Director of Accounting, Weights & Biases
$158-216k
+ Equity and variable compensation in the form of a bonus or commission component
MLOps platform for developers
Be an early applicant
MLOps platform for developers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$158-216k
+ Equity and variable compensation in the form of a bonus or commission component
201-500 employees
Company mission
Weights & Biases's mission is to build the best tools for machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in public accounting and/or multinational corporation
- CPA and Big Four experience (a plus)
- Eep understanding of SaaS revenue recognition standards (ASC 606) with on-prem license experience and subscription-based business models required
- Netsuite experience required, Carta experience a plus
- Must be system savvy to learn and adopt new systems as needed
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex matters with simplicity and clarity to non-experts across the company
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to manage multi-location teams
- Must have a customer service mindset and a team player mentality
- Must have a positive, strong, proactive work ethic
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director of Accounting to join our rapidly expanding team of seasoned finance professionals
- The Director of Accounting will report to the VP, Corporate Controller and play an important role in managing and developing our world-class accounting team as our company grows
- This role presents an incredible learning opportunity and will include exposure to a variety of accounting processes and business process optimization in a global, fast-paced, and growing environment
- The Director of Accounting will have a high level of visibility and interaction with the executive team
- This role will lead all aspects of financial management, including corporate accounting, regulatory and financial reporting, management of the external audit, tax filings, and tax planning, as well as the development and administration of internal control procedures
- Lead monthly close process, journal entries, and account reconciliations. Take full ownership of the process including potential systems enhancements, process improvements, and whether to realign roles and responsibilities
- Oversee and develop AP, Payroll, and Revenue teams through effective mentoring and performance management
- Work cross-functionally with business partners and other corporate functions such as legal, tax, finance, sales, HR and others to ensure optimal accounting outcomes
- Oversee various aspects of operational accounting. Develop and maintain robust internal controls
- Design, track, report and continuously improve service level agreements for the back-office accounting operations
- Draft and implement accounting policies to ensure compliance with regulatory changes and company objectives
- Track and manage treasury function
- Guide sales teams on revenue recognition implications under ASC 606
- Partner with Legal and Deal Desk to review non-standard contract terms and accounting treatment
- Lead revenue recognition training for sales teams
- Establish scalable processes for contract review for revenue recognition
- Ensure integrity of financial reporting through collaboration with external advisors
- Manage preparation of financial information for internal and investor reporting, audits, reviews and tax compliance
- Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and reporting standards
- Ensure financial records and reports are prepared in compliance with company policies and in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth
- Build high-performing teams through recruitment, training, and clear role definition
- Mentoring and developing staff members to enhance skill sets and prepare them for advancement opportunities within the organization
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and unwavering commitment; a proactive, hands-on strategic thinker who will own, in partnership with the Corporate Controller
Our take
Weights & Biases (W&B) builds development tools for machine learning, helping businesses to create and use deep learning models. In order for deep learning to work, it’s necessary for companies to be able to monitor how the models are behaving as they are trained. With over 200,000 customers, W&B has differentiated itself from its competitors such as IBM Watson Studio and Valohai by focusing exclusively on machine learning practitioners and not on sales aspects of the technology, and by its competitive pricing.
The company has also launched a product to help different parties collaborate on machine learning models. This is geared at researchers, reducing the need for them to rerun their training examples repeatedly. Over time, this will help to move machine learning technology forward. What's more, W&B's technology is free for personal and academic use, which has fueled adoption enormously, and it is now being used by research institutions such as UC Berkeley and enterpise companies like Samsung and Salesforce.
The dependence on machine learning is growing as more and more companies begin to use artificial intelligence to handle business tasks, so demand for this sort of software is rising. Having raised substantial funding, W&B is moving to futher develop its product, grow its team and increase its marketing reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$135m
SERIES C
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time
- 🩺 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage
- 🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco
- 💵 $500 home office budget with new high-powered laptop
- 🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity
- 🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave
- 📈 401(k)
Company values
- We're building a culture where people love coming to work to build cool things and collaborate with other smart people
- It’s important to us that everyone feels comfortable being themselves and being honest with each other, and all of us take responsibility for making our customers successful
- We love to work with people who are driven, kind and proactive
- We care about diversity and if you are part of an underrepresented minority, we especially encourage you to apply to work here
- We are contributing to responsible AI with tools for transparency and reproducibility in model development and deployment
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Chris Van Pelt
(CISO)Earned a BA in Computer Science at Hope College. Previously Lead Engineer and Founder of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Lukas Biewald
(CEO)Earned a BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Scientist and Founder, CEO of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).
Shawn Lewis
(CTO)Earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously Engineer at Google and Founder at Beep Networks.
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