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# Head of Finance at Photon

- **Company:** Photon
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/photon/am9icG9zdDrwwMvIgY6GJa-lM7CTc2VP

## Job description

Company Mission Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, giving patients the freedom to choose the pharmacy that works best for them. We’re building a simpler, more transparent prescription experience for patients, providers, and pharmacies.

Who We’re Looking For Photon’s finance function is a blank spreadsheet, and we’re looking for the person who fills it in. This role covers everything: the model, the plan, the close, pricing and unit economics, fundraising, spend, and the systems that hold it all together. You’ll be the strategic partner the executive team leans on for decisions about pricing, growth, and capital — and the person who makes sure the books are clean.

We’re looking for someone who has done this before, or grew up in this kind of environment: a growing venture-backed company where finance meant covering everything, not owning one slice of it. You’ve gone well beyond FP&A — you’ve supported a fundraise, rebuilt pricing, run the close, or figured out what the business actually earns on each customer — and you want to own the whole picture.

Fair warning: this is a hands-on role. There’s no team underneath you (yet), so you’ll build the model, run the close and do the analysis yourself. You’ll also be one of the most important strategic voices in the room, turning messy operating data into a clear point of view and helping the team act on it.

You’re rigorous and fast, low-ego, unbothered by ambiguity, and get a little thrill from building the plumbing before the house needs it. In Photon terms: you know you have to make the rice before you get to touch the fish.

Core Responsibilities

- Own Photon’s operating model, budget, and forecasts — the source of truth leadership uses for decisions on hiring, burn, and runway
- Own financial reporting for leadership and investors — the metrics, updates, and materials that keep everyone working from the same numbers
- Build a clear picture of Photon’s unit economics and use it to shape pricing, contract structure, and go-to-market decisions alongside Sales and Partnerships
- Run annual planning and the operating cadence: KPIs, budget-vs-actuals, and monthly business reviews
- Own accounting operations — monthly close, audit, tax, and the partners that support them — and keep the books clean and timely
- Build the finance infrastructure Photon needs to scale: systems, spend controls, and processes that hold up at twice the headcount
- Lead fundraising readiness: investor-grade metrics, model, data room, and narrative, partnering with the executive team through our next raise
- Take on strategic projects as they come up: new channel or market analysis, build-vs-buy decisions, the economics of major contracts

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience, with early-career training in investment banking, management consulting, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment
- 2+ years in a finance, strategic finance, or BizOps role at a venture-backed startup through a period of significant growth
- Ownership beyond FP&A — direct experience with at least two of: fundraising, pricing or unit economics, board reporting, cash and capital planning
- Hands-on experience owning or managing accounting operations: monthly close, audit or tax preparation, and outside accounting partners
- You build and maintain complex financial models yourself, and can explain them simply to a non-finance audience
- Clear, confident communicator — you can hold a point of view under pressure and explain the numbers to anyone at the company
- Excitement to work from our Brooklyn office at least three days per week

## Preferred Qualifications

- Built finance infrastructure from scratch at an early-stage company: systems, close process, spend controls
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, marketplace, or payments businesses — anywhere transaction economics get complicated
- Experience modeling enterprise contracts: pilots, implementation fees, multi-year deals
- Supported a priced equity round (Series A or later), including diligence and the data room

## Why Join Us

Photon is reimagining how prescriptions move through the healthcare system—making the experience simpler, faster, and more transparent for patients, providers, and pharmacies alike. You’ll:

- Build Photon’s finance function from the ground up and decide what it becomes
- Own the numbers behind every major decision, working directly with the founder/executive team
- Take on a genuinely hard modeling problem: prescription and pharmacy economics are complex and opaque, and making them transparent is the point
- Work on a problem almost everyone you know has experienced, and help fix a system that’s broken in ways most people just accept
- Join a team that gives a shit — about the work, about each other, and about doing things the right way. High trust, high standards, and people who actually like spending time together

## Our Values

🍕🐀 Be a Pizza Rat – We’re ambitious subway dwellers. It’s our slice and we’re not letting go. 🍚🍣 Make Rice – We don’t prepare fish until we’ve mastered rice. Quality is in details. 🛰️🌎 Put it in Orbit – We know success happens well after lift-off. The rocket isn’t our mission. 🔍🏴‍☠️ Seek Buried Treasure – We’re digging in unexpected places. Our adventure has meaning. 🍄🌒 Grow in Darkness – We’re thriving amidst forest decay. Our day in the sun will come.

