Finance Operations Lead

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Palo Alto, CA, USA
In-Office
209K-222K Annually
Expert/Leader
eCommerce • Internet of Things • On-Demand • Transportation
Wing is an on-demand drone delivery service and platforms company.
The Role
Leads strategic finance operations, including executive planning, board and investor materials, fundraising diligence, unit economics, cash runway analysis, budgeting, financial tooling, internal controls, transfer pricing, and compliance workflows. Partners with FP&A, Controllership, engineering, product, and operations leaders to scale financial infrastructure and support growth, audits, and potential M&A activities.
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About Wing: 

Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing’s fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on two continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.

About the Role: Wing is looking for a Finance Operations Lead to join our Finance team. This role can be hybrid in Palo Alto, CA, or fully remote within the United States.

As the Finance Operations Lead, you will be a strategic cornerstone for the business, driving the rhythm of executive planning, board material production, and future fundraising initiatives. The ideal candidate brings a rare blend of high-agency startup agility and exceptional storytelling skills. You are just as comfortable diving deep into granular cohort retention spreadsheets as you are zooming out to present visually clean, strategic memos to the Board of Directors. You will operate with absolute integrity and discretion, handling sensitive cap table data and M&A explorations while establishing the modern tooling and compliance workflows that will scale Wing into its next phase of growth.

What You’ll Do
  • Support long-term planning and annual valuation workstreams. Facilitate and track action items for monthly Exec Team reviews, bi-weekly Finance Leadership syncs, cross-functional business reviews, and quarterly planning exercises.
  • Co-lead the preparation of investor data rooms, forward-looking financial projections, and strategic pitches for future capital raises.
  • Own the end-to-end production of Finance content for quarterly Board of Directors decks and monthly investor update memos.
  • Execute deep-dive unit economic analyses into cohort retention, customer acquisition payback, and gross margins across customer segments and geographies.
  • Monitor cash burn, runway scenarios, headcount growth plans, and budget-vs-actual variances in close partnership with FP&A and Strategic Finance.
  • Partner with Finance leads to evaluate, select, and scale modern financial tooling.
  • Support Controllership in establishing early-stage internal controls, transfer pricing policies, and compliance workflows as we prepare for annual audits with top-tier audit firms.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 12+ years of experience in strategic finance, finance operations, investment banking, or corporate finance.
  • Demonstrated experience in a leadership role overseeing FP&A, capital allocation, unit economics, and multi-year forecasting.
  • Proven track record scaling operations and financial infrastructure at a previous company (e.g., from early-stage to commercial scale).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience operating in hardware, logistics, supply chain, or deep tech environments.
  • Experience acting as a strategic partner to engineering, product, and operations leaders.
  • Prior experience successfully co-leading or preparing diligence for Series B/C+ venture capital fundraising or strategic M&A.
  • Hands-on experience selecting and implementing modern finance and ERP software stacks from the ground up
  • MBA or CPA preferred

The US base salary range for this full-time position is the salary range below + bonus + equity + benefits. Wing’s salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

Salary Range
$209,000—$222,000 USD

Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

If you have a need that requires accommodation during the interview process due to a disability or special need, please let us know by completing our Candidate Accommodations Request Form.

Skills Required

  • 12+ years of experience in strategic finance, finance operations, investment banking, or corporate finance
  • Leadership experience overseeing FP&A, capital allocation, unit economics, and multi-year forecasting
  • Track record scaling operations and financial infrastructure from early-stage to commercial scale
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related quantitative field
  • Experience in hardware, logistics, supply chain, or deep tech environments
  • Experience partnering strategically with engineering, product, and operations leaders
  • Experience co-leading or preparing diligence for Series B/C+ venture capital fundraising or strategic M&A
  • Hands-on experience selecting and implementing modern finance and ERP software stacks from the ground up
  • MBA or CPA
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery.

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