Finance & Operations Lead, Inworld AI
USA
$220-285k
+ Bonus & Equity
More information about location
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
Open for applications
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$220-285k
+ Bonus & Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a strong finance background, can operate in ambiguity and is AI-native, using modern tooling to maximize their leverage
- 5+ years of experience across some combination of investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, hedge fund, or top-tier management consulting, ideally with operating experience inside a high-growth company
- Strong accounting and controllership foundation. Comfortable being the internal owner of close, reporting, audit, and tax in partnership with an external accounting firm
- Demonstrated excellence in transactional work, such as M&A, fundraising, or principal investing, including modeling, diligence, valuation, and deal execution
- Sharp commercial instincts and the judgment to know what moves the business, not just what's interesting
- Deep fluency with AI tools and a strong point of view on how to apply them across finance and operations
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy and ambiguity, and the maturity to engage credibly with founders, executives, investors, and board members
- Exceptional analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Fluency in Excel/Sheets and PowerPoint/Slides at a level where modeling and slidebuilding are second nature
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Finance & Ops Lead to partner directly with our founders and leadership team on the most consequential financial and operational decisions facing the company
- This is a senior, high-ownership role at the center of how we run and grow the business, spanning strategic finance, accounting and controllership, corporate development, business analytics, customer and commercial operations, and board and investor engagement
- Strategic Finance: Own the financial model, annual planning and budgeting, and capital strategy of the company. Build the forecasts, scenarios, and unit economics that shape how we invest and where we grow
- Financial Operations: Work closely with our external accounting firm on monthly close, audit, tax, and internal reporting, ensuring numbers are accurate and timely
- Capital & Investors: Partner with leadership on fundraising workstreams and board and investor communications, including board materials, investor updates, and the financial narrative around the business
- Corporate Development: Drive M&A, investment opportunities, strategic partnerships, and broader inorganic growth initiatives
- Commercial & Customer Operations: Partner with GTM and customer-facing teams on pricing, deal structuring, billing, revenue operations, and the systems that make the commercial engine run cleanly
- Business Analytics: Build the analytical foundation and frameworks used to run the business
- Special Projects: Take on the highest-leverage problems the company faces, from new market entry to building out new functions
- AI-Native Execution: Use AI across every workflow, from modeling, analysis, diligence and reporting to operations
Our take
Dialogue writing for video games has traditionally been a matter of branching conversations based on player input, but this is a time-consuming and complicated process. In modern virtual environments which can contain thousands of characters, the need to save on costs means that conversations with many characters can be shallow and repetitive. Inworld AI's solution allows for the creation of unique and flexible interactions for even the most minor characters, based on just a few descriptive sentences.
Since launching, Inworld has quickly grown from an AI-character startup into one of the key players powering consumer AI. Its early work with companies like Xbox, Disney, and NBCUniversal helped provide the value of real-time AI experiences, and now a wide range of media companies, game studios, and fast-growing startups are building on its platform.
Now, with the recent release of Inworld Runtime, the company is taking an even bigger step. By opening up the internal system they originally built to handle huge, real-time consumer workloads, Inworld is positioning Runtime as the go-to backend for any team looking to scale from an idea to millions of users. Its adaptive graphs, automated MLOps, and one-click experiments remove most of the painful engineering work that usually slows teams now. And for Inworld, this turns Runtime into more than just a product; it becomes the core of the company's future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $117m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously co-founded API.AI (now known as Google Dialogflow), a developer platform for building conversational experiences, and served as its CEO before Google acquired the company in 2016. The company also built Assistant.ai, the highest-rated independent voice assistant in the world with 40M+ users. Ilya was also the Founding Head of the Google Assistant Investments program at Google.
Michael Ermolenko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Michael has extensive experience in leading AI teams and led Machine Learning Development at API.ai and the Dialogflow NLU/AI team at Google.
Kylan Gibbs
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kylan has a background in turning advanced AI into products that naturally interact with humans. They came from DeepMind, where they led products for Conversational AI and Generative Models. Prior, Kylan worked on enterprise Machine Learning projects at Bain & Company.
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