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# Business Manager at LiteLLM

- **Company:** LiteLLM
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $80k–$120k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/6305d80f-5810-4b4f-80f9-9475c5840c55

## Job description

Business Manager

## About the role

We’re looking for a Business Manager to own the operational backbone of LiteLLM. You’ll make sure our finances are accurate, our people are supported, and important administrative, legal, and operational work gets handled with urgency. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes pride in knowing where every dollar went, notices when something is wrong, and follows through until it is fixed. Finance and bookkeeping will be the foundation of the role, with additional ownership across people operations, office management, recruiting coordination, and executive operations. You do not need to be a CFO, CPA, lawyer, or HR executive. You do need to understand what you know, recognize what you don’t, and exercise good judgment about when to bring in an expert. You’ll work with external accountants, legal counsel, and other specialists, but you will remain accountable for the quality and completion of the work.

## What you’ll own

Finance and accounting operations

- Maintain accurate books and ensure every transaction is properly categorized and reconciled
- Manage accounts payable, reimbursements, payroll coordination, invoicing, and financial records
- Know where the company’s money is going and quickly investigate discrepancies
- Maintain our financial model with support from fractional finance experts when needed
- Coordinate with our outsourced accounting firm, CPA, and tax advisors
- Prepare reliable financial information for the founders and help them understand cash, spend, and tradeoffs
- Build lightweight controls and processes that keep the company compliant without slowing it down

People operations

- Own day-to-day HR administration, including onboarding, offboarding, payroll, benefits, and employee records
- Operate systems such as Rippling, Gusto, or similar platforms
- Make sure employees receive timely, thoughtful support when they have questions or problems
- Coordinate with external experts on compensation, compliance, and employment matters
- Help introduce more structured people programs as the company grows

Legal and business operations

- Coordinate contracts, insurance, registrations, compliance deadlines, and other corporate administration
- Develop sound judgment about what can be handled internally and what should be routed to legal counsel
- Work effectively with lawyers while managing cost and avoiding unnecessary risk
- Maintain organized records and ensure important deadlines and commitments do not get missed
- Approach AI-generated legal or financial guidance cautiously and verify important decisions with qualified experts

Office and executive operations

- Help manage the office and create an environment where the team can do its best work
- Support the founders with high-priority administrative and operational projects
- Coordinate vendors, events, scheduling, travel, and other company needs
- Help with recruiting coordination and candidate experience when needed
- Identify operational gaps and take ownership without waiting for detailed instructions

## What we’re looking for

- Experience in finance, accounting, bookkeeping, or business operations, ideally followed by work at an early-stage technology company
- Hands-on experience with payroll and HR administration
- Experience with at least one accounting system, such as QuickBooks, Xero, or NetSuite
- Experience with a people platform such as Rippling, Gusto, or Workday
- Exceptional attention to detail—you are the kind of person who will investigate a $5 discrepancy
- A strong sense of urgency and a low tolerance for important tasks being dropped
- Good judgment about when to solve something yourself and when to involve a CPA, lawyer, or other specialist
- A genuine desire to support people and make the company work better for them
- Curiosity and the ability to learn unfamiliar areas quickly
- Strong prioritization skills: you ask how important a problem is, what it will cost, and what tradeoffs the company is willing to make
- Comfort working across finance, HR, legal coordination, office management, and executive operations

You may be a particularly good fit if

- You began your career in finance or accounting and later moved into broader startup operations
- You are currently an exceptional executive assistant, finance manager, or operations lead who has naturally become the person everyone relies on
- You care about both the numbers and the people behind them
- You enjoy being the “squeaky wheel” who makes sure work actually gets completed
- You want broad ownership inside a young company and are willing to stay close to the details

What success looks like

- Our books are accurate, current, and explainable
- Leadership has a reliable view of cash, spending, and financial tradeoffs
- Payroll, benefits, invoices, and compliance deadlines are handled correctly and on time
- Employees know where to go for operational help and trust that their questions will be resolved
- External accountants, lawyers, and consultants are used thoughtfully, while ownership remains internal
- Important work does not fall through the cracks

