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title: 'Strategic Finance & Operations at Lightfield'
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# Strategic Finance & Operations at Lightfield

- **Company:** Lightfield
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightfield/1b49d511-db9e-4ab9-8de0-58f4a261db14

## Job description

## About Lightfield

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks. We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. The market agrees. Over 5,000 companies have used Lightfield since we launched in November, making us the fastest-adopted product in our category. We are backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and our founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Lightfield, our team worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.

## About the Role

We’re looking for someone to join our Strategic Finance & Operations team and help build the financial and operating infrastructure for Lightfield’s next stage of growth. You’ll work directly with our Head of Operations and closely with our CEO and leadership team across strategic finance, company planning, and business operations. You’ll help build the metrics, models, analyses, and processes we use to understand the business and make better operating decisions. This is a great opportunity for someone with strong financial and analytical training who wants to move from analyzing businesses to helping build one.

## What You’ll Do

- Build operating metrics and reporting. Develop and maintain the dashboards, KPIs, and reporting we use to understand performance across revenue, growth, customers, spend, and efficiency.
- Support forecasting and planning. Help build and maintain financial models, forecasts, budgets, and headcount plans, and analyze performance against plan
- Run strategic analyses. Dig into company-level questions, bring together data from across the business, and turn analysis into clear insights that inform decisions
- Improve spend visibility. Build reporting around company spend, identify trends and opportunities, and provide the analysis needed to make better spending decisions
- Build operating infrastructure. Help establish the systems, processes, and reporting cadences we need to run the company with greater rigor as we grow
- Work cross-functionally. Partner with teams across the company to gather data, understand performance, and execute on cross-functional projects
- Support high-priority projects. Work directly with the Head of Operations on strategic, financial, and operational priorities as they emerge

## Who You Are

- You have 2-5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, growth investing, strategic finance, or another highly analytical environment
- You have strong financial modeling and analytical skills and can build analyses from scratch
- You’re comfortable taking ambiguous questions, structuring the problem, and working with imperfect data to get to an answer
- You have strong business judgment and can turn complex analyses into clear, actionable takeaways
- You’re excited to work in a fast-moving startup environment and get into the weeds; prior startup or operating experience is a plus, but not required

## Benefits & Perks

- Competitive salary
- Meaningful early equity
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- 3 weeks of PTO
- 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
- 3 months of paid family leave
- Wednesdays work from home
- Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
- 401k plan
- Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

## About Lightfield

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that automatically captures every customer interaction from email, calendar, and meetings, and builds a living world model of your company’s relationships and decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Henri Liriani, Keith Peiris

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI-native CRM / Sales & Customer Relationship Management
- Target customers: B2B sales teams, customer-facing organizations (SMB to mid-market)
- Mission or purpose statement: “Help founders build better businesses” by creating software that provides deep, continuous customer understanding — a world model of your company starting with your customers. [lightfield.app/company](https://lightfield.app/company)

## Products & Services
- **Lightfield Platform (AI-native CRM)** — An open platform that ingests email, calls, and meetings automatically. It offers:
  - **Natural language agents**: Build agents with prompts (no code) to prospect, manage follow-ups, and coach deals.
  - **Automated data capture**: Every interaction is recorded, attributed, and connected into accounts, tasks, and timelines.
  - **Reasoning & automation**: Ask questions like “which customers asked for this feature?” and get answers with citations; automate pipeline updates, enrichment, and revival emails.
  - **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001. [lightfield.app](https://lightfield.app/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue not disclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 31 employees (+192.3% YoY) [linkedin.com/company/lightfld](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightfld)
  - Active job postings: 16 (up +128.6% YoY)
  - LinkedIn followers: 4,863 (+2709.6% yearly growth)
  - Monthly web traffic: +83.5% (14.2K visits) [same LinkedIn source]
  - Rapid product releases: frequent changelog updates (May/June 2026) with features like API controls, email conversations, custom objects, SSO, and meeting recording. [lightfield.app](https://lightfield.app/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, not retrofitted**: Differs from traditional CRMs by capturing raw interaction data (actual words, chronology, causality) rather than manual summaries or fields.
- **World model approach**: A system that understands what happened, why it happened, and what is likely to happen next — enabling safe, high-quality automation and deep customer insights.
- **Strong security posture**: Holds SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certifications — rare for an early-stage startup.
- **Open platform**: API and MCP server for custom integrations, allowing data to flow in and out freely.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the “world model of your company” by deepening automatic capture, causal reasoning, and agent capabilities.
- Scale go-to-market (hiring a Founding Account Executive, Community Lead) while expanding the platform’s AI and infrastructure teams.
- Maintain compliance and trust as the platform matures (mentioned roadmap includes “Foundations” and “Agents” on the product page).

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact**: Join a team of 31 people (largely technical: 38% engineering/design) and help shape the foundational product. Recent hires come from Tome, Gong, Uber, and other high-growth companies.
- **Remote/hybrid friendly**: Team distributed across US (majority), Canada, and India. [linkedin.com/company/lightfld](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightfld)
- **Engineering culture**: AI/ML deep tech focus — building agents, world models, and reasoning systems. Titles include Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Platform Engineer, AI Product Engineer, and Infrastructure Lead.
- **Growth trajectory**: Headcount more than doubled in the last year, with active hiring across all departments. The company’s mission emphasizes “deep customer understanding,” appealing to builders who want to solve real business problems with AI.
- **Transparent product velocity**: Public changelog shows frequent releases (weekly), indicating a fast-moving, iterative engineering culture.

## Sources
1. [lightfield.app](https://lightfield.app/)
2. [lightfield.app/company](https://lightfield.app/company)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/Lightfield](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Lightfield)
4. [linkedin.com/company/lightfld](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightfld)
5. [lightfield.app/blog/why-we-built-lightfield](https://lightfield.app/blog/why-we-built-lightfield)

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