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title: 'Country Executive at Light'
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# Country Executive at Light

- **Company:** Light
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/light-inc/d91f8c6e-0ad4-4b2c-8991-14c29c5c7bf5

## Job description

The finance function is broken. Everyone building for it is boring.

Fast-growing multi-entity companies get two options: duct-tape a Frankenstack, or surrender to a corporate ERP and its consultant army. Both are bad. Both are beatable. Beating them market by market is this job.

Light is the AI-native financial platform for modern companies. Fast to implement, intuitive to use, smarter every month. We call it organic software. Legora, Lovable, and Fuse Energy run on it. Product ships something worth shouting about every single week.

What we don't have is a single person on the ground in your country.

THIS IS NOT A COUNTRY MANAGER ROLE.

Most first-in-market hires get a quota, a deck, and a flight. They repeat the London pitch in a local accent and forward complaints to HQ. This is the opposite. This is a founding hire for someone who wants far more scope than their years of experience would get them anywhere else.

No entity. No local team. No local playbook. You are Light's first boots on the ground in your market, and within a year you should know that market's complexity - its rules, its buyers, its excuses - better than anyone else. It's not a leadership title. It's the seed of one. Do this right and there's a real path: stand up an entity, hire a team around you, move into product, or run the region as GM.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING.

- Sitting across from finance leaders. Real conversations, not discovery calls off a script. You find out what they actually need - the thing behind the thing they asked for - and you come back with it written down clearly enough for engineers to build against.
- Being the connective tissue. Customer, product, commercial. What you learn in-market changes how Light builds and how Light sells. You are the wire between them, and the wire has to carry current in both directions.
- Owning the local rulebook. Compliance, regulation, filing, the specific ways finance is done badly in your country. You're the person in the room who genuinely knows this, and you make sure it shows up in the product and in the pitch.
- Having a public point of view. Ideally you arrive with a finance background and an opinion on what "doing finance right" looks like here. Bring it into the market, into the roadmap, and into how every prospect sees Light. Relationships, events, brand presence - built from zero, by you.
- Closing, with London behind you. Our sales team helps you manage and push deals over the line. You bring the market and customer understanding that makes those conversations land. They support you; they don't carry you and you don't carry it alone.

HOW WE'LL KEEP SCORE.

This isn't a pure revenue seat, but growing your country's ARR is the primary goal and you're tied directly to that number. A starting point will be set on what you're measured against on day one and you have to prove your worth.

WHAT WE'LL ASK FOR.

- The thing you built from nothing. A company, a market, a GTM motion, a product. Something that existed because you hacked through a messy sale with no playbook. First question in the first call.
- Credibility in front of a CFO. A finance background ideally, or enough substance that a finance leader takes you seriously the moment you walk in. You can't be the voice of the market without an ear for the buyer.
- 2+ years as a founder or co-founder. Ex-founder or very early operator. We want the scar tissue.
- 6+ years somewhere fast. High-growth tech, top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking, or similar. Or a body of work that makes the number irrelevant.
- Structured thinking under mess. Exceptional analytical instincts, applied to markets nobody has mapped for you yet.
- Fluency in your market's language and in English. Both, properly.

Extra credit: exposure to accounting, enterprise software, fintech or SaaS as a user, buyer or advisor; time spent presenting to senior finance stakeholders; an existing finance network in your market - or a demonstrated, unembarrassed intent to build one.

THE GOOD STUFF.

💸 Competitive salary plus potential stock options. 🏝 25 days annual leave plus public holidays where you're based. 🚀 A genuine chance to build a market from the ground up and grow with it. 🥳 Regular socials and company off-sites - the last one was in Italy. 🌍 Time with the team in London, Copenhagen, Munich, NY, Paris and wherever the action is.

HOW TO APPLY.

Show us who you are, not just your CV. Tell us what you built and what it did in numbers. Then answer the only question that matters: why this one? Anyone can say they want to work at a startup. A generic AI-written cover letter with no craft behind the prompt will be obvious - and is its own kind of answer.

If this reads as too much scope for one person: it is. That's the seat.

Light is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Light

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Light provides an AI-native, multi-entity financial platform (ERP) that automates global accounting, AR, AP, expenses, and financial reporting for multinational technology companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Jonathan Sanders (CEO) and Filip Kozjak (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Software / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2B, specifically multinational technology companies and businesses with complex multi-entity accounting needs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the Smart Financial Platform, redefining ERP by shipping fast, joyful features built for finance and revolutionizing the world’s largest and oldest software category. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Light Platform (AI-Native Financial Platform)**: A unified SaaS platform that combines General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, expenses, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. It is built on a best-in-class in-memory HTAP database for instant reporting and is designed to scale to billions of transactions. Key features include immutable record keeping, AI-powered accounting (e.g., a "finance companion" for snapping receipts and answering policy questions), automated workflows, and multi-entity consolidation. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding: $43 Million**. This includes a $13M Seed round (led by Atomico, June 2024) and a $30M Series A (led by Balderton Capital, October 2025). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atomico (Seed lead), Balderton Capital (Series A lead). The team is also crafted by engineers and designers from world-class companies like Spotify, X, AWS, Klarna, Google, and Shopify. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Growth Signals**: The company is in a "high-velocity go-to-market phase" with rapid customer onboarding. Headcount has grown **+175% year-over-year** (from ~22 to 61+ employees). The company is actively shipping features faster than ever and fielding many RFPs. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Unlike legacy ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite), Light is built from the ground up as an AI-first platform, enabling features like automated workflows, smart predictions, and a conversational finance assistant.
- **Performance at Scale**: Built on an in-memory HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) database, Light boasts sub-500ms response times for any transaction or report, even at billions of transactions, whereas competitors can take up to 100 seconds. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
- **Immutable Ledger**: Uses an immutable ledger for perfect audit trails, a critical feature for compliance that traditional, editable databases lack. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
- **Multi-Entity Focus**: Purpose-built to solve the extreme complexity of multinational accounting, eliminating the need for a "finance frankenstack" of multiple disconnected systems. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)

## Strategic Focus
- **Go-to-Market Velocity**: The company is aggressively scaling its sales, onboarding, and customer experience teams to capture market demand.
- **Product Velocity**: Shipping new features and improvements at a rapid pace, focusing on making the platform more intuitive and powerful.
- **Global Expansion**: With offices in London, Copenhagen, and New York, and a remote team across Europe and the Americas, Light is building a global presence to serve international customers. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, sales, implementation, and AI strategy to fuel its growth phase.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company values speed, simplicity, clarity, and joy. They emphasize a "joyful user experience" for both customers and employees.
- **Work Environment**: Offers a hybrid/office model with physical offices in London, Copenhagen, and New York. Employees typically work from physical offices. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc)
- **Perks & Benefits**: Includes healthcare benefits (dental, health, vision), life insurance, 401(K) (US), generous parental leave, company equity, and free snacks/drinks. They also have quarterly team events ("Starsite") in iconic European cities. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc), [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on a "world-class" product redefining a massive, legacy software category (ERP) with a highly skilled team from top tech companies. The engineering culture is described as "crafting the AI-native financial platform" with a focus on speed and quality. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)

## Sources
1. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc)
3. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)
5. [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/light-lightinc)

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