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title: 'Create Your Own Role! at Ternary'
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# Create Your Own Role! at Ternary

- **Company:** Ternary
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-02-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ternary/2901fcf7-bfb4-4e05-815d-1535b235e1eb

## Job description

[Ternary](https://ternary.app) is seeking folks to join us on our journey to build the best[multi-cloud FinOps](https://finops.org/) platform in the market to help engineers, finance, and business leaders maximize the business value of the cloud. Ternary uniquely provides a self-hosted deployment option, enterprise-grade cost allocation, anomaly detection, and case workflow management to foster collaboration between teams. Join us as we take Cloud FinOps to the next level. Do you want to work at Ternary but don't see a role posted that matches your experience? We would still love to see your resume and find a potential fit for you! We can't guarantee timing, but our team will be in touch should a position that matches your background and experience open up.

Comp and benefits:

- Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year.
- We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).
- Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success (not available for contract or short term roles such as internships).
- The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.

At Ternary, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of racial orientation, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Ternary is a remote-first company.

## About Ternary

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ternary provides a full-estate technology investment intelligence platform that gives CFOs and Finance teams a unified ledger for AI, SaaS, cloud, and on-premise spend with ROI attribution.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Joshua Kwan (Co-Founder and CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: FinOps, Technology Investment Intelligence, Financial Governance
- Target customers: Mid-market through global enterprise ($500M+ revenue) where technology spend is material to the P&L; bought by CFOs, championed by FP&A leaders, and operated alongside FinOps analysts
- Mission or purpose statement: To give CEOs & CFOs the data infrastructure and full-resolution intelligence to govern AI, SaaS, cloud, and on-premise investment — with the attribution, precision, and ERP integration required to own the technology P&L

## Products & Services
- **Full-Estate Technology Ledger**: A Finance-owned ledger across AI, SaaS, cloud, and on-premise spend, mapped to cost centers, GL codes, and ERP chart of accounts. Complements SAP, Oracle, and Workday.
- **AI Investment Intelligence**: User and team-level attribution for AI consumption, cost, and outcomes. Tracks credit burn rate against contract periods so Finance can accrue correctly and see overruns before they become unbudgeted invoices.
- **SaaS Investment Intelligence**: SaaS cost normalized into the technology ledger and held against revenue, project, team, and use case data — enabling the CFO to measure return on investment, not just utilization or waste.
- **Cloud Investment Intelligence**: Multi-cloud FinOps capabilities to visualize, understand, and optimize spend across multi-cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $18.7M across two rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Jump Capital (led Series A), Neva SGR and Fin Capital (led Seed round)
- **Growth Signals**: Recognized as a Leader in the FinOps space; website traffic growing 157% year-over-year; targeting enterprises where technology spend is 5%+ of revenue and growing 9–14% annually, with AI spend compounding at 3.2x

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance-Native Ledger**: The only platform built specifically for the Office of the CFO, not for IT or Engineering — providing a full-estate technology ledger that Finance owns
- **Full-Estate Coverage**: Uniquely covers AI, SaaS, cloud, and on-premise in a single platform, whereas competitors typically solve only one fragment (e.g., cloud-only)
- **ERP Integration**: Feeds GL-mapped technology actuals directly into SAP, Oracle, and Workday — making it a true system of record for Finance
- **Investment Intelligence vs. Cost Optimization**: Focuses on ROI attribution against revenue, not just cost cutting or waste detection
- **Token-Level AI Attribution**: Provides granular visibility into AI spend that other tools cannot offer

## Strategic Focus
- Targeting enterprises with $500M+ in revenue that operate across multiple technology categories (AI, SaaS, cloud) and have ERP systems in place
- Building the "judgment infrastructure" for CFOs — moving beyond cost optimization to investment intelligence with ROI accountability
- Expanding AI investment intelligence capabilities as AI spend grows at 3.2x the rate of other technology categories
- Growing the platform to serve three audiences simultaneously: CFOs, FP&A leaders, and FinOps analysts

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company supports remote work across the US, with additional presence in China, Italy, and India
- **Engineering Ownership**: Staff Software Engineer roles emphasize "technical ownership" and working on "FinOps at enterprise scale"
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (157% yearly traffic growth) and addressing a rapidly expanding market (technology spend growing 9–14% annually)
- **Meaningful Problem**: Building the "system of record for technology" that Finance has never had — a category-defining platform
- **Small Team, Big Impact**: With ~23 employees, engineers have significant ownership and influence over product direction
- **Remote Flexibility**: Remote roles available for US-based candidates; 3 office locations (San Mateo, plus international)
- **Notable Perk**: "Create Your Own Role" option available for candidates who see a unique contribution they can make

## Sources
1. [ternary.app](https://ternary.app)
2. [ternary.app/platform/overview](https://ternary.app/platform/overview/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/ternaryinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ternaryinc)
4. [builtin.com/company/ternary/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/ternary/jobs)
5. [github.com/TernaryInc](https://github.com/TernaryInc)

## Other roles at Ternary

- [Create Your Own Role!](https://feeny.ai/job/create-your-own-role-finmid-berlin-z4688psjwn9r) — Berlin, Germany