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title: 'Strategic Finance at Sent, Inc.'
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# Strategic Finance at Sent, Inc.

- **Company:** Sent, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sent/7216d2e7-f588-48f4-8794-3d5cd47050c0

## Job description

## About Sent

Sent is an infrastructure for sending A2P messages across SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS through a single unified API. Our intelligent routing model automates channel selection based on deliverability and cost, ensuring lower cost and global reach without any channel-specific integrations. We recently closed a $12M Series A backed by Companyon Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, UIF, and others. We're hiring to build the best infrastructure to replace multi-channel messaging stacks.

## About the Role

We're looking for our first Strategic Finance hire - someone who has come up through investment banking, private equity, or a high-growth startup and genuinely enjoys the operational side of finance as much as the analytical one. You might be a banker who's been itching to get inside a company and support better decisions from the inside, a PE associate ready for something more entrepreneurial, or a startup finance person who's ready to go deeper. Whatever the path, you're someone who can turn a messy spreadsheet and a room full of competing priorities into a clear point of view. You'll work directly alongside our leadership team to own our financial model, drive planning cycles, and help every team make smarter decisions with better data. You'll help shape how Sent thinks about growth, investment, and long-term strategy.

## What You'll Do

- Own Sent's financial model end-to-end: revenue, headcount, expenses, and cash flow - keeping it current, credible, and actually used
- Drive planning cycles including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range scenario planning
- Become a trusted thought partner for leaders across the company, helping them structure decisions and tradeoffs through clear financial framing
- Build the reporting and performance tracking infrastructure that keeps leadership aligned on where we are versus plan, and where the biggest risks and opportunities live
- Develop business cases and scenario analyses for new investments, strategic bets, and hiring plans - giving leadership the structured framing they need to move fast
- Analyze vendor spend, headcount costs, and infrastructure expenses to support budgeting decisions
- Build the reporting cadence and templates that will scale as the company grows: board decks, monthly business reviews, department-level P&Ls

## What We're Looking For

- 4+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, or a similarly analytical role at a high-growth company
- Strong financial modeling skills - you've owned a model, not just inherited one. You're fast, precise, and comfortable building from scratch
- The ability to translate complex data into a clear narrative and get stakeholders who don't live in spreadsheets to actually act on what you're showing them
- Exposure to fundraising, board reporting, or investor relations
- You operate with low oversight and high output - you figure out what's needed, build it, and keep moving

Our Commitment to You

- Meaningful equity with high growth potential
- Top-tier medical, dental, vision fully covered
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
- Unlimited PTO
- Beautiful NYC workspace with daily meals and unlimited snacks
- New MacBook Pro + Apple Studio Display
- Wellhub Gold or Equinox stipend

Sent, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

## About Sent, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sent is a unified API platform that enables developers to send messages across SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, and other channels through a single, intelligent interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (December)
- **Founders**: Daniel Vataj (CEO), Betim Drenica (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Messaging infrastructure / Developer tools / Telecommunications
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, engineering teams, and businesses (SMB to Enterprise) that need reliable, multi-channel messaging.
- **Mission or purpose**: To solve the reliability and complexity problems in messaging infrastructure, giving developers a simple, transparent, and dependable way to communicate with users across any channel.

## Products & Services
- **Sent API**: A single RESTful API that abstracts multiple messaging channels (SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, RCS). Handles authentication, rate limiting, retries, and automatic fallback between channels. Includes a sandbox mode for testing.
- **Intelligent Routing Engine**: Real-time decision-making for message delivery based on cost, delivery success rates, recipient preferences, and geographic optimization.
- **Smart Routing & Failover**: Automatically attempts delivery through fallback channels (e.g., SMS → WhatsApp) when the primary channel fails, requiring no additional code.
- **Real-Time Analytics & Webhooks**: Track message lifecycle, delivery confirmations, read receipts (where available), bounce reasons, and aggregate performance metrics.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – conflicting reports: **$5.8M** per company website [sent.dm](https://www.sent.dm/en/company/about-us) vs. **$4.55M** per LinkedIn (Pre-Seed $1.0M + Seed $3.5M) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentdm)
- **Notable Investors**: Bessemer Venture Partners, Urban Innovation Fund (Seed round lead); prior round includes 2 unnamed investors. Advisor/Investor: Brett Perlmutter.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Sent over **550 million** messages (company website)
  - **5,000+** active developers on the platform
  - Headcount grew **650% YoY** to 25 employees (LinkedIn)
  - Opened engineering presence in Kosovo and operations in Botswana
  - **99.9%** uptime SLA guarantee

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified API vs. point integrations**: Single integration for multiple channels, reducing maintenance overhead.
- **Intelligent routing & failover**: Automatic cost and delivery optimization without developer intervention.
- **Developer-first experience**: Clean docs, public roadmap, honest pricing, and transparent error handling.
- **Global by design**: Distributed team (US, Kosovo, Botswana) enables local compliance and carrier relationships.
- **Built by engineers who felt the pain**: Founders personally experienced messaging reliability failures, driving product obsession.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand supported channels (always evaluating new ones like RCS and iMessage).
- Deepen outbound compliance capabilities – hiring for international messaging compliance roles (WhatsApp, RCS).
- Grow self-serve developer funnel through SEO, paid channels, and lifecycle experimentation.
- Strengthen partnership ecosystem (technology, channel, and carrier partners).
- Scale enterprise sales with dedicated Account Executives and Technical Account Managers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Built for developers, by developers” – transparency in pricing, public roadmap, and honest docs. Values: Reliability, Simplicity, Innovation, Transparency.
- **Work model**: In-office at the New York City HQ (157 W…), with a globally distributed team across Kosovo and Botswana. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but roles are listed as “In-Office” on Built In NYC.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on developer experience, automation, and owning the full stack. Team includes Staff Engineer for Networks & Protocols. Open roles currently in compliance, demand generation, partnerships, account executive, and technical account manager.
- **Notable perks**: Startup equity, early employee impact, and opportunity to shape messaging infrastructure for millions of users. Public roadmap and open feedback loop with the developer community.

## Sources
1. [sent.dm – About Us](https://www.sent.dm/en/company/about-us)
2. [LinkedIn – Sent](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentdm)
3. [Built In NYC – Sent Jobs](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/sent/jobs)
4. [Sent API Docs – Platform Overview](https://docs.sent.dm/start/concepts/platform-overview)
5. [Ashby – Sent Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sent)

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- [QA Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/qa-engineer-sent-inc-kosovo-tkzcj2xp1q6a) — Kosovo
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- [Founding Partnerships](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-partnerships-sent-inc-new-york-33jcvcb7qm78) — New York, NY
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