Manager / Director, Finance & Strategy

Abridge · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Operations

This role is for a Finance & Strategy professional at an AI-powered healthcare company. The individual will partner with leadership, drive strategic projects, bridge finance with product/engineering/data science, manage compute costs, support executives, and build AI-powered financial workflows. The role requires strong financial rigor, strategic insight, and operational execution, with experience in consulting, investment banking, or corporate finance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive Strategic Projects & Diligence: Lead zero-to-one market diligence, competitive assessments, supporting creation of our company strategy and roadmap
  2. Bridge Finance and the Builder Org: Embed with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to translate product and technical decisions into financial outcomes
  3. Deepen our COGS & Compute Expertise: Bring horsepower compute cost modeling and unit economics, and take ownership of our strategy and commercial relationships with hyperscalers and neoclouds
  4. Support Executive and Investor Audiences: Contribute to board decks, investor materials, and cross-cutting financial and strategic analyses alongside Finance leadership
  5. Build AI-Powered Financial Workflows: Use AI to automate reporting and forecasting processes, reducing manual work and improving decision-making speed

Skills

Required

  • Financial modeling
  • Strategic planning
  • Market diligence
  • Competitive analysis
  • Product and Engineering collaboration
  • Data Science collaboration
  • Compute cost modeling
  • Unit economics
  • Commercial relationship management
  • Executive communication
  • Investor relations
  • Financial analysis
  • Excel/Google Sheets proficiency
  • Problem scoping
  • Influencing skills
  • Detail-orientation
  • Teamwork

Nice to have

  • NetSuite
  • Looker (or other BI)

What the JD emphasized

  • future leader
  • intersection of financial rigor, strategy, and operational execution
  • former investment professional, strategy consultant, or high-caliber operator
  • ambiguous environments
  • move fast
  • do the most important work of their career
  • zero-to-one market diligence
  • translate product and technical decisions into financial outcomes
  • compute cost modeling
  • ownership of our strategy and commercial relationships
  • AI-Powered Financial Workflows
  • 8-12 years of experience
  • background in consulting, investment banking, investing and/or corporate finance operating roles
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently, scoping ambiguous problems, driving to conclusions, and influencing decisions across an organization without a playbook
  • Analytical rigor
  • significant experience in Excel/Google Sheets
  • Insight generation and communication
  • distill a complex financial model into a three-sentence narrative
  • Detail-orientation
  • 'own the numbers'
  • team-first mentality
  • extreme ownership