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title: 'Finance Lead at White Circle'
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# Finance Lead at White Circle

- **Company:** White Circle
- **Location:** US San Francisco OR, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whitecircle/ce46332e-641a-429e-b649-893283613158

## Job description

TLDR: We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.

## ABOUT US

White Circle https://whitecircle.ai is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

- We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
- We process over one hundred million API calls every month
- We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

## YOU WILL:

- Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accounting
- Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date
- Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed
- Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health
- Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway
- Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions
- Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale
- Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting

YOU’LL FIT RIGHT IN IF YOU:

- You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)
- You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process
- You can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you
- You have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup

A big plus:

- CPA qualification
- Experience with international accounting
- Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking
- Build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible
- Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions
- Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch

## WHY WHITE CIRCLE

- Meaningful equity package
- Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from
- All the hardware, tools, and services you need
- Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs
- Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez

## HOW WE HIRE

1. Intro call (25 min)
2. Take-home test task
3. Final call with CEO (45 min)

Please submit your application in English

## About White Circle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: White Circle is a control layer for AI in production, providing safety, security, evals, and performance optimization through a unified API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (operational hub in Paris, France)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Denis Shilov (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Governance, AI Security, AI Observability
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (companies deploying AI agents, chatbots, or LLM-powered applications)
- **Mission or purpose**: To give organisations visibility into how their AI behaves, help them respond when things go wrong, and provide a unified system for improving reliability, safety and compliance.

## Products & Services
- **White Circle Platform**: A single API that integrates three layers:
  - **Protect**: Custom low-latency guardrails for blocking unsafe inputs, preventing jailbreaks, detecting prompt injections, PII leakage, and sensitive data leaks.
  - **Observe**: Real-time analytics including topic classification, user behavior clustering, custom metrics, error rate analysis, sentiment analysis, and risk scoring.
  - **Improve**: Model routing, dynamic prompt engineering, context enrichment, and automated optimization based on labelled user feedback.
- **CircleGuardBench**: A proprietary benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models across harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency.
- **KillBench**: A benchmark of hidden LLM biases in critical decisions (life-and-death scenarios).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $11M raised in seed funding (announced May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent AI and technology leaders including Romain Huet (ex-Head of Product @DeepMind), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François Chollet (Keras), Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind), Paige Bailey (DeepMind), and David Cramer (Sentry).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 21 employees (+283.3% YoY, +9.5% monthly growth)
  - Monthly website traffic: 32,090 visits (+682.7% yearly)
  - Active job postings: 6 (monthly job posting growth +20%)
  - SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
  - Operates in 7 countries (France, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Spain)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary self-adjusting models** optimized for low-latency and high performance
- **Unified platform** that combines safety, security, evaluation, and performance optimization – no need for multiple point solutions
- **Enterprise-grade compliance** (SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA)
- **Strong network effects** from backing by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Datadog
- **Automated red-teaming** and continuous improvement through user feedback

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate product development and expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe
- Grow global customer base across healthcare, finance, hiring, and security verticals
- Continue building benchmarks (CircleGuardBench, KillBench) to shape AI safety standards
- Maintain deep integration with the AI open-source ecosystem

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Smart, friendly, and fun” team with a strong engineering and research focus (43% technical staff)
- **Location**: Based in Paris, France with a hybrid work model (office + remote)
- **Benefits**:
  - Strong salary
  - 20 paid days off (plus ability to take more for recovery)
  - Free education (company covers learning costs)
  - Team offsites several times a year
- **Open roles** (June 2026): QA Engineer, Product Engineer (Backend), DevOps Engineer, Product Designer, AI Engineer (Audio), Data Engineer
- **Impact**: Build the future of AI safety at a well-funded, high-growth startup with world-class investors

## Sources
1. [whitecircle.ai](https://whitecircle.ai)
2. [whitecircle.ai/careers](https://whitecircle.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – White Circle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecircle)
4. [Tech.eu – White Circle lands $11M](https://tech.eu/2026/05/12/white-circle-lands-11m-to-help-companies-secure-ai-systems/)

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