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title: 'Strategic Finance Manager at Until'
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# Strategic Finance Manager at Until

- **Company:** Until
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$195k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/until/5c5962bb-6a34-4b76-a44f-4e0d9a09824a

## Job description

## What You’ll Do

- Build and own Until’s long-range financial model, operating forecast, and scenario planning across facility buildout, new programs, hiring, and capital needs. Create a model where every number can be traced back to a clear assumption.

- Partner with the Director of Strategy to evaluate go-to-market strategy for a first-of-its-kind product.

- Work closely with the CEO on future fundraising, including financial models, investor materials, diligence support, and data-room management.

- Help shape our capital strategy across venture financing, non-dilutive grants and government awards, and strategic partnerships.

- Own core finance operations as the company grows, including budgeting, vendor spend, cap table administration, 409A coordination, and partnership with our external accounting team.

- Translate complex analyses into clear recommendations for scientists, founders, and investors.

## About You

- You have 4+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, growth equity, corporate development, strategic finance, or another investing- or transaction-intensive role.

- You are an exceptional modeler. You can build a model from scratch, develop well-supported assumptions, and distinguish between precision and false precision.

- You can walk us through a model you built in depth: what question it answered, why you structured it that way, what assumptions mattered most, and what you learned when the first version was wrong.

- You can produce a thoughtful back-of-the-envelope estimate quickly and explain the reasoning clearly to a scientist, founder, or investor.

- You want broader ownership than a traditional finance seat offers. You are equally comfortable fixing a budget line, evaluating a major capital decision, and building a board-ready analysis.

- You are comfortable being a one-person function initially and have the judgment to prioritize the work that matters most.

- You are excited by the science and curious enough to understand how it drives the business.

- You want to bring your finance toolkit to an ambitious, mission-driven company doing meaningful work in the world.

## Benefits

- Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage

- Flexible time off and paid holidays

- Competitive compensation package, including salary and equity

- 401(k) retirement savings plan

- FSA and commuter benefits

- Daily lunch and dinner, plus a variety of snacks

- Monthly learning stipend

- On-site fitness center

- Quarterly team social budget

## About Until

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Until is building reversible cryopreservation technology to bank whole human organs, extending viability from hours to weeks or months, with the long-term goal of whole-body cryopreservation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Laura Deming (CEO, Co-founder) and Hunter Davis Ozawa (CSO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Biotechnology Research, Cryopreservation, Organ Preservation, Hibernation Science
- Target customers: Organ procurement organizations, transplant hospitals, and ultimately patients waiting for organ transplants (B2B with healthcare institutions)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Pressing pause on biological time, for those who need it most." The company aims to solve the organ procurement and matching problem by making donated organs last long enough to reach any patient in need.

## Products & Services
- **Reversible Cryopreservation for Whole Organs**: A technology that cools organs to -130°C using biocompatible cryoprotectants, then rewarms them without damage, turning hours of viability into weeks or months.
- **Cryoprotectant Discovery Engine**: A platform combining physics simulations and machine learning to screen over 250,000 candidate molecules for cryoprotective formulations that stay within a "Biocompatibility Budget" – preventing ice formation without harming cells.
- **Hibernation Research**: Exploratory work on inducing reversible metabolic arrest (hibernation-like states) in organisms, with potential applications in organ preservation and future whole-body suspension.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company, founded 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not disclosed; headcount of 53 employees (as of early 2026) with 9.5% monthly growth and 29 active job postings.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. The company is co-founded by Laura Deming, a noted longevity and biotech investor (founder of the Longevity Fund), which may signal strong investor connections.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid hiring (29 open roles for a 53-person team, +31.8% quarterly job posting growth), high-throughput screening scale (2,903 formulations tested in Q2 2026 alone), and public progress on cryoprotectant discovery.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Combination of Physics Simulation and ML**: Their discovery engine screens millions of molecules in silico before wet-lab validation, dramatically accelerating cryoprotectant development.
- **Biocompatibility Budget Framework**: A novel approach that distributes cryoprotectant toxicity across multiple mechanisms, avoiding the single-dose toxicity that has stymied the field for 50 years.
- **Focus on Whole Organs (not just cells)**: Extending cryopreservation from small samples (IVF, stem cells) to whole human organs – a much harder problem with massive clinical impact.
- **Talent Philosophy**: "Proof of work" culture that hires for demonstrated ability over credentials, with fast promotion for those who earn it.

## Strategic Focus
- **Immediate**: Scale up cryoprotectant discovery and validation to achieve reversible cryopreservation of a whole human organ (likely a kidney or heart) within the next few years.
- **Medium-term**: De-risk and build the foundation for whole-body reversible cryopreservation, enabling "a bridge to future cures" for patients with currently incurable conditions.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring scientists, engineers, and operations staff across physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering disciplines to accelerate R&D.

## Why Work Here
- **Work Environment**: On-site in San Francisco (HQ). The work spans "the edge of physics, biology, and engineering" – from quantum-level simulations to handling real organs. Culture emphasizes "hard problems", rigor, and speed.
- **Culture**: Flat hierarchy, promotion on merit, "proof of work" over credentials. Team includes people from top universities and self-taught scientists alike.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical/dental/vision, 401(k) via Guideline, unlimited PTO, paid parental and disability leave, on-site fitness center, catered lunch and dinner, plus snacks.
- **Engineering & Science**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cryobiology, nanotech, polymer chemistry, and high-throughput automation. The company uses AI tools in hiring but makes final human decisions.

## Sources
1. [untillabs.com/careers](https://www.untillabs.com/careers)
2. [untillabs.com](https://untillabs.com/)
3. [untillabs.com/our-team](https://www.untillabs.com/our-team)
4. [builtin.com/company/until-labs](https://builtin.com/company/until-labs)
5. [jobs.lever.co/until](https://jobs.lever.co/until)

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