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title: 'Director of FP&A at OpenArt AI'
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# Director of FP&A at OpenArt AI

- **Company:** OpenArt AI
- **Location:** San Carlos, CA
- **Compensation:** $300k–$500k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart/27f9252c-fda6-4a1c-8c2f-eb7a2ae17b73

## Job description

Director of FP&A

🎨 About OpenArt OpenArt helps millions of creators turn ideas into images, videos, stories, and ads with AI. We’re a small, fast-moving team building for people who have a vision but not a studio. OpenArt is #12 on a16z’s Top 50 Consumer AI Apps by Monthly Revenue, one of five companies in the 2026 Disney Accelerator, and part of Notable Capital’s Prosumer AI 40.

🚀 Why Join OpenArt

- Lead FP&A at a critical inflection point. You will help shape how OpenArt plans, invests, and manages its next stage of growth.
- Build the financial foundation for a category-defining company. You will develop the models, systems, and insights required to support rapid channel and global expansion.
- Work on high-impact operating decisions. You will partner directly with finance and business leaders on growth investment, pricing, headcount, and resource allocation.
- High ownership, real impact. You will own the FP&A function and see your work translate directly into how OpenArt operates.

🎯 About the Role

- The Director of FP&A will lead OpenArt’s financial planning and analysis through our next stage of growth. Reporting to the CFO, you will own budgeting, forecasting, operating models, scenario analysis, headcount planning, performance reporting, and long-range planning.
- You will build a scalable FP&A function and give the company clear visibility into its performance, unit economics, and cash flow. You will be both a strategic business partner and a hands-on operator—equally comfortable building an operating model, reviewing the books with Accounting, evaluating a growth investment, and explaining what is changing in the business and why.
- The ideal candidate brings meaningful operating-finance leadership at a high-growth technology company. You are financially and technically sharp, deeply understand the business behind the numbers, and turn complex data into clear recommendations and better decisions.

⚙️ What We’re Looking For

Core Requirements

- 8+ years of experience across FP&A, strategic finance, accounting, or related analytical and finance roles
- Experience supporting a business with significant revenue, operating complexity, and substantial multi-channel marketing investment
- Deep experience with budgeting, forecasting, operating models, scenario analysis, and long-range planning
- Strong command of financial statements and accounting principles, with the ability to reconcile operating analysis to the books
- Strong understanding of consumer subscription metrics, cohort analysis, unit economics, cash management, and resource allocation
- Experience partnering with Growth on channel performance, acquisition budgets, customer value, and investment returns
- Ability to understand the business deeply and translate product, growth, pricing, and cost dynamics into financial plans and operating recommendations
- Experience building FP&A processes, reporting, and team capabilities
- Highly hands-on and able to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and influence business leaders
- AI-native in how you approach analysis, automation, reporting, and team productivity

## Nice to Have

- Operating-finance leadership experience at a high-growth technology or consumer subscription company, with meaningful ownership of FP&A through a period of rapid expansion
- Investment banking, growth equity experience or other rigorous analytical training

🛠 What You’ll Do

- Lead FP&A: Own budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, headcount planning, performance reporting, and long-range planning.
- Build the Operating Model: Connect acquisition, retention, pricing, usage, revenue, costs, and cash flow in an integrated financial model, grounded in a clear understanding of the books and reconciled to actual financial results.
- Drive Business Performance: Improve pricing, unit economics, gross margin, and resource allocation through actionable financial analysis.
- Guide Investments: Evaluate growth and operating investments, set budgets, assess expected returns, and track financial impact to guide resource allocation.
- Own Management Financial Reporting: Deliver clear, decision-oriented reporting, explain variances and business drivers, and support board reporting.
- Build Scalable Systems: Improve the models, data, reporting, and automation required to support rapid growth.
- Develop the FP&A Function: Establish practical processes and build a high-performing team as the business scales.

🌍 Work Setup Based in San Carlos, CA with a hybrid option.

