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# Controller at Vessel Technologies

- **Company:** Vessel Technologies
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $190k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel/57774589-e01b-4e87-b415-0dd56484ce62

## Job description

Help us build a company that changes how the world builds. At Vessel, we believe the future isn't about building better. It's about better buildings. For generations, nearly every product in our lives has benefited from extraordinary advances in design, engineering, and manufacturing. Cars. Computers. Phones. Each generation gets better, more capable, and more affordable. But buildings have been left behind. Vessel is changing that. We're a New York City–based technology company reimagining the building as the ultimate consumer product. By bringing together advanced design, engineering, and manufacturing, we're creating buildings that are dramatically more efficient to produce, remarkably simple to operate, and extraordinary to experience. Our first product, Calypso, is an entirely new kind of apartment building, designed to help overcome the housing crisis and make extraordinary homes attainable for working people. Backed by institutional investors including Lennar, we're building something we believe can fundamentally transform one of the world's largest industries. And we're looking for exceptional people who want to help make it happen.

The opportunity

We're looking for an exceptional Controller to build and lead the accounting function of a technology company reinventing one of the world's oldest industries.

We design products. We manufacture them. We deploy them on construction sites. And we're developing the systems to do all of this at national scale.

That creates an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to do more than manage an accounting department.

You'll help design the financial infrastructure of the company itself.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll lead a small team, establish the policies and systems that support our growth, and ensure that our financial reporting meets the standards expected by sophisticated investors, lenders, and auditors.

This is a hands-on leadership role with substantial autonomy, visibility, and responsibility.

## Who you are

- A builder. You love creating systems, establishing processes, and making organizations work better. You're energized by the opportunity to build something rather than inherit it.
- An exceptional accountant. You have a deep command of GAAP, financial reporting, internal controls, and the disciplines required to maintain accurate books.
- Fluent in manufacturing economics. You understand inventory, work in process, standard costing, and the financial mechanics of manufacturing operations.
- Comfortable with complexity. Multiple entities, intercompany transactions, project accounting, and evolving business models don't intimidate you.
- Technologically ambitious. You're an enthusiastic adopter of new technologies, including AI, and constantly look for ways to make financial processes smarter, faster, and more reliable.
- A hands-on leader. You're equally comfortable developing a team, designing a reporting system, and personally resolving a difficult reconciliation.
- Intellectually curious. You ask why things work the way they do and aren't afraid to challenge conventional practices.
- Entrepreneurial. You understand that in a rapidly growing company, the right answer isn't always in a manual. Sometimes you have to invent it.

You should be a CPA with substantial progressive accounting experience, including manufacturing cost accounting, audit preparation, ERP systems, and managing a small team. Experience with NetSuite, multi-entity accounting, and consolidations is particularly valuable.

Above all, we're looking for exceptional intellect, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the determination to build something extraordinary.

## What you'll do

- Build and lead Vessel's accounting organization, beginning with an existing team of two.
- Establish the accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls that will support our growth.
- Own the monthly close and deliver accurate, timely financial statements across our corporate and project entities.
- Develop and maintain robust inventory, work-in-process, manufacturing cost, and project accounting systems.
- Establish the reporting and analytical tools that help management understand the economics of our products and operations.
- Lead audit preparation and support reporting and diligence requirements for lenders and investors.
- Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliations, and cash reporting.
- Work directly with the CEO and other leaders to provide financial insight into important operating decisions.
- Help select, implement, and continuously improve the technologies that power our financial operations.
- Build the team, systems, and financial disciplines required to support a business operating at national scale.

