The Role
Own and build Auger’s finance function, including financial modeling, SaaS metrics, unit economics, pricing, forecasting, cash management, reporting, controls, and operating reviews. Partner with engineering, product, commercial, and customer teams to understand cloud and AI infrastructure costs, improve margins, evaluate contracts, and establish scalable finance processes, systems, and teams.
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Compensation & Benefits
Auger is the autonomous operating system for supply chains — the layer that finally allows disparate systems like ERP, WMS, and TMS to work together instead of against each other.
Most supply chain software surfaces problems and waits for a human to act. Auger solves them. Our AI detects disruptions, evaluates trade-offs, and executes decisions automatically — moving from signal to action in seconds, not weeks. We eliminate the Coordination Tax: the billions in capital and time lost when disconnected systems force the best people in the business to become the Human API between planning and execution.
At Auger, we design autonomy into our systems. We expect the same from our people.
That means:
- Clear ownership, not decision by consensus
- First principles over inherited patterns
- Shipping systems, not slide decks
- Fast feedback from reality, not opinions
If you want to build, ship, and iterate against reality, Auger is for you.
Auger was founded by Dave Clark and is backed by $150M from Oak HC/FT and Eclipse Capital. Our team works from Bellevue, WA and Dallas, TX.
About the role
We are hiring a hands-on VP/Head of Finance to build the financial and operating discipline required to make Auger an efficient, profitable business.
This is a deeply operational role. You will build the metrics, processes, systems, and accountability that connect how our platform runs to how our business performs. You will work closely with engineering, product, commercial, and customer teams to understand the economics of delivering autonomous work, and improve those economics as we scale.
You should be comfortable building a financial model, investigating compute costs, tracing customer usage through billing, challenging a pricing assumption, and turning an operating review into decisions with clear owners.
Your mandate is to make the business measurable, make the economics understandable, and help teams act on what the numbers reveal. Expect incomplete data, undefined metrics, and pricing we are still learning. You build the answers yourself, working directly with the founders and engineers and supply chain experts who built the platform, and you build your team as the work justifies the growth.
What you will own
Build a trusted view of business performance
- Define the metrics that matter, with clear owners and sources, and connect infrastructure consumption, platform activity, contracts, billing, and financial results in one set of numbers teams can trust and trace.
- Turn reporting into action: identify issues, quantify their impact, assign follow-through, and verify results.
Understand and improve platform economics
- Build a detailed understanding of the costs of delivering Auger's platform to our enterprise customers, including compute, model inference, storage, networking, third-party services, implementation, and ongoing support.
- Establish meaningful unit economics for the work the platform performs, connecting resource consumption to completed workflows, executed decisions, and customer value.
- Partner with engineering to evaluate capacity, architecture, vendor commitments, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Make customer growth economically sound
- Make implementation effort, time to value, cost to serve, gross margin, net revenue retention, and CAC payback visible and actionable.
- Measure how customer economics change as additional solutions reuse what Auger's platform already understands about a business.
- Identify customers and contracts with unsustainable economics.
- Own pricing and packaging
- Own pricing strategy and the economics behind it, so every price reflects the value we deliver and what it costs us to deliver it.
- Build a deal-review process that holds each contract to those economics.
- Recommend how pricing should evolve as customers adopt more solutions and the platform reuses what it already knows.
Establish disciplined planning and execution
- Own the operating model, budget, rolling forecast, cash forecast, and scenario planning.
- Establish weekly operating reviews and monthly financial reviews that explain performance, surface risks, and drive decisions.
- Build practical processes for purchasing, vendor management, spending approvals, and investment evaluation.
Build a dependable finance function
- Own financial reporting, the close, and controls. Reconcile the books, operating dashboards, billing systems, and cash, and coordinate tax and compliance specialists.
- Deliver clear reporting to leadership and the board on ARR, net revenue retention, gross margin, burn, cash requirements, and risks.
- Build the team, systems, and automation required to support Auger as it scales.