## About OpenArt AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenArt is an all-in-one AI creative platform that enables users to generate, edit, and remix images, videos, characters, audio, and 3D worlds through a single interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Coco Mao (CEO), John Qiao (CTO) – both former Google engineers

## Core Business
- Primary Industry: Technology, Information and Internet; AI‑powered creative tools
- Target Customers: B2C (millions of individual creators) and B2B (brands, studios, content teams)
- Mission Statement: “Build the future of storytelling with AI.”

## Products & Services
- **Image Generation & Editing** – Generate images using models like GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0, and edit within the same canvas (erase, expand, restyle, upscale to 4K).
- **Video Generation** – Create videos up to 15 seconds at up to 4K resolution, choosing from models such as Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 Omni, and Sora 2. Refine or edit each generation.
- **Character Builder** – Build consistent characters using reference images or text; characters can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same face and style.
- **World** – Generate persistent, navigable 3D spatial environments from a single prompt or reference images; add characters, place objects, take still photos, or export to 3D tools.
- **Audio** – AI voiceovers in 30+ languages with lip‑sync, original music generation, and sound effects (footsteps, rain, etc.). Export as WAV or MP3 timed to video.
- **OpenArt Director** – Storyboard and refine video sequences using natural‑language chat for granular shot‑by‑shot control.
- **Smart Shot** – Convert a single prompt into 3–5 cinematic cuts with varied angles, camera moves, and visual consistency.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Recurring Revenue**: Grew from $10.5 M to over $70 M in 2025 (7× growth) [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
  - **Monthly Active Users**: 8 million+ [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Total Funding**: $40 M+ across three rounds:
  - Seed (June 2023): $5 M led by DCM Ventures and CapitalOven [[tracxn.com]](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
  - Venture Round (Aug 2025): $5 M [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Series A (2026–Q1): $30 M – $35 M (conflicting reports) led by Canaan Partners [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Canaan Partners, DCM Ventures, CapitalOven; partnerships with leading AI model providers (Seedream, Google Veo, Kling, etc.)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee headcount: 67 (1,172.7% YoY growth; 29.6% monthly growth) [[linkedin.com]](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
  - Presence in 17 countries across North America, Asia, and Europe
  - Hosted the world’s first AI Influencer Summit and produced “Bot House,” the first AI reality TV show

## Competitive Advantages
- **All‑in‑one platform**: Instead of juggling separate tools (Midjourney for images, Runway/Sora for video, etc.), users access images, video, characters, audio, and 3D worlds under a single subscription.
- **Character consistency**: A core differentiator – one character can be reused across images, scenes, and videos with the same look, enabling storytelling and AI influencers.
- **Model agnosticism**: The platform bundles multiple top‑tier AI models (Seedream, Veo, GPT Image, Kling, Sora, etc.), letting users pick the best option per project without paying multiple subscriptions.
- **Strong retention driven by storytelling**: The metric most watched is not ARR but how often creators return to deepen characters and expand universes.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the end‑to‑end creative platform for storytellers (characters, worlds, long‑form video)
- Expand the AI influencer and brand‑mascot market (e.g., AI Influencer Summit, Bot House reality show)
- Deepen integration of audio and video editing for professional studios
- Grow the engineering and product teams – “We’ve nearly doubled in size this year, and the pace isn’t slowing down.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑moving, lean team that “move[s] fast, over‑communicate[s], and put[s] storytelling at the heart of everything.” [[openart.ai/blog]](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
- **Growth trajectory**: Company experienced 7× ARR growth in one year and is actively hiring across departments (engineering, design, product, marketing)
- **Founders**: Ex‑Google (Coco Mao, John Qiao) with a track record of launching products at scale (short‑form video platform acquired by Google Search)
- **Work model**: Hybrid / office presence in San Francisco (HQ) and Redwood City; no formal remote‑first policy stated
- **Notable**: Free trial available for users; employees have backgrounds from top AI companies (Stability AI, Invideo, ImagineArt, etc.)

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openart-ai)
2. [openart.ai](https://openart.ai/)
3. [openart.ai/blog](https://openart.ai/blog/the-openart-story/)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openart/__rGLZ4jZtTKFqOnIFJpVIpXqrPEtJHfzKwCfxXxYFnns)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openart)

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