Join Freehand as Chief of Staff to lead strategic finance and operations initiatives in a growing AI company.
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AI in the day-to-day
Freehand is building autonomous AI agents for enterprise spend management.
Requirements
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the Chief of Staff / Strategic Finance role at Freehand, the individual will manage high-impact strategic projects, including fundraising and revenue operations, while collaborating closely with the CEO and leadership team. Key skills include financial modeling and operational analysis, with a focus on identifying and resolving bottlenecks across various business pipelines. This position is ideal for candidates with a strong background in investment banking or private equity, coupled with experience in a BizOps or strategic finance role within tech companies. Freehand is in a growth phase, aiming to redefine enterprise AI solutions.
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About Freehand
Freehand (freehand.ai) is building autonomous AI agents for enterprise spend management, replacing internal and outsourced (BPO) headcount and shared service centres with "AI Employees" across procure-to-pay and order-to-cash workflows, selling to Global 2000 CFOs.
Freehand counts Apple, Meta, J&J, Pfizer, Cardinal Health, Dunkin', and Samsara among its customers. We're now scaling the team across GTM, product, and operations.
The Role
We're hiring two Founder's Office roles to take on the highest-leverage strategic projects across the company: fundraising, board and investor comms, org design, key customer expansions, revenue operations, cost optimization, and special initiatives that don't yet have an owner. You'll work directly with the CEO and leadership team, with end-to-end ownership of workstreams that shape how Freehand scales. This is a front-row seat to building a category-defining enterprise AI company in San Francisco.
How we think about the business
Freehand, like any business, runs on five pipelines: capital, talent, sales, implementations, and product. Each has its own throughput, conversion, and cycle time, and each both constrains and feeds the others, and the overall business. The Chief of Staff / Strategic Finance role is to make those interactions legible, financially, operationally, and visually, and to actively de-bottleneck them.
What you'll do
Build the top-down financial model of the business as the intersecting output of the five pipelines, and decompose it into functional models for sales, implementations, product, talent, and capital
Identify the dynamic binding constraint in each pipeline and at the company level; quantify the cost of each bottleneck and the ROI of unblocking it
Stand up dashboards for each pipeline and a consolidated business view, leading indicators, throughput, conversion, cycle time, unit economics
Partner with each function head to set weekly, monthly and quarterly goals tied to the model, and drive a prioritized list of debottlenecking initiatives across the company
Run weekly functional reviews and fortnightly business reviews alongside the CEO
Own strategic initiatives across customer expansion, pricing, org design, and cost optimization, and other high-leverage problems that don't yet have an owner
Run board meetings end-to-end: materials, narrative, follow-ups, investor materials, modeling, process management
Ideal background
CS undergrad from top tier college in India (IIT/NIT) or the US (Ivy League school); MBA from HBS, Wharton, or Stanford
At least 2-4 years in investment banking or private equity
At least 2-4 years in an operating role (BizOps / Strategic Finance) at a consumer tech or B2B software company
Founder or very early-stage startup experience is a strong plus
Proven track record of hands on financial modelling across GTM, product, tech and ops; comfortable moving between board-level strategy, management decision making and hands-on functional execution
Working at Freehand
We proudly offer the following Benefits to all our full-time employees:
Take what you need Vacation Policy
Monthly home-internet costs
Life Insurance and Disability benefits
HSA/FSA Access
401(k) with a 4% Employer Match
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