## About LiteLLM

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LiteLLM provides an open-source AI gateway and Python SDK that unifies access to 100+ large language models (LLMs) with built-in cost tracking, guardrails, and load balancing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator W23)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Krrish Dholakia (CEO) and Ishaan Jaffer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / LLM operations (LLMOps)
- **Target customers**: Platform engineering teams, ML platform teams, and developers building LLM-powered applications (B2B, mid-market to enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: To simplify model access, spend tracking, and fallbacks across 100+ LLMs, enabling organizations to manage and scale their entire AI program from a single governed platform.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Gateway (Proxy Server)](https://www.litellm.ai/)**: A centralized service that provides an OpenAI-compatible API, virtual keys, spend tracking, rate limiting, guardrails, load balancing, and an admin dashboard. Deployable on-premises or via Terraform modules on AWS/GCP.
- **[Python SDK](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)**: A lightweight library for direct integration, supporting Router with retry/fallback logic, application-level cost tracking, and observability callbacks (Langfuse, MLflow, etc.).
- **[MCP Gateway](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)**: Connect MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to any LLM through the gateway.
- **[A2A Agent Gateway](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)**: Invoke A2A (Agent-to-Agent) agents from supported providers such as LangGraph, Vertex AI Agent Engine, and Azure AI Foundry.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$625,000** across multiple seed rounds (last round June 2023); Annual revenue reported as **$1.6M** [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/litellm)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (backed, batch W23), with additional undisclosed seed investors [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 52,568 GitHub stars, 9,450 forks, 1,005+ contributors [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)
  - 240M+ Docker pulls, 1B+ requests served, 80% uptime (claimed on homepage)
  - 14 employees with **27.3% monthly headcount growth** [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/litellm)
  - Used by companies such as **Netflix, Adobe, Twilio, Siemens, Rocket Money** [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified API**: Single interface for 100+ LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure, etc.) using the OpenAI format – drop-in replacement for existing OpenAI code.
- **Production-ready gateway**: Out-of-the-box virtual keys, spend tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and admin dashboard.
- **Performance**: 8ms P95 latency at 1k requests per second (benchmarked) [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)
- **Open source + enterprise**: Self-hosted, air-gapped, and air-gapped deployment options; commercial license for advanced features (SSO, audit logs, custom SLAs).
- **Active community**: 1,387 releases, frequent updates, strong contributor ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Rust migration**: LiteLLM is actively migrating core components to Rust for improved performance and reliability [litellm.ai](https://www.litellm.ai/).
- **Enterprise expansion**: Building out enterprise features (JWT auth, SSO, audit logs, custom SLAs) and dedicated support for large organizations [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm).
- **Agent and MCP support**: Extending the gateway to support A2A agents and MCP servers, positioning LiteLLM as a hub for multi-model, multi-agent workflows.

## Why Work Here
- **Stage & impact**: Early-stage YC startup with high growth (10–14 people, rapidly expanding). Work directly with founders and shape the product from the ground up [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs).
- **Engineering culture**: Open-source first, with strong emphasis on code quality (Black, Ruff, MyPy, circular import checks). Contributors are active and valued [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm).
- **Remote & hybrid options**: Some roles are San Francisco–based (office at 1730 Jones St), others offer remote within the US or Mexico. Equity packages range from 0.05% to 3% depending on role [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs).
- **Compensation**: Salary ranges vary by role (e.g., Founding Reliability Engineer: $200K–$270K + 0.25%–0.75% equity; Backend Engineer: $150K–$200K + 0.25%–0.75% equity; interns $80K–$100K) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs).
- **Team composition**: 36% technical, 21% sales, 14% general management – small, cross-functional team with founders actively coding.

## Sources
1. [litellm.ai](https://www.litellm.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/litellm)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs)
4. [github.com](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm) (careers page, but no additional detail beyond job listings)

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