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# Director of Finance at Solstice

- **Company:** Solstice
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solstice/4db428f3-61fd-4f17-ae79-28dcd559972a

## Job description

Director of Finance

## Why you should join us

Solstice is redefining how life sciences organizations commercialize their therapeutics. We are building a commercial engine that empowers pharmaceutical marketers to launch campaigns at lightning speed, harnessing cutting-edge technology and AI-driven solutions. Our mission is to accelerate the knowledge of life saving medicines. Rapid growth: We have partnered with leading life sciences manufacturers, supporting 50+ pharma brands and growing quickly. Frontiers of technology: Our team experiments with LLMs and innovative frameworks, seeking to reshape pharmaceutical marketing and enhance commercial outcomes for our clients. Top-tier investors: Backed by Transformation Capital, Twelve Below, Virtue, and the founders of industry-leading companies, we are assembling a world-class team of operators and technologists. Building something great takes dedication and relentless drive. We seek ambitious leaders who thrive in high-ownership, high-impact environments.

## About the Role

As Finance Manager at Solstice, you will build and own our financial operations, reporting directly to the co-founders. You will be our first dedicated finance hire — responsible for standing up clean, audit-ready books, running payroll and compliance, and building the financial models and reporting our leadership team and board rely on. This is a hands-on, builder role: you won't inherit a finance function, you'll create one. You will:

- Own the accounting function end-to-end, including monthly close, accounts payable and receivable, and financial statement accuracy.
- Own invoicing and billing for our pharma brand clients, and drive accounts receivable collections — chasing down late payments, managing customer payment terms, and keeping days sales outstanding (DSO) in check.
- Run payroll and ensure tax and regulatory compliance across all jurisdictions we operate in.
- Build and maintain our core financial models, including a three-statement model, cash flow forecasts, and burn/runway tracking.
- Design and implement financial controls, expense policy, and approval workflows as we scale headcount and spend.
- Prepare board-ready reporting packages and partner with the co-founders on budgeting and financial planning.
- Manage relationships with our bank, auditors, and any outside accounting or tax support.
- Lay the groundwork for the systems and processes a growing finance team will build on.

## What You'll Be Working On

- Cleaning up and professionalizing our books, chart of accounts, and close process
- Setting up a repeatable invoicing process for client billing and owning the A/R collections cadence — follow-ups, aging reports, and escalations for overdue accounts
- Implementing an expense policy and spend controls as the team grows
- Building a reliable three-statement financial model and monthly board reporting package
- Managing payroll, benefits administration coordination, and compliance filings
- Partnering with the co-founders on budgeting, forecasting, and fundraise-related financial diligence
- Selecting and implementing the accounting/finance tooling stack (e.g., QuickBooks, bill pay, expense management)
- Establishing the financial rigor and documentation standards that will support our next fundraise and eventual audit

Ideal Candidate Profiles This is a unique opportunity for candidates from many backgrounds, including:

- A finance operator from an early-stage startup ready to own a function independently rather than as part of a larger team
- A detail-driven generalist with strong financial acumen who wants deep exposure to how an early-stage company is actually run
- A former banker or accountant (Big 4 ) who has moved into a startup finance seat and wants full ownership

You Might Be a Good Fit if You:

- Have 4–8 years' experience in accounting or finance, ideally including time in banking or strategic finance followed by an early-stage startup environment
- Can independently build and maintain a three-statement model and board-ready reporting without heavy oversight
- Are comfortable being tactical and hands-on — this role is about accuracy and execution, not high-level strategy
- Have a strong grasp of GAAP, payroll compliance, and the fundamentals of financial controls
- Learn fast, execute relentlessly, and excel in ambiguous, fast-paced, in-person startup settings
- Are organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and proactive
- Take initiative and enjoy working collaboratively as a great teammate with no ego

Disclaimer This position is not all glamor. It involves a lot of behind-the-scenes work: reconciliations, policy-writing, and closing the books every month. Everyone at Solstice is a builder and is not afraid to lay the bricks themselves. This role is not for pure strategists — we are looking for doers.