Pay Transparency The estimated base salary for this role is 200,000-230,000 USD annually. Actual compensation will depend on skills, qualifications, and experience, and includes equity and benefits. At our stage, we place significant value on equity as part of total compensation.

## About Photon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Photon is a global leader in AI and digital solutions, partnering with 40% of the Fortune 100 to accelerate digital transformation through AI management, digital innovation, product design, and engineering excellence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (co-founder and CTO mentioned but names not disclosed)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Digital transformation services, AI solutions, digital experience design, software engineering, and consulting.
- Target customers: B2B – large enterprises, specifically 40% of the Fortune 100 (including CIOs and digital leaders).
- Mission or purpose statement: “Make tomorrow happen today” by combining AI management, digital innovation, product design thinking, and engineering excellence to create transformational change.

## Products & Services
- **Digital HyperExpansion® (DHX) Framework**: Photon’s proprietary methodology for enterprise digital transformation, covering data technology, customer platforms, APIs & microservices, and big data / AI-enabled predictive analytics.
- **AI & Agentic AI Solutions**: Design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures, and governed AI platforms – including Senior Agentic AI Engineer roles and Principal Data Scientist teams.
- **Mobile & Web Experience Design**: State-of-the-art mobile apps and multi-platform user experiences powered by the latest digital technologies.
- **Digital Engineering & Infrastructure**: Microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and API-led integration.
- **Strategy Consulting**: Creative design and technology strategy to help enterprises become technology platforms.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Works with 40% of the Fortune 100; employs 7,500+ digital engineers globally (as of latest website); serves over 1 billion+ touchpoints per day.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (no funding rounds found); partners include Fortune 500 companies across industries.
- **Growth Signals**: Global presence with 14 offices worldwide; headcount >6,000 (PDF) to >7,500 (website); active hiring for advanced AI roles (Senior Agentic AI Engineer, Principal Data Scientist, Agentic AI Architect); expanding AI service lines.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Differentiators**:
  - Proprietary **Digital HyperExpansion®** framework that combines AI management, digital innovation, design thinking, and engineering at scale.
  - Deep penetration into Fortune 100 – works with 40% of them, indicating high trust and repeat business.
  - End-to-end capability: from strategy and creative design to engineering, data science, and AI agents.
  - Global delivery model: over 7,500 engineers across 14 offices, enabling onshore/offshore flexibility.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Accelerating AI adoption for enterprise clients, particularly in Agentic AI, Generative AI, and large-scale multi-agent systems. Emphasizing “Digital HyperExpansion” as the third wave of digital growth. Focus on data-driven lifecycle management, AI quality and evaluation, and governed enterprise AI platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Open culture” with direct communication, no hierarchy, and emphasis on collaboration. Continuous learning via **Photon University** – training programs to advance skills. Career growth opportunities working with renowned enterprise brands and objective evaluations.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Flexible – jobs mention “Onsite / Offshore (Flexible)” and offices in multiple US cities (Dallas, NYC, Chicago), London, San Francisco, etc. Specific roles may be onsite or hybrid depending on client needs.
- **Notable perks**: Family medical leave, 401(k) offering, family/childcare benefits. Benefits listed on Built In San Francisco include family + childcare benefits and 401(k).

## Sources
1. [photon.com](https://www.photon.com/)
2. [photon.com/careers](https://www.photon.com/careers)
3. [Photon Company Overview PDF](https://photon.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/Photon%20Company%20Overview.pdf)
4. [dice.com](https://www.dice.com/company-profile/86e6f6e9-556e-59d8-a109-e78c232538e8?companyname=Photon)
5. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/photon)

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