Finance Lead

Posted 2 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Hybrid
190K-250K Annually
Entry level
Cloud • Productivity • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The Role
Own the finance function, including budgeting, forecasting, cash and runway planning, financial modeling, reporting, unit economics, margin analysis, and infrastructure investment modeling. Partner with leadership on financial decisions, coordinate accountants and finance advisors across countries, and build scalable financial processes, controls, and systems in a fast-moving startup environment.
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Join our mission

We're proud to work with many incredible companies, accelerating their ability to build their products.

We've spent years watching talented engineering teams lose momentum to the same frustrating bottleneck: waiting. Waiting for CI to finish. Waiting for builds to complete. Waiting for tests to run.

After experiencing this pain firsthand at companies of every size, we set out to build the developer infrastructure platform we'd always wanted to use. Something that would seamlessly integrate with our workflows and the tools teams already love—but make everything dramatically faster and more cost-effective.

Today, we're already accelerating hundreds of companies around the world, helping them ship features instead of waiting for infrastructure. We've built something that feels almost magical in its simplicity: change your runs-on line, mount your toolchain cache directory and suddenly your builds are 5x faster.

About the role

We're looking for a Finance Lead to own and build out the finance function at Namespace as we scale.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can connect the day-to-day financial operations of the business with a clear view of where we're going. You'll own budgeting, forecasting, cash and runway planning, and financial reporting, while helping us understand the economics behind our infrastructure investments and business.

You will be working closely with our leadership team on hardware investments, leasing, unit economics and planning ahead. You'll also coordinate our external accountants and other finance partners and continuously improve the systems and processes behind how we manage the business.

We're looking for someone who is comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup, enjoys building things from the ground up, and can move easily between financial models, operational details, and strategic decisions.

Our culture

We're looking for people with grit—people who push through ambiguity, take ownership, and keep going when things get hard. You're deeply curious, driven to understand how things work and how they can be improved. Most importantly, you have a strong bias to execution: you don't wait for perfect conditions, you ship, learn, and iterate quickly. If you care about building, moving fast, and making real impact, you'll fit right in.

What you'll do
  • Own budgeting, forecasting, and cash and runway planning

  • Build and maintain financial models that give us a clear view of company performance and future scenarios

  • Own financial reporting and provide leadership with clear visibility into performance, spend, and key financial metrics

  • Develop a strong understanding of our cost structure, unit economics, and profit margins

  • Model the economics of hardware and infrastructure investments, including purchasing, financing, and leasing

  • Partner with leadership on major financial and investment decisions

  • Manage and coordinate external accountants, tax advisors, and other finance partners across the countries where we operate

  • Own and continuously improve our financial processes, controls, and systems as the company scales

What we're looking for
  • Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling

  • Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-moving environment, ideally helping build or scale a finance function

  • Experience with hardware, infrastructure, or lease management

  • Strong understanding of cost structures, unit economics, and margin analysis

  • Experience managing accountants and external finance partners

  • You can translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for leadership

  • You’re comfortable digging into the details while keeping the bigger financial picture in mind

  • You’re highly organized and able to manage multiple financial workstreams and deadlines

  • You enjoy taking ownership, building processes, and solving problems hands-on

  • You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and creating structure where it doesn’t exist yet

You can expect:

  • Competitive salary and stock options

  • Flexible working hours

  • Market-leading parental leave

Life at Namespace Labs:

  • We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.

  • We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.

  • We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.

Skills Required

  • Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
  • Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-moving environment, ideally helping build or scale a finance function
  • Experience with hardware, infrastructure, or lease management
  • Strong understanding of cost structures, unit economics, and margin analysis
  • Experience managing accountants and external finance partners
  • Ability to translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for leadership
  • Ability to manage financial details while maintaining the broader financial picture
  • Highly organized and able to manage multiple financial workstreams and deadlines
  • Willingness to take ownership, build processes, and solve problems hands-on
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity and creating structure where it does not exist
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The Company
20 Employees

What We Do

Namespace Labs provides a high-performance developer infrastructure platform designed to accelerate the development workflow for software engineering teams. By offering purpose-built cloud computers and ephemeral compute services, the company enables 2x-10x faster builds and tests, helping teams improve productivity and ship features more efficiently without being hindered by infrastructure bottlenecks.

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