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# Strategic Finance Lead at Granola

- **Company:** Granola
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $170k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola/8085cd8a-e18c-4fb6-a3eb-5506812ade2b

## Job description

## About Us

We're Team Granola 👋 Granola is an AI-powered notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. What started as a better way to take notes has become a shared workspace that helps teams capture, organize, and act on what matters. We're building a product people genuinely love and are fortunate to work with many of the world's most ambitious companies. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to help build the financial operating rhythm that supports the next stage of the company.

## About the Role

We’re looking for our first Strategic Finance hire to help build the financial operating rhythm behind Granola’s next stage of growth. You’ll help build the financial operating rhythm of the company, owning core financial planning, analysis and strategic decision support. You’ll partner closely with leaders across the company to understand what’s happening in the business, identify the drivers behind performance and help us make better decisions about where we invest. This is a highly hands-on role with significant ownership from day one.

## What You’ll Do

- Own our company model and forecasting. Build and maintain the financial model that connects revenue, headcount, operating expenses, gross margin and cash, and continuously improve our ability to forecast the business.
- Lead company planning. Drive our company planning and ongoing forecasting cadence, partnering with leaders across the business to translate operating plans into financial outcomes and inform resource allocation.
- Help leaders understand performance. Partner with functional leaders on budgets, forecasts and performance, digging into the underlying drivers and turning them into clear insights and actions.
- Deepen our understanding of unit economics. Build a robust view of the economics of our business, including gross margin, customer acquisition, retention and sales efficiency, and identify opportunities to improve them.
- Drive strategic analysis and decision-making. Build scenarios and frameworks to evaluate investments, pricing, headcount and other important company decisions.
- Build the Strategic Finance foundation. Help establish the models, processes and operating cadences that allow Finance to become an increasingly effective partner as Granola scales.

## What We're Looking For

Background & Experience

- 5-8 years of experience across Strategic Finance, FP&A, Corporate Finance or similar roles.
- Experience owning financial models, forecasting and planning processes in a high-growth technology company.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to independently structure and solve ambiguous problems.
- Experience partnering directly with functional and executive leaders and translating analysis into clear recommendations.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models and the operating metrics that drive growth and unit economics.
- A track record of taking ambiguous strategic questions through to structured analysis, clear conclusions and recommended actions.

## Skills and traits

- Hands-on builder comfortable moving between detailed analysis and macro view of what matters most.
- Analytical and commercially minded problem solver who enjoys getting deep into the numbers while staying focused on what they mean for the business.
- Independent and low ego. You can take an ambiguous question, figure out how to approach it and drive the work through to a clear conclusion.
- Strong business partner and clear, concise communicator who builds trust across functions, challenges assumptions constructively and makes complicated analysis understandable.

## About the Opportunity

We are living in the most exciting time for tool builders since Engelbart's demo in 1968 and we want to assemble the best crew to build this future together. Our compensation philosophy is to hire the best people in the market and pay them accordingly with salary, variable, and equity. Lastly, we think amazing talent comes from all kinds of life journeys and experiences. If what is written above speaks to you, whether you look like a fit on paper or not, please reach out.

## Compensation

$170k - $200k + equity and benefits! Our compensation philosophy is to hire the best people in the market and pay them accordingly with salary, variable, and equity.

## About Granola

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Granola is an AI-powered meeting notepad that runs locally on a user’s device, transcribing and generating structured notes from meetings without requiring a visible bot to join the call.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Chris Pedregal (CEO) and Sam Stephenson (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered productivity software, Meeting Intelligence, Enterprise AI Context Layer
- **Target customers**: Primarily B2B — serving knowledge workers in sales, legal, executive functions, and enterprise teams. Named customers include Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon, and Mistral AI.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build tools that help humans better" — the company’s goal is to make meetings more productive without intruding on human connection.

