibe-coding small scripts or automations (Python, SQL, etc.) to accelerate your own work.
• High integrity, high ownership, low ego.

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Prior experience preparing a company for its first external audit.
• Prior experience taking a company public (S-1, IPO readiness, first 10-K).
• Capitalized software accounting experience in a SaaS or AI business.
• Experience coordinating with valuation specialists on 409As, PPAs, or intangible asset valuations.
• Exposure to international transfer pricing or intercompany accounting.
• Working knowledge of Workiva, NetSuite, FloQast, or similar tools — and strong opinions about them.