--- title: 'Head of Finance H/F at Marso Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-finance-h-f-marso-robotics-paris-h0ezefmwnq68' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Head of Finance H/F at Marso Robotics - **Company:** Marso Robotics - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marsorobotics/5af3d6c3-bcd9-43c1-a8f7-75415fd6b037 ## Job description We are looking for our Head of Finance to progressively build out the finance function from the ground up. ## Responsibilities Governance & Strategic Alignment - Help design, build and safeguard the company's governance cadence, ensuring continuity between strategic planning, leadership decisions, company-wide communication and execution - Partner with the Chief of Staff to connect the Business Plan, budget, COMEX and Board into one consistent governance and decision-making framework, extending to Marso's team management Financial Planning & Business Partnering - Build and own the RaaS unit economics model: robot revenue, cost, fleet financing, operational costs, support and contribution margin - Translate the Business Plan into financial terms: P&L, cash, runway, financing needs, resource allocation, scenarios and consistency with the budget - Partner with the AI front-end developer to build the performance management system, connecting financial data with sales, product, delivery, robot and People metrics into a shared source of truth and a real steering cockpit - Oversee the financial governance of Flow (transparent salary house and equity), ensuring consistency between levels, compensation, hiring, equity and budget Financial Operations & Reporting - Build the Finance function and supervise accounting, tax and financial administration with external partners - Drive the reliability, automation and clarity of financial reporting - Lead the annual budget process, reforecasts and tracking of actuals against budget Financing & Cash - Prepare the path to Series A - Manage cash, runway and the company's financing trajectory - Prepare financial materials required for investors, bank financing and non-dilutive funding Profile - Blends strategic finance, FP&A, business operations and governance experience, with a genuine ownership mindset - Autonomous, hands-on and capable of building structure in a fast-moving environment - Strong data and AI fluency, including tools such as Claude, to automate analysis and sharpen forecasts - Able to challenge decisions, communicate clearly and work effectively with founders and varied stakeholders - 10-12 years of experience, including at least 4-5 years in consulting. Prior experience in an industrial or hardware business, as well as in a growing startup, is a strong plus. - Solid financial fundamentals, with sufficient accounting and tax literacy to supervise these areas effectively We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of background. Responsabilités Governance & Strategic Alignment - Aider à concevoir, construire et garantir la cadence de gouvernance de l'entreprise, en assurant la continuité entre planification stratégique, décisions de direction, communication à l'échelle de l'entreprise et exécution - Travailler avec le Chief of Staff pour relier le Business Plan, le budget, le COMEX et le Board au sein d'un cadre de gouvernance et de décision cohérent, en l'étendant au management des équipes de Marso Financial Planning & Business Partnering - Construire et détenir le modèle d'unit economics RaaS : revenus et coûts des robots, financement de la flotte, coûts opérationnels, support et marge de contribution - Traduire le Business Plan en termes financiers : P&L, cash, runway, besoins de financement, allocation des ressources, scénarios et cohérence avec le budget - Travailler avec le développeur AI front-end pour construire le système de performance management, en connectant les données financières aux métriques commerciales, produit, delivery, robot et People au sein d'une source de vérité commune et d'un véritable cockpit de pilotage - Superviser la gouvernance financière de Flow (grille salariale et equity), en assurant la cohérence entre niveaux, rémunérations, recrutements, equity et budget Financial Operations & Reporting - Construire la fonction Finance et superviser la comptabilité, la fiscalité et l'administration financière avec les partenaires externes - Renforcer la fiabilité, l'automatisation et la lisibilité du reporting financier - Piloter le processus budgétaire annuel, les reforecasts et le suivi du réalisé par rapport au budget Financing & Cash - Préparer la trajectoire vers la Series A - Gérer le cash, le runway et la trajectoire de financement de l'entreprise - Préparer les éléments financiers nécessaires aux investisseurs, aux financements bancaires et au non-dilutif Profil - Allie expérience en strategic finance, FP&A, business operations et gouvernance, avec un véritable sens de l'ownership - Autonome, opérationnel(le) et capable de structurer dans un environnement qui évolue vite - Forte aisance avec la data et l'IA, y compris des outils comme Claude, pour automatiser les analyses et fiabiliser les forecasts - Capacité à challenger les décisions, à communiquer clairement et à travailler efficacement avec les fondateurs et des interlocuteurs variés - 10 à 12 ans d'expérience, dont au moins 4-5 ans en conseil. Une expérience préalable dans