Finance & Strategic Operations Lead
Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations.
Finance & Strategic Operations Lead
Location: San Mateo, CA
Type: Full-time · On-site
Overview
Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.
Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.
Moonlake AI is looking for a Finance & Strategic Operations hire to help build the financial infrastructure of a rapidly growing frontier AI company.
This role sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations.
You will work closely with leadership on financial planning, fundraising preparation, and strategic decision-making.
What You'll Do
Financial Planning
Build and maintain financial models
Support budgeting and forecasting
Strategic Analysis
Support pricing strategy and monetization models
Analyze product economics and growth metrics
Fundraising Preparation
Support investor reporting and financial materials
Assist leadership in preparing fundraising narratives
Financial Operations
Maintain financial systems and processes
Work with external accounting partners
Ensure operational financial hygiene
What We're Looking For
Background in finance, consulting, or strategy
Strong analytical and modeling skills
Ability to operate in ambiguous environments
Interest in startups and frontier technology
Nice to have:
Experience in startups
Experience in venture-backed companies
MBA or equivalent experience
We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Mateo