Strategic Finance Associate

Who we are:

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We’ve already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:

We're hiring a Strategic Finance Associate to join us as a founding member of our Strategic Finance team. This is a high-impact role that will work closely with senior leadership and shape the financial strategy of Nirvana.

You’ll get substantial visibility, drive projects that influence the entire company, and be plugged into every facet of the business. You will dive deep in learning about a fast-growing business, design and implement company-wide initiatives to drive toward our desired business and financial outcomes. Examples include driving initiatives to improve key financial and operating metrics, identifying new business initiatives and assisting in future financings and investment rounds.
What you’ll do:

• Implement advanced analytics and modeling as part of long-term planning, annual budgeting, investor reporting, and budget variance analyses

• Partner with leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Go-to-Market, and People to provide actionable insights, influence decisions, and spearhead initiatives that improve business and financial performance

• Drive business and financial outcomes by translating complex financial data into concise recommendations and action plans for operational and strategic improvements

• Help diligence, negotiate, and implement transactions (e.g., M&A, vendor negotiations, capital raises)

About you:

• 2-4 years of experience across management consulting, investment banking, private equity, Strategic Finance or Business Operations roles in high-growth companies

• Proficiency in complex financial modeling and planning

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with multiple teams, building strong relationships, and driving alignment in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

• Demonstrated outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify and articulate complex financial concepts to diverse stakeholders, from executives to operators.

• Hands-on operator: comfortable digging into the details with teams, implementing solutions, and iterating quickly - not just producing metrics or analysis.

• Detail-oriented and execution-focused, with the resilience to thrive in a high-performance, fast-paced setting.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity

• Medical, dental & vision insurance

• 401k with company match

• Unlimited PTO

• 4 days/week in SF office

We set our salary ranges using compensation data from companies similar to our stage and size. For this role, the estimated salary range for this position is $115,000 - $135,000. The actual base salary will vary depending on multiple factors unique to each candidate, including location, job-related knowledge, transferable skills, work experience and our assessment of your level during the interview process.

Nirvana offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive benefits for this role including 100% employer paid healthcare plans, a healthy 401k match program, paid time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursement, work-from-home stipend and more.

In addition, Nirvana offers equity for all full-time employees, which is not included in the range listed above and will have a significant impact on your overall compensation.

Nirvana is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. We'd like to consider you for this position and roles that may be a fit in the future. Nirvana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Nirvana considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.