Strategic Finance Lead

Posted 4 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Hybrid
170K-170K Annually
Senior level
Angel or VC Firm
The Role
Own Nova's financial performance and product economics across deposits, treasury, payments, credit, and wealth. Master the Nova P&L and unit economics (NIM, float, lending spread, referral/take-rate, AUM fees), set targets and GTM plans, prioritize product builds and pricing, drive adoption and revenue, and communicate clear financial narratives and tradeoffs to executives. Use AI to improve finance workflows and decision-making.
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Why Join AngelList 

We’re solving some of the hardest problems in venture capital and private markets. You’ll work with a team that values precision, urgency, and long-term thinking. If you want to shape how startups are funded and built, this is the place.

About AngelList

We exist to accelerate innovation by increasing the number of successful startups in the world. We do this by building the financial infrastructure that makes it easier for more people to invest in world-changing companies.

AngelList is the nexus of venture capital and the startup community. We support $171B+ in assets and have powered investments into over 13,000 startups—over 300 of which are unicorns. Today, 57% of top-tier U.S. VC deals involve investors on AngelList. While our scale is large, our ambition is larger.

If you're excited to build the future of private markets, come build with us.


About the Role:

Nova is AngelList's banking and payments network for private markets. Funds and investors both live on the network, and money (subscriptions, capital calls, distributions) moves between them inside it instead of through wires and PDFs. On top of those rails sits a growing menu of financial products: treasury and yield, credit, and a wealth layer that keeps an investor's capital working from one fund to the next.

We're looking for someone to own the economics of that product menu with the autonomy and scope of a division CFO. Your fingerprints should be visible on which products we build, how they're priced, and how fast they reach the market.

This is not a traditional finance role. Success is whether the business makes better decisions, ships the right products, and accelerates revenue.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the Nova business narrative on financial performance, product economics, and outlook, including mastery of the Nova P&L and revenue model.
  • Own the economics of the financial-product menu (deposits, treasury, payments, credit, and wealth) and bring the point of view on what to build next, how it is priced, and how it makes money.
  • Drive revenue growth: own target-setting and go-to-market planning for new and existing products, and unlock adoption across every channel from direct GP sales, the Ark / fund-admin cross-sell to the LP surface.
  • Model the unit economics that drive the call (NIM and float, lending spread and risk, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees), and connect each product to payments volume, balances, and revenue.

What we’re looking for:

  • 8+ years across strategic finance, banking, private markets, or corporate strategy, owning growth planning personally. The strongest fits come from fintech or neobank strategic finance, private-markets infrastructure, or banking and financial services turned operational.
  • You reason natively in financial-product economics: deposits and float, lending spreads, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees. You can tell a profitable product from a costly one.
  • You form a clear point of view on what to build next, build conviction across product, GTM, and ops, and carry it to launch with pricing, packaging, and targets. You've killed a bet people believed in when the economics don't hold.
  • You operate with broad scope and no playbook. You make senior judgment calls before the data is clean, shape your own mandate, and have a bias to action. You'd rather decide in days and correct course than spend weeks on a cleaner answer.
  • You can distill a complex problem to the handful of points that move the decision, and you communicate it to executives in writing, in person, and in charts.
  • You've built AI into how you work and expect it to reshape how finance operates. You want to be the person defining what that looks like here.

How success will be measured:

  • Leadership has conviction on which financial product we build next, and why.
  • The Nova leadership team plans off one model it trusts, with product economics, targets, and tradeoffs in one place.
  • There's a clear, consistent narrative on financial performance and which growth levers to prioritize.
  • Revenue grows: new and existing products show up in payments volume, balances, and revenue, with GTM unlocked across direct, Ark / fund-admin, and LP channels.

Working Here

If you don’t meet every requirement above, we still encourage you to apply. We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

We operate out of hubs in New York City and San Francisco. For most roles on those teams, we work from the office at least two days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday).
Compensation:
The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $170,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Full details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

Benefits:
We support your life both in and outside of work.
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What Guides Us:
At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape what we work on and how we create impact. If the below resonate, we'd love to have you with us.
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AngelList is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years across strategic finance, banking, private markets, or corporate strategy, owning growth planning personally
  • Experience in fintech or neobank strategic finance, private-markets infrastructure, or banking and financial services operations
  • Deep knowledge of financial-product economics (deposits and float, lending spreads, referral and take-rate economics, AUM fees)
  • Proven ability to set pricing, packaging, targets, and make go-to-market plans for new and existing products
  • Experience modeling unit economics and connecting products to payments volume, balances, and revenue
  • Ability to operate with broad scope, make senior judgment calls with incomplete data, and bias to action
  • Strong communication skills: distill complex problems and present to executives in writing, in person, and in charts
  • Experience building AI into finance workflows and using AI to reshape financial operations
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
518 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate innovation. Our platform supports over $15B in assets for fund managers and has facilitated 17k+ startup investments (including 287 unicorns). Additionally, more than 1.3k startups use our suite of founder services to manage their business operations. AngelList is the de facto platform for investors, fund managers, and founders looking to build and invest in the next generation of great startups.

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