We're not looking for someone who simply wants the next step in a conventional accounting career. We're looking for someone who wants to help build a consequential company. At Vessel, you'll work directly with the founder, have genuine authority to shape your function, and participate in the ownership of the business you're helping create. Compensation includes a $190,000–$200,000 base salary, annual performance bonus, and a meaningful equity grant. Our mission is simple: to overcome the housing crisis and offer each person the opportunity for an extraordinary life. We believe accomplishing that mission requires people with exceptional curiosity, imagination, intellect, and tenacity. If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you. Vessel Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Vessel Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vessel Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes revolutionary multifamily apartment buildings engineered to lower construction costs, reduce risk, and deliver sustainable, technology-enhanced homes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/VC-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Neil Rubler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Real Estate, Construction Technology (PropTech/ConTech), Multifamily Housing
- **Target customers**: B2B – Landowners, developers, and operators who want to build multifamily housing (market rate, workforce, student, senior, and affordable/income-restricted). Also serves municipalities and community partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To offer each person an equal opportunity for an extraordinary life by providing access to homes that are exciting, sustainable, and attainably priced.” (vesseltechnologies.com)

## Products & Services
- **[Calypso]**: A midrise multifamily building system using a panelized, factory-manufactured system that ships flat and is assembled on site. Includes structural system (steel), interior/exterior walls, cabinetry, full interior fit-out, elevators, stairwells, sprinklers, lighting, and building-control systems (Vessel Intelligence). Delivered as a complete, ready-to-occupy building. Features nine-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, in-unit washer/dryers, and is 100% electric and solar-compatible. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total units – has completed 2 buildings (36 units) in the Northeast, has 4 buildings (278 units) under construction, and a pipeline of ~1,600 units predominantly in the Northeast and Florida. Oldest building has been operating for over three years with strong resident retention and renewal rates. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Built In notes the company offers equity and performance bonuses, suggesting VC or institutional backing.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding from initial Northeast projects into Florida; factory-manufactured panel system enables rapid build (6 months per building); targeting sites as small as 0.5 acres that are uneconomical for conventional development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Factory-built panel system** reduces construction time to ~6 months, eliminates change orders, and provides fixed per-unit pricing ($140,000–$155,000 per unit) – a significant moat against traditional construction with its delays and cost overruns.
- **Universal Design (“Yoga”)** philosophy ensures spaces work for people of all ages, sizes, and abilities (from children to seniors to wheelchair users).
- **Sustainability edge**: 100% electric, solar-compatible, triple-glazed windows, R-21 insulation, designed for net-zero operations; Energy Star compliant. Older building has performed well for 3+ years.
- **Vessel Intelligence**: Integrated smart building controls (HVAC, lighting, sound) with APIs for operator security systems, providing differentiation in resident experience.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities are scaling production through factory manufacturing and expanding geographic footprint (Northeast and Florida markets). Targeting smaller, infill sites (as small as 0.5 acres) that traditional developers avoid.
- Focus on entitlement partnerships with landowners and communities, offering feasibility studies and fixed-price contracts to de-risk development.
- Emphasizing sustainability and energy efficiency as core product features, aligning with regulatory trends toward electrification and net-zero buildings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture** with a clear social impact goal: addressing the housing crisis for over 50 million American families.
- **Hybrid workspace** – headquarters in New York, NY, with on-site work in Connecticut as well (Trade Partner Operations Manager role is on-site in CT). (builtin.com)
- **Compensation & equity**: Offers company equity, performance bonuses, 401(K), and disability insurance. (builtin.com)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Has a dedicated diversity and inclusion staff and a documented equal pay policy. (builtin.com)
- **Perks**: Health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), technology-forward work environment.
- **Culture described as**: “We hustle hard, innovate boldly, and settle for nothing less than extraordinary… We're looking for visionaries who are relentless in their craft, hungry to build what’s next.” (vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Working on a physical product that combines construction, manufacturing, systems engineering, and smart building technology – ideal for those who want to build tangible, impactful infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Vessel Technologies – About](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/)
2. [Vessel Technologies – FAQ](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
3. [Vessel Technologies – Careers](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
4. [Vessel Technologies – Lever Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel)
5. [Built In – Vessel Technologies Profile](https://builtin.com/company/vessel-technologies-inc)

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