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By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works-so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.\nMore than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for someone to join our Strategic Finance & Operations team and help build the financial and operating infrastructure for Lightfield’s next stage of growth.\nYou’ll work directly with our Head of Operations and closely with our CEO and leadership team across strategic finance, company planning, and business operations. You’ll help build the metrics, models, analyses, and processes we use to understand the business and make better operating decisions.\nThis is a great opportunity for someone with strong financial and analytical training who wants to move from analyzing businesses to helping build one.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild operating metrics and reporting. Develop and maintain the dashboards, KPIs, and reporting we use to understand performance across revenue, growth, customers, spend, and efficiency.\n\nSupport forecasting and planning. Help build and maintain financial models, forecasts, budgets, and headcount plans, and analyze performance against plan\n\nRun strategic analyses. Dig into company-level questions, bring together data from across the business, and turn analysis into clear insights that inform decisions\n\nImprove spend visibility. 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