## Products & Services
- **Granola (Core Product)**: An AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. It runs locally on macOS and Windows, captures audio from the user’s computer without a bot joining the call, and uses meeting context (calendar, past notes) to generate Notion-style notes, action items, and follow-ups. Available for iPhone as well.
- **Granola Chat**: Lets users query their entire conversation history using Claude, GPT, or Gemini.
- **Spaces**: Team-oriented feature for organizing, sharing, and searching contextual notes across meetings and channels.
- **Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server**: An API layer that allows other AI tools to query Granola’s meeting context, positioning it as a "context layer" for agentic AI workflows.
- **Enterprise API**: SSO, SCIM, and consent-based data management for large organizations. The core product is free for unlimited meeting notes (notes older than 30 days require an upgrade).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (Series C, March 2026 — a sixfold increase from its $250 million valuation less than a year prior)
- **Total Funding**: Over $192 million ($67M prior to Series C, plus $125M Series C)
- **Key Metric**: High engagement and viral growth within companies — product-market fit described as "genuine" by users
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital, and angel investors including Mike Krieger (Instagram), David Lieb (YC Partner), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Tobi Lutke (Shopify), Karri Saarinen (Linear), Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny's Newsletter), Des Traynor (Intercom), Soleio, and Charlie Songhurst.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid valuation growth (6x in under a year), explicit enterprise pivot with a robust API, MCP server, and large named enterprise customer base.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Stealth recording (no bot)**: Granola is the only major meeting intelligence tool that captures audio from the user’s computer rather than sending a visible bot into the call — a key differentiator for professionals who find bots intrusive.
- **Context-layer strategy**: By offering an MCP server and APIs, Granola positions itself as a cross-platform "memory" for all AI agents and tools, rather than a siloed note-taking app.
- **High user love & viral growth**: Users report genuine product-market fit, with the product spreading virally within companies.
- **Strong design and product thinking**: Founded by a design-led team in London, with deep experience in product and engineering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise expansion**: The $125M Series C is explicitly earmarked for building out enterprise features (SSO, SCIM, consent-based data management) and winning large organizations.
- **Agentic AI integration**: Granola is investing heavily in becoming the "context layer" for other AI tools — its MCP server and APIs allow any agent to query meeting history, making it a critical data infrastructure play.
- **Growth in London & US**: Hiring across Engineering, Design, Sales, and Operations in both London and San Francisco — building out a US revenue team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, tight-knit in-person team (~50 employees as of early 2026) with total ownership over your area of the product. Described as "high trust" with visionary founders. Office is beautiful, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided daily.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Office-first with flexibility built in — 5 days in office by default, but flexible for life circumstances. Remote up to four weeks a year.
- **Notable Perks**:
    - Health Insurance (AXA for UK family; Aetna/Kaiser for US with dental & vision)
    - 20 weeks primary / 12 weeks secondary parental leave (fully paid)
    - 401(k) 100% match on first 3% of salary (US); 7% matching via Penfold (UK)
    - Daily fresh lunch (office)
    - Gym Boost: monthly contribution toward gym membership
    - L&D Budget: annual budget for courses, books, conferences
    - Life Insurance: 4x salary (UK); 2x up to $750k (US)
    - Income Protection: 75% salary (UK); 60% up to $12k/month (US)
    - Time Off: 25 days + bank holidays (UK); Unlimited PTO (US)
    - Commuter Benefits: tax-free bike purchase (UK); pre-tax transit/parking (US)
    - "Casa Granola" team getaway house in Majorca for offsites/deep work.
- **Engineering Culture**: AI-heavy, product-engineering focus. Roles include AI Engineer, Product Engineers (Backend, Full Stack, Windows), Design Engineer, and Security Engineer. Engineers work directly with co-founders on roadmap.

## Sources
1. [granola.ai/jobs](https://www.granola.ai/jobs)
2. [granola.ai](https://www.granola.ai/)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/granola)
4. [jobsbyculture.com/companies/granola](https://jobsbyculture.com/companies/granola)
5. [thenextweb.com/news/granola-series-c-meeting-ai-enterprise-context](https://thenextweb.com/news/granola-series-c-meeting-ai-enterprise-context)

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