Head of Accounting
Vizcom · San Francisco, CA · 5 days ago
HybridAccounting$210k–$250k/yrContract
About the role
This is a rare build-from-scratch opportunity: own accounting at a fast-growing, AI-native company and shape it from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise billing and revenue recognition end-to-end.
- Turn quote-to-cash and ASC 606 revenue recognition into a clean, best-in-class motion that leadership and the board can trust.
- Own and accelerate the close.
- Streamline monthly and quarterly close with our outsourced firm, then bring core functions (GL, reconciliations, AR/AP, close) in-house on a schedule you set, toward a predictable sub-10-day (or better) cadence.
- Choose and implement our ERP.
- Within your first 6-9 months, evaluate legacy options (NetSuite) against AI-native platforms (Campfire, Rillet) against our real requirements, make the call, and then own the implementation, building the function AI-native from the start.
- Get us audit-ready, then lead the audit.
- Stand up GAAP policies and a right-sized controls framework, clean historical financials, and select and manage the auditor through Vizcom’s first external audit.
- Build the team and the org over time.
- As volume grows, define and hire the first accounting roles (GL Accountants, Revenue Accountants, and beyond) and develop the team (including AI Agents) you’ll eventually lead.
- Partner across the business.
- With the VP, Finance & Operations on reporting, board, and investor support.
- With GTM, Product, and Data on the systems that connect accounting to the company.
- And with external tax, compliance, and outsourced partners.
Requirements
- 8-12 years of progressive accounting experience, with meaningful time at a venture-backed SaaS/AI company.
- You’ve built or substantially leveled up an accounting function before.
- You’ve gone from outsourced or messy to structured and know what the journey actually looks like through $100M+ in revenue.
- Deep US GAAP expertise, with real ASC 606 revenue recognition experience for SaaS and enterprise contracts.
- You can write the policy and defend it to an auditor.
- You’ve done the work, not just reviewed it.
- You’re a team of one on day one.
- You’ve evaluated tools on requirements, not demos.
- You’ve integrated AI meaningfully into how you work, and you build new workflows AI-first.
- You can speak specifically to where it works, where it doesn’t, and how you’ve developed judgment about when to trust the output.
- You’re a doer today who wants to lead tomorrow.
- You’ve hired, mentored, or managed a team and are ready to build and lead a team as the function grows.
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity and have a bias toward action.
- You write the first version of the playbook rather than wait for one, and as a colleague, you enjoy planning, executing, winning, and celebrating as a team.
- You’ve been successful in environments where there wasn’t already a playbook.
Qualifications
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and comfortable working in our hybrid environment with regular time together in the office.
- Nice to have: CPA (active or inactive) and/or a Big 4 or national-firm foundation (2-4 years).
- Hands-on experience with the modern accounting stack (Campfire, Rillet, Ramp, Tabs, etc) or a fast, curious adopter.
- You’ve helped scale a company from Series B through $100M+ ARR.
- Experience with usage-based or consumption billing models.
- Exposure to multi-entity or international accounting, fundraising support, tax compliance, internal audit/IT controls, etc.
Benefits
- 100% employer-sponsored medical care for employees, 25% toward dependents
- Dental, vision, and mental health care
- Meaningful equity ownership in Vizcom
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) with payroll match
- Generous annual Learning & Development allowance
- Paid parental leave
- Weekly catered lunch at Headquarters
- Monthly fitness/gym membership stipend
Pay
$210,000-$250,000, depending on experience and scope, plus meaningful equity.
Schedule
Hybrid, with regular time together in the office.