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title: 'Finance Manager / Controller at Passes'
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# Finance Manager / Controller at Passes

- **Company:** Passes
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/passes/25264c38-7077-4d17-8430-d3762bcb3f84

## Job description

Los Angeles or Remote within the US

Passes is a leading platform dedicated to empowering creators and fostering meaningful connections with their audiences, providing innovative solutions that help creators grow and thrive in the digital landscape.

Passes is seeking a dynamic, ownership-minded Finance Manager to lead financial operations following our current Head of Finance's departure. This person doesn't need the most senior title on paper, but they need to be comfortable owning the entire finance function, from day-to-day operations to strategic financial planning, and should be highly fluent with AI tools like Claude to operate at a more senior level than years of experience alone would suggest.

## Key Responsibilities

Financial Leadership

- Own all financial operations: budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and analysis
- Manage payroll (we use Rippling) and day-to-day financial operations
- Own headcount cost modeling and understand the fully-loaded cost of each role
- Own PNL reporting and present regular financial updates to leadership
- Monitor and manage cash flow and efficient use of company resources
- Manage budget tracking via Ramp for employee spend, flagging out-of-policy transactions

Compliance

- Ensure financial compliance across the company, including tax filings, GAAP-aligned reporting, and audit readiness
- Implement internal controls and financial policies
- Stay current on payments compliance requirements as our payments platform product scales

Payments & Technical Systems

- Work hands-on in Passes' proprietary system and in Mercury for manual payouts, vendor invoicing, and general payments
- Support financial operations for our our payments platform product, partnering closely with the technical team on how payment flows and manual interventions affect the books

Sales Compensation

- Partner with the Head of People on commission structures, payout modeling, and compensation benchmarking for the sales team

Strategic & Risk

- Bring exposure to fundraising and M&A dynamics; comfortable in a startup environment where these conversations are part of the territory
- Identify and mitigate financial risk

Our Stack: Mercury, Ramp, Rippling, Claude, Microsoft Office (excel), Google Suite

## Qualifications

- 1-4 years of experience in finance roles (flexibility for less experienced candidates with an exceptional academic or professional background)
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
- Strong fluency with AI tools, particularly Claude, is a hard requirement
- Comfortable owning a full department with limited senior backup
- Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment

## Benefits

- Base salary starts at $120,000 plus equity package
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible work environment with remote options
- [If in Los Angeles] Private chef in our Hollywood HQ for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Passes is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Passes

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Passes is a creator commerce platform that provides tools for creators to monetize their audiences directly through memberships, paid messages, livestreams, and digital goods.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Lucy Guo

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Creator Economy, Social Commerce, Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B (creators, influencers, athletes, gamers, podcasters, models, and tastemakers of all sizes)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To give individual creators autonomy over their influence and to empower them as entrepreneurs." [faq.passes.com](https://faq.passes.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Memberships**: Recurring revenue from tiered access subscriptions; creators can set different price points for exclusive content.
- **Paid DMs**: Fans pay to send direct messages to creators.
- **1:1 Calls**: Premium one-on-one video call bookings.
- **Livestreams**: Live streaming with monetization capabilities.
- **Content Vault**: Organize, schedule, and monetize content with drip release scheduling and pay-per-view options.
- **Merch & Digital**: Storefront for selling branded merchandise and digital products.
- **Group Chats**: Premium community group messaging.
- **Mass DMs**: Broadcast messaging to thousands of fans for promotions and updates.
- **Smart Scheduler**: Calendar-based auto-posting for optimal engagement timing.
- **Content Protection Suite**: Anti-screenshot technology, unique invisible watermarks for leak tracking, screenshot blocking, and DMCA takedown support.
- **Auto-Blocking Vault**: Users attempting to capture content are automatically flagged and blocked.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$66.0M** raised across 3 rounds (Seed, Venture, Series A) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BOND Capital (led Series A), Abstract Ventures, Craft Ventures, Multicoin Capital (led Seed), Michael Ovitz (CAA founder), Emma and Jens Grede (SKIMS founders), Paris Hilton, Jake Paul [passes.com/team](https://www.passes.com/team)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Acquired competitor **Fanhouse** in July 2023 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)
  - 48 employees (+30.7% YoY headcount growth) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)
  - Creators on Passes earn 4-10X more compared to other brand-safe premium content platforms [faq.passes.com](https://faq.passes.com/)
  - Presence in United States, Philippines, Canada, and Ecuador [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Creator-friendly economics**: Creators keep 90% of earnings (Passes takes only 10%), significantly lower than many competitors.
- **Advanced content protection**: Proprietary anti-screenshot technology, invisible watermarks, and active DMCA enforcement provide a safer environment for premium creators.
- **Founder pedigree**: Co-founded by Lucy Guo, former co-founder of Scale AI (a $14B+ unicorn), bringing deep AI and infrastructure expertise.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines memberships, DMs, calls, livestreaming, merch, and content vault in a single ecosystem, reducing creator tool fragmentation.
- **Two-layer content moderation**: Human oversight combined with best-in-class AI tools for content review and safety.

## Strategic Focus
- **Creator entrepreneurship**: Shifting creators from reliance on brand deals to sustainable, recurring direct-to-fan revenue streams.
- **Platform safety**: Positioning as "the safest place for creators to build businesses" through robust content protection and moderation.
- **AI-driven analytics**: Leveraging AI for insights, analytics, and content protection features.
- **Expansion of creator services**: Offering health insurance access and wealth management counsel to creators, expanding beyond core monetization tools.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring Account Executives and a Support Operations Manager, with a focus on sales and creator partnerships.

## Why Work Here
- **Founder-led startup**: Work directly under Lucy Guo, a repeat founder with a track record of building successful companies (Scale AI).
- **Well-funded**: $66M in total funding from top-tier investors provides strong runway and growth resources.
- **In-person culture**: Based in-person in Los Angeles and New York, with a collaborative office environment. [passes.com/team](https://www.passes.com/team)
- **Fast-paced growth**: 30.7% YoY headcount growth signals a rapidly scaling organization with career advancement opportunities.
- **Diverse team**: Employees sourced from top companies including TikTok, Amazon, Jane Street, Cameo, and Google. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)
- **Open roles**: Currently hiring for Account Executive (multiple focuses) and Support Operations Manager, indicating investment in sales and creator success functions. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/passes)

## Sources
1. [passes.com](https://www.passes.com/)
2. [faq.passes.com](https://faq.passes.com/)
3. [passes.com/team](https://www.passes.com/team)
4. [linkedin.com/company/passes](https://www.linkedin.com/company/passes)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/passes](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/passes)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/passes](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/passes)

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