About this role
About Chai DiscoveryChai builds the design suite for molecules. We train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction, so scientists can move faster and pursue targets that other methods cannot reach.
AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and Chai is at the forefront of this shift. Leading pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis are adopting our platform to power their drug discovery programs.
We value diverse perspectives and are ready to find greatness in unexpected places.
About the roleWe are looking for our first finance hire. Someone we can trust to own Chai's financial operating system end to end.
Chai is a small, fast-growing company with complex financial operations; heavy spend on frontier AI compute and data acquisition; and pharmaceutical partnerships with complex contracts, revenue recognition, and compliance requirements. As we scale, we need someone who can make sure the machinery underneath the business is exceptionally well run, and give us the visibility to make good decisions.
You will own the quality of our books and close process, build a trusted view of where our money is going, take over the financial model and cash forecast. You'll manage accounting and finance vendors, improving all systems around controls, and lead our audit readiness -- all with a mindset of making complexity disappear and avoiding unnecessary process.
We want someone who notices problems early and promptly drives them through to resolution. Once the foundations are in place, we expect your attention will increasingly turn to allocating capital, modeling major investments, negotiating important relationships and otherwise mapping out the financial implications of our decisions as we grow.
About youYou are a financial generalist sophisticated enough to own the whole machine and hands-on enough to fix any part of it yourself. You are tech savvy and AI fluent, with a bias toward fixing workflows rather than tolerating them.
You've seen early-stage and growth-stage startups from the inside. You've worked alongside great financial minds and have your own ideas about how to do it right. You are detail-oriented, low-ego, and high agency, with a no job too big or too small mindset.
We offerThe opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect & promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly.