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title: 'Financial Controller at Pylon'
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# Financial Controller at Pylon

- **Company:** Pylon
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $210k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pylon-labs/a2e469db-a599-438f-9f1a-51b5051b2091

## Job description

Pylon is the only agentic support platform, purpose-built for B2B companies. For leaders scaling AI-native support teams, Pylon lets humans and agents collaborate on customer work – investigating, resolving, and acting on every signal across every channel that matters.

Unlike platforms built before the AI era, Pylon enriches every interaction with deep account-level context, automates the low impact customer work, and surfaces answers before your team even has to ask. The result: faster responses, happier customers, and a system that continuously improves itself.

We're backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. More than 1,500 companies including Linear, Cognition (makers of Devin), Modal Labs, and [Incident.io](http://Incident.io) run their support and customer success workflows on Pylon. We're also featured on the [Enterprise Tech 30 List](https://www.enterprisetech30.com/).

## The Role

We're hiring Pylon's first Controller. This is a high-impact, foundational role. You'll own all aspects of accounting, oversee relationships with third-parties, and support the business as we scale from Series B and beyond. The role reports to the VP of Finance.

## What You'll Do

- Financial Reporting: Own month-end close processes, consolidations, and financial statement preparation in accordance with GAAP
- Accounting Operations: Oversee processes including AR (Order-to-Cash) and AP (Procure-to-Pay), partnering closely with sales, rev ops, legal, and operations teams
- Systems & Infrastructure: Implement and own the systems that will enable the business to scale (from ERP to reporting infrastructure)
- Controls & Audit Readiness: Design and implement robust internal controls and establish audit-ready processes
- Automation: Leverage AI agents and automation to reduce manual workflows such as transaction categorization and reconciliations
- External Relationships: Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners

## Requirements

- Professional experience in a Controller or Senior Accounting Manager role at a high-growth venture-backed start-up
- Experience owning a full-cycle close process and audit process
- Experience building or improving systems and processes from the ground up, not just inheriting a mature function
- Deep technical accounting knowledge including ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidations
- CPA required

Nice to Haves

- Prior public accounting background
- First-audit experience
- ERP implementation or migration experience

This Role Might NOT Be For You If

- You want a team from day one; you’ll build the team as we scale
- You prefer steady-state maintenance over building and improving processes
- You don’t love being in the details

Our perks 🚆 Commuter benefits 🌱 Parental leave 🏝️ 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO 🗺️ Annual offsite 🍽 Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office 🏋️ Fitness stipend

More about Pylon Funding: Series B led by a16z and BCV ($51M total raised) Founders: [Advith Chelikani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/advith/), [Robert Eng](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-eng/), and [Marty Kausas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martykausas) Team: Currently 100+ and growing!

## About Pylon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pylon is an AI-native customer support platform purpose-built for B2B companies, unifying conversations across Slack, Teams, email, and chat into a single intelligent workspace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $31M raised August 2025, total funding ~$51.3M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022 (Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch)
- **Founders**: Advith Chelikani (Co-Founder & CEO), Robert Eng (Co-Founder), Marty Kausas (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Customer Support / Customer Service Software (SaaS)
- **Target customers**: B2B companies of all sizes, from startups (e.g., Vellum, Hightouch, Deel) to mid-market and enterprise.
- **Mission / purpose**: To build the first customer support platform designed for how B2B teams actually work – with complex accounts, multiple stakeholders, and conversations across many platforms.

## Products & Services
- **Omnichannel Support**: A single view for all customer conversations across Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, in-app chat, WhatsApp, and ticket forms. Manages both internal and external channels.
- **AI Assistants + Agents**: AI-powered tools that automatically route issues based on intent, draft replies and knowledge articles, categorize tickets, surface account insights, generate charts, and answer natural-language questions about customers. Can resolve 50% of eligible inquiries without human intervention.
- **Knowledge Automation**: AI that identifies gaps in the knowledge base, drafts articles, and surfaces the right answers before the support team has to search.
- **Account Intelligence**: Automatically tracks churn signals, feature requests, renewal risk, and other key account data, surfacing full customer context in seconds for support, success, and sales teams.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$51.3M** (Pre-Seed $125K from Y Combinator, Seed $3.2M led by General Catalyst, Series A $17M led by a16z, Series B $31M led by Bain Capital Ventures and a16z). Estimated annual revenue of **~$2.3M** as of mid-2025 (LinkedIn estimate).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, Y Combinator.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **158% YoY** to ~87 employees (July 2025).
  - Claims **90% decrease in First Response Time** (from 35 minutes to <3.5 minutes) and **8x faster resolution time** despite 76% more ticket volume.
  - Customers include YC companies like Vellum, Hightouch, and Deel.
  - 50% of eligible inquiries resolved without human intervention.
  - Active hiring across engineering, customer success, sales, product, and GTM roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up with AI, rather than bolting AI onto legacy platforms like Zendesk or Intercom.
- **B2B-specific channel support**: First platform to natively integrate Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, and community channels (Discord) – critical for B2B workflows.
- **Account Intelligence**: Proactive detection of churn risk, feature requests, and renewal signals from support conversations, shared across support, success, and sales.
- **Compliance & security**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliant, making it suitable for regulated industries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening AI automation (agents, knowledge base, routing), expanding omnichannel integrations, and scaling the go-to-market organization to capture more mid-market and enterprise customers migrating off legacy tools (e.g., Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, Salesforce Service Cloud).
- **Direction for growth**: Become the default support platform for all B2B companies, leveraging AI to handle routine issues while empowering agents with full context.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven team building the “first B2B support platform,” with a strong engineering background (founders from Caltech, Airbnb, Samsara, Affinity). Fast-paced startup environment.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: In-person at the San Francisco office.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Cutting-edge AI work; chance to shape product from early stage; exposure to founders and experienced leaders (e.g., Head of Engineering from Samsara). High growth means opportunity for impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [usepylon.com](https://www.usepylon.com/)
2. [Pylon Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pylon-labs)
3. [Y Combinator – Pylon](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pylon-2)
4. [LinkedIn – Pylon](https://www.linkedin.com/company/usepylon)

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