## How We Work

We are in person five days a week in our NYC office and work hard because building something exceptional demands focus and commitment. In exchange, you'll own high-impact projects, learn quickly, and collaborate with exceptional colleagues in a supportive culture.

## Benefits

- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) with 4% match
- Visa sponsorship (O-1, H-1B, TN) available
- Meals, transportation, and daily logistics support
- Relocation support

## Compensation

This is a highly competitive NYC-based role with salary and equity calibrated to your experience, seniority, and level of ownership. We benchmark against top-tier Series A startups to ensure our offers are both fair and compelling.

## About Solstice

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Solstice builds an AI-native platform for life sciences marketing teams to create, evaluate, and distribute compliant pharmaceutical content at unprecedented speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, $3.5M raised)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (Angel round in May 2022)
- **Founders**: Aris Saxena and Yiwen L.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Life sciences / pharmaceutical marketing technology
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily pharmaceutical brand teams and biopharma marketing departments (enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Launch compliant AI-driven campaigns for your pharma brand" – accelerating go-to-market for therapeutics by rethinking the content supply chain from brief to medical-legal review submission.

## Products & Services
- **Solstice Platform**: An AI engine that ingests approved brand assets and reference libraries, generates personalized marketing content (emails, print, digital), fact-checks against labels and regulations, and streamlines review cycles through integrations (e.g., Veeva, Ziflow). Type: SaaS / AI-native platform.
- **Commercial Engagement Services**: Solstice’s team also offers managed services to pharma clients – creating, deploying, and measuring campaign performance on behalf of the brand. Type: Service + Software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $3.5M (Seed round, February 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Twelve Below (lead), Virtue (lead); integrations with Veeva, Ziflow, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance (May 2025)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 91.7% YoY to ~13 employees; LinkedIn followers grew 575% YoY (1,864 followers); 8 active job openings as of mid-2026; 50+ biopharma brands served; active presence at industry events (DDW, AAN, Fierce Pharma, Pharma CX Summit)

## Competitive Advantages
- Purpose-built for pharmaceutical compliance (not a generic AI marketing tool retrofitted for regulated industries)
- Proprietary pharmaceutical marketing models for content generation and fact-checking
- Speed: average content development cycles measured in weeks, not months; from brief to MLR submission in days
- In-person culture in NYC that prioritizes “shipping over talking” and “the work comes first”
- Deep domain expertise – team includes former life sciences professionals and engineers experienced in regulated AI

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the team across technical (AI/ML ops, backend engineering) and commercial roles (client operations, partnerships, marketing)
- Deepening integrations with pharma workflows (Veeva, project management, analytics)
- Expanding enterprise client base and moving into additional therapeutic areas (oncology, rare disease, neurology)
- Continuing to comply with evolving regulatory standards while maintaining speed

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “speed without shortcuts,” “seek discomfort,” and a bias for action – no long memos or bureaucracy. The team meets in-person daily in NYC (10016). Remote or hybrid is not offered; it’s an in-person office culture.
- **Growth trajectory**: Early-stage but rapidly growing (91.7% headcount growth YoY); employees have direct impact on product, client success, and company direction.
- **Technical environment**: Modern stack (TypeScript, React, Python, Docker, Figma, HubSpot, Salesforce, Veeva integrations); AI/ ML Ops roles available.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company values “the work comes first” – meaningful problems in healthcare with a small, ambitious team.

## Sources
1. [solsticehealth.co](https://www.solsticehealth.co/) – Company website
2. [solsticehealth.co/company](https://www.solsticehealth.co/company) – Company page
3. [solsticehealth.co/careers](https://www.solsticehealth.co/careers) – Careers page
4. [linkedin.com/company/solsticehealth](https://www.linkedin.com/company/solsticehealth) – LinkedIn company page (employee data, funding, updates)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/solstice](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solstice) – Active job postings

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