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Please read more about our culture herehttps://foundation.bot/culture.\nWho Should Join:\nYou like working in person with a team in San Francisco.\nYou deeply believe that this is the most important mission for humanity and needs to happen yesterday.\nYou are highly technical - regardless of the role you are in. We are building technology; you need to understand technology well.\nYou care about aesthetics and design inside out. If it's not the best product ever, it bothers you, and you need to “fix” it.\nYou don't need someone to motivate you; you get things done.\n The Role\nYou'll work directly for the SVP of Operations and Finance, who runs go-to-market, operations, and finance for the company. This is not a back-office seat. In a given week you might build the business case for a customer deployment, prep an investor data room, and run the payment cycle - because all of that runs through this office. You'll be trained on the parts you haven't done. The expectation is that you can move between them fast.\nWhy We Are Hiring for This Role:\nAs we scale robot production, purchase order volume across components, tooling, and vendors is growing faster than our finance team can keep up with manually.\nPayables and accounting operations: assisting with AP end to end in Bill.com, and managing our outside accounting and tax firms through month-end close, tax filings, and R&D credit work.\nPurchasing: issuing and tracking POs for components, tooling, and services, and keeping open-PO and commitment reporting current so engineering isn't waiting on paperwork.\nVendor administration: onboarding, terms, and the paperwork that keeps parts and services flowing.\nThe financial model, annual budget, and budget-vs-actuals reporting.\nFundraising: diligence requests, data rooms, and investor and board materials.\nAudit readiness, cap table and equity administration, and advisor and vendor agreements with outside counsel.\nCustomer deals: business cases and ROI models, pricing and deployment proposals, LOI and term sheet support, and the diligence packages customers ask for along the way.\nCustomer and investor travel: prep, materials, and follow-through for meetings and trips, domestic and international.\nWhat Kind of Person We Are Looking For:\nBachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (required).\n2-5 years of experience in finance, business operations, consulting, or a startup seat where you touched more than one function. Public accounting works too if you're ready to get out of it.\nComfortable with the mechanics: you can build a model, run a payment cycle, and read a contract, or learn any of them fast. 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Join us for the culture and the mission, not for the benefits.\nSalary\nThe annual compensation is expected to be between $75,000 - $100,000. 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