--- title: 'Strategic Finance at fal' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-finance-fal-san-francisco-fhk7ekcz99yw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Strategic Finance at fal - **Company:** fal - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $180k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fal-ai/bbd1262a-b8bc-4937-bd49-dcd3d2c4e14b ## Job description fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products. As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on. ## About the role We’re looking for a strategic finance partner to join our growing finance team. You will help across all functions - consolidations, KPI reporting and tracking, systems implementation, and ad hoc strategic projects. This is not a typical B2B SaaS business, and fal is not a typical environment: we’re a deliberately flat organization with very few titles or layers, moving extremely fast with data and processes still being built. The ideal person is interdisciplinary, resourceful, low-ego, and energized by ambiguity and a high-urgency pace. ## What you’ll do - Planning: Support company-wide financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes - Models: Help maintain and extend our bottoms-up revenue model across GTM motions and products, track and report actuals vs variances, and surface insights - Systems: Assist with FP&A software implementation and additional finance systems (ERP, procurement) - Reporting: Partner with accounting and data on monthly revenue reporting, ensuring product- and customer-level breakdowns are accurate and usable - Visibility: Build dashboards giving leadership real-time visibility into key performance metrics vs plan and forecast - Make the data usable: Go into the data (e.g. BigQuery), spot what’s wrong, and drive it to a fix with the right people; we’re a lean team without a dedicated analyst, so this is core to the job - Automate: Use AI tools to automate recurring financial workflows ## What we’re looking for Required: - 5+ years of experience across strategic finance, private/growth equity or investment banking with 3+ years of finance operating experience at a high-growth technology company - Able to read and troubleshoot data and validate metrics independently. You don’t need to hand-write SQL, but you must read a table, find what’s wrong, and problem-solve it - Working knowledge of accounting concepts (billings, deferred revenue, AR, rev rec) and able to translate them for non-finance stakeholders - Strong financial-modeling skill; can distill complex data into clear, actionable insights - Strong cross-functional communication and influencing skills - Resourceful, low-ego, high-urgency, and genuinely excited to operate in a fast-changing AI startup with evolving processes Preferred: - Experience in AI, cloud, or large-scale computing infrastructure - Experience implementing a modern FP&A tool - Track record of building/using AI tools to automate financial workflows ## How we work (please read) fal is intentionally flat: there are very few titles, and almost everyone reports to a senior leader rather than a layer of managers. People here are excited about the AI space, take real ownership, move fast, and aren’t focused on titles or hierarchy. If a messy, high-autonomy, build-as-you-go environment sounds energizing rather than stressful, you’ll thrive. ## Why join Work with senior leaders on strategic and high-priority problems at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI. High autonomy, real ownership as you earn it, and competitive compensation, equity, and benefits. ## U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION: fal provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. ## About fal ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: fal provides a serverless generative media platform for developers, enabling lightning-fast inference for image, video, audio, and 3D AI models. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Burkay Gur, Gorkem Yurtseven ## Core Business - **Industry**: Technology, Information, and Internet (Generative AI Infrastructure) - **Target Customers**: B2B — developers, enterprises, and research labs building generative AI applications. - **Mission**: Build the world’s first generative media platform for developers, enabling real-time AI content creation at scale. ## Products & Services - **fal Inference Engine™**: A globally distributed serverless runtime optimized for large ML models on thousands of GPUs (H100, H200, B200). Up to 10x faster than alternatives, with 99.99% uptime and no cold starts. - **Model Gallery**: A library of 1,000+ production-ready generative media models (image, video, audio, 3D) accessible via a unified API and SDKs. - **Dedicated Compute Clusters**: On-demand or reserved GPU clusters for fine-tuning, training, or running custom models, with access to 1000s of Blackwell GPUs. - **fal Compute**: Hourly GPU pricing for dedicated VMs, starting at $1.89/hr for high-end hardware. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (most recent round: $140M Series D) - **Key Metric**: $140M Series D raised - **Total Funding**: At least $163M across rounds (Pre-Seed $9M, Series A $14M, Series D $140M) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 246% year-over-year to ~84 employees - Trusted by 1.5M+ developers and leading enterprises - Powers AI features for public companies and hypergrowth startups - SOC 2 compliant and enterprise-ready ## Competitive Advantages - **Serverless, globally distributed inference engine** purpose-built for generative media, eliminating GPU configuration and cold starts. - **Massive scale**: Capable of handling 100M+ daily inference calls with enterprise-grade reliability. - **Proprietary distributed data-feeding engine** and deep optimization for diffusion models. - **Deep ecosystem**: 1,000+ pre-integrated models and strong partnerships with NVIDIA and top-tier VCs. - **Developer-first experience**: Unified API, SDKs, and per-output pricing model reduce barriers to deployment. ## Strategic Focus - **Global infrastructure scaling**: Expanding GPU fleet across regions to meet accelerating demand for generative media. - **Enterprise adoption**: Strengthening compliance (SOC 2, SSO), private endpoints, and dedicated support for large customers. - **Generative Media Fund**: Investing in the next generation of companies building in the space. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, go-to-market, and operations to keep pace with growth. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: Fast-paced, high-agency environment focused on infrastructure and ML performance. Teams own critical systems from day one. - **Work model**: Primarily in-person at downtown San Francisco office. Remote opportunities available for exceptional candidates. - **Visa sponsorship**: Offered with relocation support to San Francisco. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, health/dental/vision insurance, regular team events and offsites. - **Growth trajectory**: Company is scaling rapidly (headcount +246% YoY) with ambitious goals to 1000x usage, offering significant career growth opportunities. - **Impact**: Work on the foundational platform powering generative AI for millions of users and leading enterprises. ## Sources 1. [fal.ai](https://fal.ai/) 2. [fal Careers](https://fal.ai/careers) 3. [fal Blog - Series D Announcement](https://blog.fal.ai/our-series-d-scaling-fal/) 4. [LinkedIn - fal](https://www.linkedin.com/company/features-and-labels) 5. [Greenhouse Jobs Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fal) ## Other roles at fal - [Community Growth](https://feeny.ai/job/community-growth-fal-san-francisco-kr7qer3t33f9) — San Francisco, CA - [Growth Marketer](https://feeny.ai/job/growth-marketer-fal-san-francisco-2h7dy10cz890) — San Francisco, CA - [Account Manager, Enterprise](https://feeny.ai/job/account-manager-enterprise-fal-san-francisco-wgmhm5avrwrg) — San Francisco, CA - [Program Manager, Global Mobility & Immigration](https://feeny.ai/job/program-manager-global-mobility-immigration-fal-san-francisco-hqkkbr85qv6v) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding GTM Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-gtm-recruiter-fal-san-francisco-6xy1qg08tv1r) — San Francisco, CA - [Product Storyteller](https://feeny.ai/job/product-storyteller-fal-san-francisco-hc3h74xg3nvx) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-kubernetes-infrastructure-fal-united-states-hx4cwfd1p5nz) — United States - [Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-network-infrastructure-fal-united-states-s5jtc2a7y3yv) — United States - [Account Receivable Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/account-receivable-specialist-fal-san-francisco-z3r3jtrmfna2) — San Francisco, CA - [GTM Operations Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-operations-engineer-fal-san-francisco-917bk2d9xyh1) — San Francisco, CA