# R&D Strategic Finance Lead

About us Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web. We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission. Job: You will build and lead the Finance function for Parallel’s Research and Engineering (R&D) organization. Our product is deeply technical, so this team is the engine room of the company. You will own the model for our compute commitments. These are some of the highest-stakes decisions we make, and they call for structured planning over medium- and long-term horizons. You’ll track training, inference and infrastructure spend against commitments and product usage, and forecast where it’s headed as the product scales rapidly. You’ll partner directly with company leaders on headcount plans, budgets, and the tradeoffs between b

- **Id**: 3714026
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/parallel-rd-finance-lead>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T22:51:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T04:25:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3329
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, AI Development Tools, AI Search

## Company

- **Id**: 25200
- **Name**: Parallel
- **Domain**: parallel.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/parallel>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.556
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 61
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T00:16:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 31; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10; Filings 12m: 10

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 61
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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