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title: 'Business Operations Manager at Campfire'
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# Business Operations Manager at Campfire

- **Company:** Campfire
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/5769253a-702d-4ee8-a3dc-8c87e3568c19

## Job description

## About Campfire

Campfire is building modern accounting software for startups and mid-size tech companies, and we're going head to head with giants like NetSuite to do it. Our AI-native general ledger runs the close, revenue recognition, and reporting for finance teams that have outgrown QuickBooks and refuse to settle for a legacy ERP.

## The role

You'll own the business behind the business. You'll be the person leadership sends in on Campfire's highest-stakes problems, including ones nobody here has solved before. You'll get problems, not tasks, and you'll be expected to take them from "this is a mess" to "this runs itself." You'll work directly with every team at Campfire, and you'll have the authority to make decisions.

## What you'll own

- The operating rhythm. Help build and run the planning, goal-setting, and metrics cadence the company runs on. Make sure every team knows the number they own and whether they're hitting it.
- The numbers leadership trusts. Set the definitions for every core metric, then own the reporting for ARR, pipeline, bookings, retention, and spend. When the founders or the board ask a question, you have the answer, pulled straight from the raw data yourself.
- Commercial contracts and vendors. Run vendor negotiations and renewals, manage the contract lifecycle with legal, and make sure we never auto-renew something we don't need.
- Sales and GTM operations. Own CRM configuration, territory and quota planning, and the mechanics of how reps get paid. Make the sales team faster without letting the data get messy.
- The company's infrastructure. Insurance, office and real estate, compliance, and the systems that keep a growing company running. Nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
- Special projects that matter. New market launches, partnerships, monetization and packaging work alongside our pricing lead, board prep. You'll take new initiatives from zero to one. When something important doesn't have an owner yet, it lands with you.
- Automation over headcount. If a process runs on spreadsheets and goodwill, rebuild it with code, AI, and the right tools so it scales without adding people.

## Who you are

We care more about trajectory than pedigree. If you've owned hard problems end to end and have the results to show for it, we want to hear from you.

- An owner, not a coordinator. 2-4 years in business operations, top-tier consulting, banking, VC or PE, or founding a startup. You've been the person things roll up to.
- Analytical to the core. You're excellent in spreadsheets and you build models that hold up to scrutiny - you can tell the story behind the numbers.
- AI-native in how you work. You already use tools like Claude Code to automate work, build internal tools, and get more done than a team twice your size.
- Commercially sharp. You can read a contract, spot the bad clause, and negotiate a better deal with a vendor.
- A clear communicator. You can walk leadership or the board through a messy problem and leave them with a decision, and you're just as effective working alongside an AE or a support rep.
- Relentless follow-through. You close loops. When you say something will get done, it gets done, and people stop checking.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. Half of this job doesn't exist yet. You'll define it.

## Why this role

- Direct line to leadership. You work with leadership on decisions that move the business.
- Breadth you won't find elsewhere. Finance, sales, legal, and operations all cross your desk. It's a launchpad into leadership and the fastest path to running a business yourself.

## About Campfire

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets.

## Products & Services
- **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync.
- **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.).
- **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation.
- **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction.
- **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more.
- **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls.

All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees
  - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%)
  - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360
  - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on.
- **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance.
- **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves.
- **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features.
- **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies.
- **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City.
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.”
- **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers.

## Sources
1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/)
2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers)
3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire)
4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire)
5. [LinkedIn – Campfire Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetcampfire)

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