--- title: 'Director, Audit Transformation at Fieldguide' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-audit-transformation-fieldguide-san-francisco-ca-or-ayknrzm9xh25' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # Director, Audit Transformation at Fieldguide - **Company:** Fieldguide - **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States - **Compensation:** $220k–$255k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fieldguide/df0e17ea-85bc-45bc-b939-fe54426fb170 ## Job description ## About Us Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners with AI agents. They are based in San Francisco and have raised over $125M+ in venture funding from top Silicon Valley investors to accomplish their ambitious vision, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more. Fieldguide has become the defining agentic company for CPAs, with more than 50%+ of the top-100 CPA firms as customers, including several Big 4, and an industry-leading NPS to match. They save up to 75% of time on manual tasks and unlock over 4x capacity for audit practitioners, helping provide the work-life balance that is rare in the profession. Fieldguide is on the same growth curve as the later-stage vertical AI leaders, but you would be joining early enough to have a meaningful impact. Fieldguide values diversity, both in backgrounds and in experiences to help build the future of audit and advisory. They are deliberate in preserving a winning culture with their FFLOWI values - Fearless, Fast, Lovable, Owners, Win-Win, Inclusive - providing space for teammates to do their career’s best work through a tightly-knit support network. If you want to shape the most important shift in how commerce and capital markets establish trust, alongside world-class teammates, Fieldguide would love to build with you. ## About the Role The Director, Audit Transformation will lead the shift from traditional audit execution to an agentic operating model. Reporting to the Head of Audit, you will set the direction for how financial audit agents are designed, adopted, and scaled across our customer base. You will serve as the connection point between the Fieldguide agentic platform and the profession it serves. In partnership with product, engineering, sales, and customer success, you will define the scope of the audit expertise behind an agentic operating model rather than layering agents onto legacy processes, including the documentation required to satisfy professional standards and withstand regulatory inspection. With Customer Success, you will establish the change management framework that guides firms from initial adoption through full transformation, built for consistent delivery at scale. You will also support the Head of Audit on the strategic planning and special initiatives that translate audit strategy into execution and go to market initiatives. This role calls for a leader with audit credibility earned through leading engagements, shaping methodology, or driving innovation within a leading firm, together with the conviction that professional judgment remains central to the audit. This is an opportunity to define how audit is delivered in the next decade, not to refine how it is delivered today. ## What You’ll Do Product Partnership - Serve as the audit domain expert in product discovery, prioritization, and roadmap planning for agent-based workflows, translating practitioner and firm needs into product specs - Work with AI architects and engineers to translate professional standards and practitioner judgment into the prompts, workflows, and guardrails behind our integrated methodologies and testing agents - Determine which procedures are suitable for agent execution, what level of autonomy is appropriate, and how output must be documented to satisfy professional standards and withstand regulatory inspection - Pressure-test new agent capabilities with practitioners before they ship, creating a tight feedback loop between the field, Methodology, and Product Customer Transformation - Own, with Customer Success, the transformation motion that guides firms from initial adoption to full agentic audit transformation, including the playbook, maturity model, and program structure behind it - Equip Customer Success with the frameworks, content, and training to deliver transformation engagements repeatably and at scale, rather than one-off and bespoke - Serve as executive sponsor and audit subject-matter expert on transformation engagements with Fieldguide's most strategic accounts - Act as an escalation point on complex methodology and adoption issues - Monitor customer health and methodology fit, feeding what you learn back into the product and methodology roadmaps - Represent Fieldguide externally through written content, webinars, and speaking engagements such as AICPA ENGAGE and state CPA societies, and through relationships with standard-setters, regulators, and industry analysts - Monitor regulatory and standard-setting developments across the PCAOB, AICPA, and SEC, and translate the implications into Fieldguide's product, methodology, and messaging Go-to-Market Support - Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on go to market opportunities, leading executive briefings, product demonstrations, and technical validation conversations with firm leadership - Represent Fieldguide on customer onsites, building credibility with both firm leadership and technical evaluators - Support Sales and Marketing with audit-credible narrative, competitive positioning, and content across top-of-funnel and late-stage deals ## About You - CPA with 10+ years of financial audit experience at a public accounting firm, including senior leadership, national office, or innovation/transformation exposure, including direct experience with regulatory and standard-setting bodies. - Experience designing or scaling a repeatable transformation or change-management program (playbooks, maturity models, training) - Strong expertise in auditing standards and audit methodology - Experience with audit technology, automation, or AI-enabled tools, audit methodologies, templates, or workpapers. - Working knowledge of quality control/quality management standards as they relate to methodology and audit documentation. - Ability to translate professional standards into structured workflows and logic - Strong analytical thinking and ability to work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams - Executive presence and the confidence to lead demos, onsites, and validation sprints directly in front of firm leadership and regulators. Nice to Haves - Active involvement with AICPA, state CPA societies, or standard-setting bodies. - Experience building or scaling a firm-wide innovation or transformation initiative. - Experience working in audit methodology, quality or national office roles. - Expertise in international