What you bring
- Experience owning operational finance at a SaaS or enterprise software company, ideally one with usage-based pricing and significant cloud or AI infrastructure costs.
- A record of building financial models, operating metrics, reporting, and processes from the ground up.
- Strong command of SaaS metrics (ARR, net revenue retention, gross margin, CAC payback), unit economics, cost allocation, pricing, capacity planning, and cash management.
- You work directly with detailed data in SQL and business intelligence tools, and with engineering on compute consumption, model costs, instrumentation, and billing.
- Sound accounting judgment, including revenue recognition for subscription and usage-based contracts, and the ability to oversee a reliable close and financial controls.
- Evidence that your work has produced measurable improvements in efficiency, margins, or cash performance.
- The judgment to introduce structure that helps people execute without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
How you work
You take ownership from identifying a problem through implementing a solution and verifying the result. You get close to the operational details, make complicated economics understandable, and challenge assumptions constructively. You build processes people actually use. You know which decisions require precision and which require a timely, well-supported judgment. You hold yourself accountable to the same standard Auger brings to its customers: doing the work and delivering measurable results.
As part of our commitment to People Powered Greatness, we invest in our team members with competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits to support your health, financial future, and daily life. The package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, and commuter benefits. Total compensation may include a combination of a competitive base salary and equity. Your initial placement within our salary range will be based on your experience, qualifications.
The base pay range for this role is $250,000 – $350,000 per year.
Auger considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Additionally, our privacy policy is available at https://auger.com/privacy-notice/.
Skills Required
- Experience owning operational finance at a SaaS or enterprise software company, ideally with usage-based pricing and significant cloud or AI infrastructure costs.
- Experience building financial models, operating metrics, reporting, and processes from the ground up.
- Strong command of SaaS metrics, including ARR, net revenue retention, gross margin, CAC payback, unit economics, cost allocation, pricing, capacity planning, and cash management.
- Experience working directly with detailed data in SQL and business intelligence tools.
- Experience partnering with engineering on compute consumption, model costs, instrumentation, and billing.
- Sound accounting judgment, including revenue recognition for subscription and usage-based contracts.
- Ability to oversee a reliable financial close and financial controls.
- Evidence that prior work produced measurable improvements in efficiency, margins, or cash performance.
- Judgment to introduce structure that supports execution without unnecessary bureaucracy.
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The Company
What We Do
About Auger Auger is a pioneering venture to build the world's first true end-to-end supply chain operating system. Founded and led by Dave Clark, former CEO of the Amazon Consumer Business and backed by an initial $100M from Oak HC/FT, Auger is building a future where global supply chains operate with the simplicity of today’s most intuitive consumer technologies. Revolutionizing global supply chains with an AI-powered OS unifying data for seamless, real-time insights, and powerful automation. Our Solution Auger is creating a new solution for companies seeking better options. Auger’s core strength lies in its deep AI-powered automation, paired with a consumer-grade user experience. This combination allows operators to handle complex tasks through simple, familiar tools. Need real-time inventory insights for next week’s shipment? Just ask. Actionable data appears instantly, enabling swift decisions—no complex queries or training required. Why We’re Different Traditional supply chain management is fragmented, relying on incompatible systems and inefficient workarounds. Many companies are stuck with “Franken-software”—patched-together solutions that fail to communicate effectively. Auger is different. We integrate deeply with existing systems, use AI to automate routine processes, and deliver a cohesive user experience that feels intuitive and natural, letting your team focus on what matters: driving growth, innovation, and sustainability. A Human-Centered Approach Broken supply chains don’t just impact businesses—they affect people. Delays mean products don’t reach shelves, miscommunications lead to overtime and burnout, and inefficiencies drive up costs and contribute to a growing carbon footprint. We believe supply chain problems are human problems, and we’re here to solve them. At Auger, we’re on a mission to make global supply chains more efficient, more sustainable, and ultimately, better for everyone.
