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title: 'Senior Accounting Manager at Specter'
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# Senior Accounting Manager at Specter

- **Company:** Specter
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/a1e39d72-d830-4411-b75c-32ad6c17b2be

## Job description

## About Specter

Specter’s mission is to help customers automate the physical world.

Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments. Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera, from security incidents (e.g. perimeter intrusion, theft, LPR), to safety monitoring (e.g. PPE detection, injured people), to operational efficiency (e.g. material tracking, congestion monitoring). We offer both long range wireless and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.

Specter has proven success across several verticals and is now scaling quickly. The company’s operating system is being built now: the financial discipline to plan and allocate resources, the compliance and vendor processes required to serve high-stakes customers, and the operating cadence that helps leadership make better decisions faster.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Accounting Manager to build and own the accounting function from the ground up. This is the company’s first senior accounting hire. You will report into finance leadership and serve as the foundation on which Specter’s financial controls, reporting, and accounting infrastructure are built as we scale.

This is not a role where you inherit a team and maintain existing systems. Today, there is no accounting organization. You will build it: the processes, the controls, the close, the systems, and eventually the team. Initially, you will personally own much of the execution, and over time you will hire a team. Your main objectives are to improve reporting, strengthen controls, and scale the function to support a growing hardware business.

Specter designs, manufactures, and deploys physical products. The accounting complexity is meaningful: inventory, cost of goods, contract manufacturers, fixed assets, production tooling, and multi-element revenue arrangements. The ideal candidate is energized by that complexity and wants to build the systems to drive flawless execution.

## What You Will Do

- Own the monthly close end to end: journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial statement preparation
- Build and maintain inventory accounting, cost accounting, and manufacturing accounting processes to support a scaling hardware business
- Build the reporting systems and infrastructure that accounting and finance need to operate, and coordinate with other systems across the company
- Establish internal controls and accounting policies appropriate for a venture-backed company preparing for future audits and growth
- Improve AP/AR processes and support cash management alongside finance leadership
- Produce accurate, timely financial reporting for leadership, the board, and investors
- Work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering to ensure financial data reflects the reality of the business
- Coordinate tax compliance with external tax advisors, including federal, state, and sales tax obligations across multiple jurisdictions
- Manage annual audit preparation and coordinate with external audit firms
- Hire and manage a team of accountants as the company’s growth continues to accelerate

## What We Are Looking For

- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with meaningful time spent in hands-on, execution-heavy roles
- CPA strongly preferred. Big Four public accounting background is a plus, particularly with manufacturing or hardware clients
- Experience with inventory accounting, manufacturing accounting, and cost accounting in a hardware or physical-product environment
- Experience implementing or owning an ERP system
- Experience managing or supporting annual financial audits
- Comfort operating with limited structure and building processes from scratch
- Strong ownership mentality: you do the work, not just manage the work
- Ability to work cross-functionally with non-finance teams (operations, engineering, supply chain) and translate between operational and financial realities
- Experience at a venture-backed or high-growth company is a plus

## About Specter

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Specter builds and deploys long-range wireless sensing networks with AI-powered real-time alerts and semantic search, creating the perception layer for the physical world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (likely US based on website language and job postings)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Physical security, critical infrastructure monitoring, industrial IoT, real-time situational awareness
- Target customers: Enterprise and government – including energy companies, data centers, construction firms, ports, stadiums, industrial facilities, and campuses
- Mission statement: "Creating a Software Defined Physical World" – providing instant awareness through real-time alerts, semantic search, and a map-based view of every event

## Products & Services
- **Specter Platform**: A SaaS-based physical intelligence platform that ingests data from long-range wireless sensors (video, thermal, acoustic) and applies general AI (natural language alerts) to detect events such as unauthorized access, safety hazards, equipment anomalies, fires, spills, and perimeter breaches. Features include semantic search, live and historical event detection, and complete situational awareness dashboards.
- **Long-Range Wireless Sensing Network**: Proprietary hardware and software for rugged, wide-area coverage without trenching – deployed across refineries, deserts, offshore platforms, construction sites, and other harsh environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not publicly available; company is actively hiring (Software Engineer – Systems listing) and has a live product across multiple industry verticals.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Recent website updates as of June 2026; expanding to new use cases (energy, data centers, construction, ports, stadiums); job openings indicate scaling engineering team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Long-range wireless sensing** that eliminates blind spots without trenching or on-site personnel – a differentiator for remote and harsh environments.
- **General AI with natural language alerts** – users set and query alerts in plain English, lowering the barrier for security and operations teams.
- **Multimodal sensing** (video, thermal, acoustic) combined with real-time analytics for high-fidelity event detection (e.g., PPE compliance, spills, equipment theft, person-down incidents).
- Focus on **critical infrastructure** where downtime or security gaps carry high stakes, creating deep vertical-specific moats.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding horizontal deployment across energy, data centers, construction, logistics, and campus security.
- Deepening AI capabilities through real-time semantic search and event detection to replace traditional CCTV monitoring.
- Building a “software-defined physical world” that unifies disparate sensors into a single intelligent layer.

## Why Work Here
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI + IoT systems that monitor real-world infrastructure at scale.
- Engineering culture likely emphasizes distributed systems, computer vision, edge computing, and high-reliability software (based on job description for Software Engineer – Systems).
- Fast-paced startup environment with a clear product-market fit across multiple verticals.
- Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated; job posting does not specify location, but likely offers flexibility.

## Sources
1. [specter.co](https://specter.co/)
2. [specter.co/product](https://specter.co/product)
3. [specter.co/industries](https://specter.co/industries)
4. [specter.co/features](https://specter.co/features)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Software Engineer – Systems](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/fe26a690-7934-46f4-bce2-8d8c5495a0dc)

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