auditing standards and methodologies. - Experience with LLM-based or agentic workflows, prompt design, or AI-enabled audit tooling. More about Fieldguide Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are: - Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls. - Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection. - Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences. - Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership. - Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life. - Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams. Some of our benefits include - Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership - Flexible PTO - 401k - Wellness benefits starting on your first day - Technology & Work from Home reimbursement - Flexible work schedules ## About Fieldguide ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fieldguide is an AI-native platform that automates audit and advisory engagements for professional services firms, replacing manual workflows with agentic AI and collaborative tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125.3M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Jin Chang (CEO/Co-Founder) and Chris Szymansky (CTO/Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory (Regulatory Compliance, Risk Advisory, Financial Audit, SOC Readiness, IT Audit, Cybersecurity & Privacy, ESG) - **Target Customers**: B2B — Audit and advisory practices (CPA firms, risk advisory firms, internal audit teams) ranging from top 100 firms to regional practices. Clients include KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA, CohnReznick, and many others. - **Mission/Purpose**: "Increase trust in commerce and capital markets" by amplifying the assurance and advisory engagement experience through automation and AI. ## Products & Services - **Fieldguide AI Platform**: The core end-to-end engagement management platform where practitioners and AI agents work together. Covers planning, testing, evidence review, reporting, and client collaboration. - **Field Agents (Agentic AI)**: Purpose-built AI agents that automate end-to-end test procedures — validating evidence, summarizing results, and flagging exceptions. Includes Testing Agents, Substantive Testing Agents, Request Agents, and Agentic Chat. - **AI Actions**: Handles recurring tasks across entire workpapers (drafting walkthroughs, suggesting test plans). - **Client Hub**: Automated modern request management with a client-facing portal. - **Reporting Automation**: One-click collaborative report generation. - **Document Management**: Enterprise-grade workpaper management. - **End-to-End Engagement Management**: Centralized platform for planning, execution, and delivery across every practice area and methodology. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (last round: Series C, $75M, announced February 2026) - **Total Funding**: $125.3M (8 rounds) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $7.5M (156 employees) - **Notable Investors**: Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead, Series C), Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries. Corporate investment from KPMG (2025). - **Growth Signals**: 64.5% YoY headcount growth (+78 people); 50% of the top 100 firms trust Fieldguide; 32% reduction in engagement hours for customers; 70% reduction in manual testing time; 95% reduction in manual testing time for certain workflows; error rate of less than 1% versus manual processes; 5-time winner of CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical AI Moat**: Purpose-built for regulated audit and advisory environments, not a generic AI tool. Field Agents are trained on industry standards (SOX, HIPAA, FFIEC, HITRUST, PCI DSS) and firm methodologies. - **Founder-Market Fit**: Both co-founders have deep industry experience — Jin Chang spent 5 years at EY in audit & advisory; Chris Szymansky has a technical background and founded a crypto tax automation company. - **Network Effects**: As more firms use the platform, the AI agents improve across methodologies and regulatory frameworks, creating a data moat. - **Top-Tier Customer Base**: Already adopted by 50% of the top 100 firms, including Big Four (KPMG) and national leaders (RSM, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton), providing credibility and a strong reference base. - **Capital & Strategic Backing**: Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer, 8VC, and a strategic investment from KPMG — signaling both financial strength and industry validation. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI First**: Doubling down on autonomous AI agents that execute testing, documentation, and evidence review, allowing practitioners to focus on judgment and client impact. - **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond audit into risk advisory, SOC, ESG, cybersecurity, and other assurance practices — becoming the single platform for all trust services. - **Geographic Growth**: Expanding presence with offices/hubs in San Francisco (HQ), Denver, New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, London, Seattle, and Singapore. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (+105.6% YoY job posting growth) across engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing to scale the platform. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: Work that directly increases trust in commerce and capital markets — a meaningful, high-impact problem. - **Remote-Friendly Culture**: Described as a "remote-friendly, global company" with hubs across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Korea, and Singapore. Not fully remote but flexible. - **Strong Engineering Culture**: Cross-functional teams with autonomy and focus on core metrics. Engineers work on cutting-edge agentic AI problems in a high-regulation environment. - **Learning Opportunity**: Daily exposure to industry experts (former auditors on staff) who share knowledge — no prior audit experience needed. - **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, stock options, flexible PTO, wellness benefits, technology reimbursement, company offsites. - **Culture Values**: "Loveable" (create mutual value, earn trust), "Fearless" (inspire, break down walls), "Fast" (launch fast, iterate to perfection), "Inclusive" (scale best ideas with inclusive teams), "Owners" (execute with ownership), "Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences." - **Talent Density**: Team includes alumni from Meta, Amazon, Brex, Carta, EY, Thomson Reuters, FloQast, LaunchDarkly — high-caliber peers. ## Sources 1. [fieldguide.io](https://www.fieldguide.io/) 2. [fieldguide.io/about](https://www.fieldguide.io/about) 3. [fieldguide.io/careers](https://www.fieldguide.io/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc) 5. 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