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title: 'VP, Finance at Vori'
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# VP, Finance at Vori

- **Company:** Vori
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori/68decf7b-c98d-44cc-bb0c-5164d97d8728

## Job description

## About Vori

Vori is building modern technology for the grocery industry. The company serves independent and regional grocers with tools that help them run more efficient, data-driven businesses.

## Why this role exists

Vori needs a finance executive who can own both sides of the finance mandate:

- External finance leadership — fundraising, debt financing, investor strategy, board narrative, and capital structure.
- Internal finance infrastructure — FP&A, cash planning, accounting foundation, reporting cadence, controls, and operating discipline.

This is not a ceremonial CFO role. It is a hands-on company-building role for someone who can operate at the executive level while still building the finance function from the ground up. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over y-intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Vori, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes big decisions that shape real outcomes.

Mission The VP, Finance will help Vori make better strategic decisions, raise and allocate capital effectively, and build a finance function that gives the company reliable visibility into performance, runway, and tradeoffs. The right person will be a trusted partner to the CEO and leadership team, a credible voice with investors and the board, and a builder who can turn messy operating reality into clear financial strategy.

## Who you are

You are a hands-on startup VP or CFO-caliber finance leader who has operated in high-growth, venture-backed environments. You have enough strategic finance depth to lead capital markets work and enough operating finance discipline to build the function yourself before the team is large. You are likely to be a strong fit if you are a:

- Builder: A proven builder who has created finance functions from scratch with your own hands, without a large team or mature systems. You also show adept, thoughtful, and creative use of AI in your financial craft.
- Capital Markets Athlete: You have led or materially co-led fundraising with founders and executives. You command respect from capital partners and ensure Vori is an elite steward of other people’s money.
- FP&A Master: exceptional modeling and quantitative rigor; your math ties out and you can defend every claim line by line
- Strategic counterweight to founders: you push back with conviction, allocate capital intelligently, and think in multi-year arcs while driving near-term velocity
- High-IQ, high-EQ, high intensity: you process complexity quickly and move fast with sound judgment
- High Slope: Low ego, high curiosity which is core to our culture. Practical, high-ownership, customer-aware, and exceptionally clear.
- Bonus: Complex hardware experience. You understand the economics of a hardware-enabled business — installs, logistics, support burden.
- Bonus: Investment banking or VC experience. You've been a steward of capital: building models that win investors, evaluating allocations, and credibly communicating the books to capital partners.

## What you’ll own

- Own the operating model end to end. Forecast what is likely to happen, and quickly understand when reality diverges from that forecast. Build the drivers, scenario logic, and planning cadence. Be able to tear down and rebuild the model quickly.
- Know what is happening in the business — fast, and with high confidence. Command unit economics, contribution margin, and payments economics across a complex business (grocery + hardware + AI + payments), with enough accounting fluency to trust the actuals.
- Co-lead the raise. Ensure Vori is an elite steward of others' capital. Design the forward narrative, metrics, and capital structure for the Series C and beyond to IPO. Own the board financial package and represent the company credibly to the board, investors, and capital partners (both equity and debt).
- Own the financial foundation. Treat our financial infra as a product that you own. Build systems that drive clarity, velocity, and effiency.
- Build like an operator. Work with Sales on strategy and help close enterprise deals; work with Product on the roadmap and ship internal tools as needed using AI. Run a smart, automated finance stack so we require less headcount while maintaining rigorous operations.
- Raise the company's operating level. Bring bursts of clarity that a sales leader, an engineer, and a board member can all act on — and give the candid feedback that levels the whole team up.

## About Vori

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vori provides a modern, AI-powered operating system (POS, inventory, ordering, pricing, loyalty) for independent and regional grocery stores.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series unknown, $32.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (initial iOS app built in 12 days)
- **Founders**: Brandon Hill, Tre Kirkman, Robert Pinkerton

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Grocery technology / retail operations software
- **Target customers**: Independent and regional grocery stores (small and mid-sized supermarkets)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Changing the way food moves, from silo to shelf" – democratizing food supply access, reducing food waste, and empowering local entrepreneurs

## Products & Services
- **VoriOS**: The core operating system that combines point-of-sale, inventory management, ordering, pricing, shopper engagement, and reporting into one platform.
- **Point of Sale (POS)**: Modern lane checkout supporting scales, type-2 UPCs, split tenders, EBT, and eWIC.
- **Inventory Management**: Real-time tracking of counts, shrink, and movement; automated reordering based on stock levels.
- **Pricing Automation**: AI-driven margin protection that catches cost changes and adjusts prices automatically before checkout.
- **Shopper Engagement / Loyalty**: Enroll shoppers at checkout, send targeted SMS offers, and track basket lift and order counts.
- **Vori AI Agents**: Autonomous agents (Inventory Agent, Pricing Agent, Marketing Agent) that monitor operations and take actions based on predefined rules.
- **Reporting & Insights**: Unified dashboard for sales, margin, inventory, and loyalty performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $4.0M (estimated); Total funding of $32.3M across 4 rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2020 batch, primary partner Aaron Epstein); also referenced as backed by "Stanford engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Facebook" (implied institutional and angel investors)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 49 employees (+119.4% YoY); LinkedIn followers 6,408 (+67.4% yearly); claims "10k+ hours saved per week" for grocery operators; customer metrics include +22% net sales increase, +10% basket lift among loyalty members, and +20 order count lift.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Single unified platform**: Replaces fragmented legacy POS, inventory, and loyalty systems with one integrated OS designed specifically for grocery workflows.
- **AI agents that automate decisions**: Pricing, inventory, and marketing agents act automatically based on rules, reducing manual labor and protecting margins.
- **Deep grocery domain expertise**: Founded by operators and former store directors; built with input from actual grocers (e.g., first order at Delucchi's Market, first scan at Market at Edgewood).
- **Focus on independent/regional grocers**: Levels the playing field against large retail chains by providing enterprise-grade technology at accessible cost.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling AI agent capabilities (listing "Full Stack Product Engineer - Agentic AI"); expanding sales territory (VP of Sales for East Coast, Territory Account Executive for New York); continuing to reduce food waste and combat food deserts through supply chain data.
- **Direction for growth**: Growing customer base beyond initial independent grocers, deepening integrations with suppliers, and enhancing automation to save operational hours.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include "Think 100x", "Always level up", "Design toward the obvious". Team described as "radically diverse foodies" from companies like SpaceX, Facebook, Whole Foods, Slack, and Airbnb. Bias toward velocity and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Team spread across Bay Area (HQ), New York City, and Puerto Rico. Specific remote/hybrid policy not stated, but roles appear location-flexible.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a mission-driven product that directly impacts local food economies; modern tech stack (React, TypeScript, AI agents); early-stage growth trajectory with significant responsibility.
- **Engineering culture**: "Build the OS for Grocery" – engineers work on real-time data systems, AI, and POS reliability; roles include Forward Deployed Data Engineer and Full Stack Product Engineer.

## Sources
1. [vori.com](https://www.vori.com/)
2. [vori.com/about](https://www.vori.com/about)
3. [vori.com/careers](https://www.vori.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/vori](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vori)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/vori](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vori)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vori)

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