Senior Accountant
About the role
Fragile is redefining how hardware is built, consumed, and distributed. We're a small, high-talent-density team based in San Francisco and New York. We work across disciplines, reason deeply, move with urgency, and build for the real world. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, and Benchmark, we partner with category-leading consumer hardware brands like Eight Sleep, Anker, and NZXT to create new ways for consumers to access hardware, giving people the flexibility to experience products on their own terms.
Responsibilities
- Drive core accounting operations.
- Own the general ledger, execute revenue recognition and other key accounting workflows, and ensure the data and supporting inputs underlying the company's financial statements are complete, accurate, and timely.
- Build and improve processes that scale.
- Help design and implement accounting infrastructure, workflows, and internal controls needed to support a rapidly scaling company operating across multiple merchant partnerships simultaneously.
- Bring strategic structure to a high-volume, operationally intense environment.
- Translate a dense array of financial activity, such as subscription billing, device procurement, and depreciation, into clean, auditable financials.
- Partner cross-functionally with legal, finance, engineering, and operations.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner across teams, ensuring purchase orders, transaction data, inventory activity, and other accounting inputs are accurately captured and reflected in the company's books and financial statements.
- Support audit readiness and compliance.
- Interface with external accounting and audit partners to support financial reviews, SOC compliance, and the reporting rigor expected as the company scales into its next stage.
- Contribute to the company's in-house ledger.
- Work closely with engineering to ensure the ledger accurately reflects our subscription and billing workflows, and surface insights that inform how we build financial infrastructure.
Requirements
3-5 years of accounting experience, with progressive responsibility and a clear upward trajectory
CPA required (or actively pursuing)
Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, with exposure to revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), or long-lived asset accounting (ASC 360)
A strategic thinker who thrives on complexity, connects the dots across the business, and doesn't wait to be told what to do next
Comfortable operating hands-on in an environment where you'll need to build the plane while flying it
Nice to Have: Experience at a high-growth startup or a Big 4/public accounting foundation, Early exposure to fintech, consumer leasing, e-commerce, or subscription-based businesses, Familiarity with external audit processes (e.g., SOC readiness, financial audits), Interest in eventually managing people and growing into a controllership or leadership role
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
Experience with QuickBooks or similar accounting software
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
Strong attention to detail and accuracy
Benefits
Free daily lunch, dinner, drinks, and snacks
Free Waymo rides to the office
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Relocation support to San Francisco
Pay
$125,000-$175,000 in base cash compensation, with the opportunity for equity
Schedule
This role is full-time and in person at our Mission SF headquarters.