--- title: 'Strategic Finance at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-finance-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-zkczbetbpna9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-31' --- # Strategic Finance at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company - **Company:** Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/2e35701d-2e54-4168-bc04-a0d50ed3239d ## Job description ## About AIUC AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI. Our mission is to [Underwrite superintelligence](https://underwriting-superintelligence.com/). We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI. AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us. ## The Role We’re looking for someone to define AIUC’s operational backbone. You’ll bring in-house the finance, HR, legal and vendor operations we currently stitch together. You’ll build the financial infrastructure a fast-scaling company needs: the operating model, board reporting, spend controls and monthly close. In practice this means you will: - Insource and own core finance operations - map every vendor, contractor and outside firm, decide what to keep, cut or bring in-house, and take over HR, legal and vendor admin from the founders. - Centralize spend and financial controls - consolidate spend into one place, set approval thresholds and card & reimbursement policy, and run a monthly close on a fixed calendar. - Own strategic finance and board reporting - build and run the operating model (burn, runway, headcount plan, revenue), produce board packs and financial analysis, and flag variances early with an operational fix attached. - Build the systems layer - replace manual work with tooling, automations and agents, and stand up the scaffolding new business lines need (entity structure, licensing, audit-ready records) as we move into underwriting. Over time, you’ll support the revenue side (invoicing, sales analytics, light pricing work). You’ll own the plan that keeps overhead growing slower than headcount, and you’ll build a small team or fractional bench under you (ops associate, controller, fractional CFO). ## What we’re looking for - 6-10 years of experience with a finance foundation, eg investment banking, PE or Big 4 accounting (a CPA is a plus), and time as the first or an early finance & ops hire at a venture-backed Seed-Series B company. - Built from a blank page - you’ve set up ops or finance infrastructure from scratch, not only operated inside an existing system. - Hands-on beyond finance - you handle payroll, visas, contracts and onboarding, and you enjoy that half of the job as much as the modelling. - Detail-obsessed - leadership and the board can trust your numbers without re-checking them. - Discretion - you treat comp, cap table and board materials as need-to-know without being told. - Urgency and structure - you take an ambiguous ask once and come back with a finished thing. When you cut scope, you cut it deliberately and name the trade-off. - Finds satisfaction in enabling others and takes pride in operations that run invisibly. ## Our Values We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers. - Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard. - Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace. - Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work. - Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions. Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours, apply now. ## Compensation & Perks - Competitive annual salary - Equity (significant part of total compensation) - Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents - Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed - Daily lunch, dinner & snacks ## About Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AIUC builds the confidence infrastructure—standards, audits, and insurance—to certify and insure AI agents, enabling enterprise adoption. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024 based on funding timeline) - **Founders**: Rune Kvist (CEO), Rajiv Dattani, Brandon Kent Wang (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: AI risk & insurance, AI standards & certification, enterprise AI trust infrastructure - Target customers: AI agent companies (B2B) and their enterprise customers (B2B, Enterprise) - Mission or purpose statement: "Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents" and "Underwrite superintelligence" [aiuc.com](https://aiuc.com/) ## Products & Services - **AIUC-1 Standard**: The first comprehensive standard for AI agent safety, covering data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal risks. Companies certify against this standard to earn enterprise confidence. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) - **Insurance for AI Agents**: Backed by the world’s most trusted insurers, covering AI-specific risks up to $50M in losses. Protects AI companies’ enterprise customers financially if an AI agent fails. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) - **Gap Analysis & Technical Testing**: A risk assessment service providing a full overview of an AI agent’s safety, security, and reliability posture, with eval test results available within 24 hours. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) - **Audit Support**: Supports companies through the AIUC-1 certification journey to meet the gold standard. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $15M (Seed round) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Seed round led by Nat Friedman. Investors include Emergence, Terrain, an Anthropic co-founder, and former Chief Information Security Officers at Google Cloud and MongoDB. Customers/partners include Ada (AI customer service leader) and Intercom. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 700% YoY (from ~2 to 16 employees). Monthly growth of 14.3%. Published research paper "Underwriting Superintelligence." Has active job postings for Founding Recruiter and Member of Technical Staff. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiunderwriting) ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover in AI agent insurance**: Building a new category—"confidence infrastructure"—that combines certification and insurance specifically for AI agents. - **Deep domain expertise**: Founders and team have experience at Anthropic, McKinsey insurance, METR, and Center for AI Safety, bringing together AI risk and insurance knowledge. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team) - **Proprietary standard (AIUC-1)**: A comprehensive, technically rigorous standard that goes far beyond typical enterprise requirements (e.g., ISO 42001), covering jailbreaks, prompt injections, data leakage, and hallucinations. - **Backed by top-tier insurers**: Insurance policies are backed by "the world’s most trusted insurers," unlocked by their underwriting. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) - **Strong enterprise traction**: Already working with major players like Ada (which enabled a top social media platform) and Intercom, turning security from a blocker into a differentiator. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product) ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the standard**: Grow AIUC-1 as the de facto industry standard for AI agent certification. - **Expand insurance coverage**: Increase policy limits and coverage scope as AI agents become more capable and deployed in higher-stakes applications. - **Accelerate enterprise adoption**: Remove the "procurement blocker" for AI agents by providing the confidence infrastructure enterprises need. - **Talent acquisition**: Currently ## Other roles at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company - [Talent Coordinator](https://feeny.ai/job/talent-coordinator-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-kzbf3v46vppz) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-security-engineer-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-f6xv1ves8hmf) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Product Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-lead-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-kayz613m991m) — San Francisco, CA - [Talent Partner - Technical](https://feeny.ai/job/talent-partner-technical-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-8k89fshfcstk) — San Francisco, CA - [Office Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/office-manager-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-mkthspryg8vx) — San Francisco, CA - [Value Creation Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/value-creation-lead-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-wh56d64bzje8) — San Francisco, CA - [Research Engineer, AIUC Labs](https://feeny.ai/job/research-engineer-aiuc-labs-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-yk9s77ebayjp) — San Francisco, CA - [Forward-Deployed Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-kgrha3etcyr3) — San Francisco, CA - [AIUC-1 Security](https://feeny.ai/job/aiuc-1-security-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-h7zd7k4grjmh) — San Francisco, CA - [AIUC-1 Standard](https://feeny.ai/job/aiuc-1-standard-artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-san-francisco-zaz7874t71wz) — San Francisco, CA