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title: 'PE Partnerships Lead at Campfire'
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# PE Partnerships Lead at Campfire

- **Company:** Campfire
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/228891d2-815c-45f8-bffb-993b37cb4f76

## Job description

## About Campfire

Campfire is an AI-native ERP built for mid-sized and enterprise companies. We help finance and accounting teams replace spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and disconnected systems with one modern platform. We’re backed by Y Combinator and have offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. We’ve raised more than $100 million, including a $35 million Series A led by Accel.

## About the Role

We're looking for a strategic, well-connected partnerships leader to build our PE partnerships function from the ground up. You'll design and run a scalable program that engages PE firms and PE-backed companies. You'll work closely with our Head of PE & VC Practice, who will support you as you build the function. The ideal candidate has already wokred in a PE Partner role, ideally at a technology startup. Experience selling or partnering around Office of the CFO technology is a strong plus.

## What You'll Do

- Support the launch of the PE Partnerships Funcation
- Build senior relationships with Private Equity Firms
- Create partnership programs that deliver value to both sides, including customer introductions, portfolio company engagement, co-marketing, thought leadership, and strategic intelligence.
- Serve as the main point of contact for PE partners, with a clear and consistent story for why they should work with us.
- Work closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Strategy, and Executive Leadership to turn partnership activity into pipeline, revenue, adoption, and brand impact.
- Build repeatable ways to source and manage opportunities from PE partners, including referral processes, partner enablement, reporting, and feedback loops.
- Develop executive relationship plans for priority firms, and bring in senior leadership where it will strengthen the partnership.
- Host and run our own PE events, and represent the company at industry events, portfolio company forums, and ecosystem gatherings.
- Track market trends, and investment activity to spot strategic opportunities and inform internal decisions.

## What You'll Bring

- 3–7 years of experience in partnerships, business development, Private Equity , startup ecosystems, strategic alliances, or a related commercial role.
- Proven experience in PE partnerships role, function, or program
- Established relationships and credibility with PE firms
- A track record of partnerships that delivered measurable business results.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to earn trust with senior external partners and internal stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
- Data-driven judgment, including the ability to define KPIs and clearly report on partnership performance and impact.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving environment.
- A collaborative, low-ego approach: you're happy to roll up your sleeves, work across teams, and learn from our Head of PE & VC Practice.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise technology, fintech, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, developer tools, or another high-growth technology category. Experience with Office of the CFO technology is strongly preferred.
- Experience building partner referral, co-selling, or ecosystem programs.

## About Campfire

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets.

## Products & Services
- **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync.
- **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.).
- **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation.
- **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction.
- **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more.
- **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls.

All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees
  - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%)
  - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360
  - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on.
- **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance.
- **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves.
- **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features.
- **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies.
- **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City.
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.”
- **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers.

## Sources
1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/)
2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers)
3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire)
4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire)
5. [LinkedIn – Campfire Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetcampfire)

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