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Accounting firms use Cranston today for tax preparation, bookkeeping, document collection, review, and client work.\nWe're a small team in San Francisco. Dozens of firms already use the product, and demand is growing quickly. We need someone who understands the work to make every new customer successful.\nAbout the role\nAs a Forward Deployed Accountant, you will own the customer journey from signed contract through confident daily use. The role combines implementation, training, accounting judgment, and product work.\nYou will sit with firm owners and their teams, learn how work moves through the firm, configure Cranston around that process, and train people to use it well. During tax season or month-end close, you will see where a workflow holds up and where it falls apart. You will fix the immediate problem with the customer, then work with our product and engineering team so the next firm has a better experience.\nThe work is hands-on. One day you might lead a kickoff for a 40-person CPA firm. The next, you could review a tax package, rebuild a training plan, record a short walkthrough, or work with an engineer on an edge case in tax software.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn onboarding for new accounting-firm customers, from discovery and configuration through launch and adoption.\n\nMap each firm's tax, bookkeeping, document, review, and client-service workflows in enough detail to make Cranston useful in real work.\n\nLead live training for partners, managers, preparers, bookkeepers, and administrative staff.\n\nSet clear rollout plans, define success measures, and keep customers moving when schedules get busy.\n\nWork inside the product with customers. Diagnose issues, find practical workarounds, and stay on the problem until the workflow is reliable.\n\nTurn repeatable lessons into implementation playbooks, training materials, product changes, and better defaults.\n\nRepresent the accounting user's point of view in product decisions. Be specific about what firms need, what creates risk, and what saves time.\n\nBuild trusted relationships that lead to deeper adoption, renewals, referrals, and expansion.\n\nTravel to customer offices and accounting-industry events when being in the room will make the work better.\n\nYour first 90 days\nLearn Cranston deeply enough to run a customer workflow yourself, from source documents through review and delivery.\n\nShadow current onboarding work, then take ownership of new firm launches.\n\nBuild a practical training program for the roles that use Cranston day to day.\n\nCreate a clear feedback loop between customers and the product team, with examples that engineers can reproduce.\n\nHelp several firms reach confident, repeatable use of Cranston in live client work.\n\nWho we're looking for\nYou have 3+ years in public accounting, firm operations, client accounting services, tax, audit, or a closely related role.\n\nYou understand how accounting firms operate and can speak credibly with a partner, a preparer, and an operations lead.\n\nYou can teach. You explain a new workflow plainly, notice when someone is lost, and adjust without making them feel behind.\n\nYou are comfortable getting into the details of a return, close, reconciliation, document request, or review process.\n\nYou keep projects moving. Customers trust your follow-through, and teammates know you will surface a problem early.\n\nYou like working with software and can learn unfamiliar systems quickly. 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