Strategic Finance Analyst
About AirGarage
AirGarage is on a mission to bring real estate online, starting with parking.
We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual, labor-intensive operations with a unified, data-rich operating system for parking real estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more.
By building all of our technology in-house, we are able to deliver a magical experience for drivers while providing real-time visibility and revenue increases of 20-50% or more for real estate owners. That’s why national real‑estate leaders like Hines and Greystar, as well as technology companies like Meta, partner with AirGarage to optimize their parking facilities.
AirGarage uses datapoints like real-time occupancy, local events, weather, driver behavior, competitor pricing, and more to bring true intelligence to real estate owners’ assets for the first time.
We’re investing aggressively to make the physical world legible to a digital system: cameras, sensors, and software that generate a firehose of real-time data about the world around us. That data fuels models and algorithms that allow us to optimize performance at each property while giving owners the clarity and control they’ve never had before.
Before you can optimize an asset, you need to observe it. Before you can observe it, you need to bring it online.
We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. 26% of the land area in the median American urban core is dedicated to parking.
We are backed by top tier investors including Headline Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.
Want to learn more about AirGarage and the problem we're tackling?
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The Role 👩🏾💻
We're looking for a data-savvy Strategic Finance Analyst to convert our data capabilities into real impact across the business. You'll join our Data team where you will leverage industry-leading intelligence on parking properties to plan and execute plays for the business.
This could involve leading creative GTM experiments, exploring acquisitions, identifying revenue growth levers, etc. Your north star objective will be to help the business realize value from its competitive advantage in data, whatever form that may take. While you explore and pursue various strategic bets, your Data teammates will be focused on enabling you with the superpowers you will need to be successful.
It’s important to note that this will not look like a ‘typical’ finance role. We expect you to be a scrappy operator, not just a high-level thinker. Most of the time you will not be given ready-to-use datasets, you will be writing the SQL to arm yourself with the data you need. While you should be a spreadsheet expert, that should not be your only or default mode of operating. We are building a Data team of the future where both capability-building and business impact is our responsibility, so if being part of a team like that gets you excited we’d love to meet you.
What You Will Do 👷♀️
Underwrite parking properties: Analyze historical financials and forecast future financial performance for parking properties to determine investment viability.
Conduct real estate due diligence: Evaluate property risks, contract terms, and operational considerations before acquisition or partnership decisions.
Collaborate with external stakeholders: Engage directly with real estate executives and investment professionals, oftentimes discussing data-dense models.
Deliver feedback to Data team: Communicate gaps or opportunities in the data and tools you leverage in your work to spin our self-improvement flywheel.
Explore the frontier of real estate data: Identify innovative ways to leverage parking and real estate datasets to create competitive advantages and new business opportunities.
Perform company-level forecasting: Generate scenarios and projections that model company growth.
Investor and board reporting: Prepare polished, data-driven analyses that get included in investor-facing and board-facing materials.
What You Need 👩🏼🎓
Bachelor's degree in related area and 3-5 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, strategic finance, or comparable real estate investment roles.
Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills: you’re comfortable working with large datasets both in spreadsheets and in databases.
SQL skills required: you will need to be capable enough to hold your weight and not be dependent on your Data teammates for impact.
Passion for data: you're excited by the opportunity to sit within our Data team, ramp up your data skillset, and adopt new approaches to finance workflows.
Business judgement: you have strong intuition when it comes to making judgement calls or generating reasonable assumptions on the fly.
Strong synthesis skills: you have the ability to stitch together cohesive narratives and generate actionable insights from large pools of messy data with potentially contradictory signals.
Client/customer-facing: you’re comfortable engaging directly with external partners, property owners, and investors. You bring professionalism, polish, and strong communication skills to high-stakes conversations and presentations.
🚨 WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE FOR YOU 🚨
Please review this section before applying. We are sharing this information up front because we don’t expect this job to be appealing to everybody and we do not want to waste your time if you are not on board with all of the following.
Being a Strategic Finance Analyst at a fast-growing startup like AirGarage means you’ll face unique challenges that don’t exist in more mature companies. This role may not be the right fit for you if:
You need a lot of hand-holding. We’re still a very lean team so we rely on all our team members to be high agency and proactive when it comes to unblocking yourself.
You can’t really work with data. We want to stress again that this might not look like many other finance roles. You will sit on our Data team, not our Finance team which should make you excited not nervous.
You only want to “analyze.” We need a builder who can get their hands dirty with messy data, build reports, and close gaps not just identify them.
You don’t love complexity. We’re a technology company that interacts with the physical world. Hundreds of locations, seasonality, revenue-share dynamics, and IoT data sources can make traditional SaaS analyses deceptively challenging.
IMPORTANT NOTE 🚨
AirGarage is a remote-first company, but we also value in-person collaboration to strengthen trust and teamwork. Team members should expect ~6 weeks of travel per year for:
2–3 full company offsites, “Remote Weeks”
Lending a hand to support 2 new location launches
In-person onboarding as well as supporting other onboarding sessions for new team members
The rest of the year, team members can work remotely from wherever (US time zones) they’re most comfortable as long as they are performing well in their role. Attendance at in-person events throughout the year is expected—if you’re not open to traveling ~6 weeks per year for work, this role isn’t a good fit for you.
THE UPSIDE 📈
📈 Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.
🌴 Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like! We believe in folks working where they are happiest and most productive. We currently hire teammates that are located anywhere within North America.
🏥 Health insurance: We offer health insurance and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical, dental, and vision plans for the primary employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents.
🍼 Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. The 12 weeks can be taken as a continuous leave or intermittently over the first 18 months of the child's life.
💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for success.
⛺ Time to recharge: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.
🤑 401k: Make financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program.
✈️ Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year our team comes together for a full week in places like Tahoe, Puerto Vallarta, San Diego, Park City, and Austin.
📚 BookGarage: Our team loves to learn and grow together, so join us for our optional recurring book club.
🪴Room to grow: Our team will be orders of magnitude larger within a few years; as a part of our foundational team, you'll have opportunities to grow with us.
🏙️ Transform our cities: The opportunity to change the way that the world thinks about real estate use in our cities.
👐 Work with a diverse team: At AirGarage, we've always been committed to building a thriving team that represents the communities we serve. Our team is currently 40% female and 30%+ from underrepresented communities.
Note: Employment with AirGarage is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and employment verification conducted in compliance with applicable laws. Background checks are completed only after a conditional offer of employment has been made.
We understand that there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for someone passionate, with grit and determination, who is excited to face the challenges of a rapidly growing startup. AirGarage is the type of company where you can grow exponentially, and we encourage you to apply to us even if you don't 100% match the candidate description.
AirGarage is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit, qualifications, and performance. We will never discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.