une entreprise industrielle ou hardware, ainsi que dans une startup en croissance, est un vrai plus - Bonne maîtrise des fondamentaux financiers, avec une littératie comptable et fiscale suffisante pour superviser ces sujets efficacement Nous sommes engagés dans la construction d’une équipe diverse et inclusive. Toutes les candidatures qualifiées sont les bienvenues et nous accordons une attention particulière aux compétences, à l’impact et à la capacité à contribuer au projet. ## About Marso Robotics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Marso Robotics develops autonomous companion robots for logistics and warehouse operations, designed for rapid deployment without complex infrastructure changes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed/Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with presence in the Netherlands) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Louis Caudrelier (CEO), Nicolas Texier (CTO), Thibault Moraisin (CPO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Logistics Automation - **Target customers**: B2B — logistics operators, warehouse managers, and supply chain companies with brownfield facilities where 93% of flows remain manual - **Mission or purpose**: "Autonomous robots designed and built for the field, not the lab" — tackling the hardest manual tasks in logistics that resist traditional automation ## Products & Services - **Autonomous Warehouse Robots**: Mobile robots combining perception, manipulation, and remote supervision to automate tasks like palletizing, de-palletizing, and container unloading. Deployed as a service (Robotics-as-a-Service) without requiring WMS integration or fixed infrastructure. Robots can be operational in under 24 hours and learn continuously from field operations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Funding**: Not publicly disclosed (early-stage, privately held) - **Key Metric**: Headcount of 13 employees (as of mid-2026), with a monthly growth rate of +15.4% - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Supported by industry operators across AI research, robotics, and large-scale logistics. Selected among the 40 most promising startups at STATION F's "Future 40" program. Winner of Logistique Seine Normandie's second call for innovative projects (June 2026). - **Growth Signals**: - Rapid headcount growth (+15.4% monthly) - Active hiring for a Senior System Engineer role - Opened "MarsHome" — their physical lab/office space for building, testing, and learning - Selected for STATION F, the world's largest startup campus - First partner warehouse deployment (described as "the size of 10 football fields") ## Competitive Advantages - **Plug-and-play deployment**: Robots deploy in less than 24 hours without WMS integration — a stark contrast to traditional automation that requires months of infrastructure changes - **Embodied AI stack**: Proprietary control system combining transformer-based action models, reinforcement learning-trained behaviors, and teleoperation fallback for industrial-grade precision - **Brownfield-first approach**: Designed specifically for existing warehouses where 93% of flows remain manual, rather than requiring greenfield facilities - **Founding team experience**: The team previously built and deployed industrial robotics at scale (thousands of robots, hundreds of millions in revenue) at Exotec, Parrot, and Decathlon - **Continuous learning**: Every deployment improves the system; what's learned in the field is reused to upgrade existing robots and accelerate new features ## Strategic Focus - Current priorities: Validating real-world use cases with industrial partners (palletizing, de-palletizing, container unloading); building toward production-ready deployments; scaling the engineering team - Growth direction: Moving from pilot deployments to production-scale operations, expanding the autonomous capabilities of their robot platform through continuous field learning ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: Deep technical focus on embodied AI, robotics, and real-world autonomy. The team includes founders with hands-on experience at Exotec, Parrot, and Decathlon - **Work environment**: "MarsHome" is a dedicated space for building, testing, and iterating — a hands-on culture that values prototyping over theory - **Team composition**: Highly technical — 27% of the team are founders, and 27% are in specialist/engineering roles. Small, agile team of ~13 people - **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company with rapid growth (+15.4% monthly headcount increase) — new hires will have significant ownership and impact - **Location**: Based at STATION F in Paris (world's largest startup campus) with a presence in the Netherlands - **Current open role**: Senior System Engineer — a critical senior position focused on building autonomy in warehouse environments ## Sources 1. [marsorobotics.com](https://marsorobotics.com/) 2. [LinkedIn - Marso Robotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/marsorobotics/) 3. [nordic9.com](https://nordic9.com/companies/marso-robotics/) 4. [Logistique Seine Normandie](https://www.logistique-seine-normandie.com/marso-robotics-robots-logistiques-autonomes-avec-ia-embarquee/) 5. [github.com/marso-robotics](https://github.com/marso-robotics) 6. 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