Strategy & Operations Manager, Hardware Scale-Up

Lead consolidated financial reporting and forecasting for hardware organizations. Deliver integrated P&L views across R&D Product Revenue COGS and OpEx. Establish and run financial operating cadence including monthly close forecasting and variance analysis. Serve as finance partner to hardware finance leads central FP&A and accounting. Design and manage consolidated forecasting and reporting models that integrate inputs from product finance revenue and r&d. Build and maintain hardware financial systems driving standardization automation and scalability. Own the hardware chart of accounts and financial structures. Provide executive-ready insights including variance explanations and forward-looking signals. Establish data governance and quality controls for trusted financial outputs. Support portfolio-level decisions by enabling consistent comparisons across hardware programs. Contribute to scaling hardware finance infrastructure. Thrive with 8+ years finance experience hardware manufacturing or complex supply chain. Passion for building world-class finance teams. Demonstrate expert modeling skills with attention to detail. Communicate data insights effectively. Show enthusiasm for human-computer interface for AI era.

You will own financial planning, CapEx modeling, working capital analysis, and reporting for production at a defense startup shipping autonomous counter-drone systems to SOCOM and the U.S. Army, on a trajectory to $1B annual revenue. You will partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Execution leadership, providing financial clarity on capacity planning, inventory, and cash flow. This hands-on role blends deep manufacturing finance expertise with strategic influence, bridging operational decisions and financial reality. Your work will directly shape production scaling and liquidity management in a high-stakes defense environment, with the backing of founders who have exited two ventures for a combined $180M.

You will build the 0→1 financial foundations and decision frameworks that scale OpenAI’s B2B portfolio, including the API Platform and other products. Own an integrated view of monetization, compute demand, and enterprise deal economics, influencing some of the largest deals in the industry. Partner with Product, GTM, Deal Desk, and Compute Finance to turn strategy into financial decisions. This role stands apart by giving you direct ownership of portfolio-wide economics and a seat at the table for strategic capacity and investment choices.

You will build and own the accounting function from the ground up as the first senior accounting hire at Specter, a hardware company deploying AI-powered video sensors. You will report to finance leadership and establish the controls, close process, and reporting infrastructure that scale with a fast-growing business. Today there is no accounting team, so you will personally execute the monthly close and then hire and manage a team. This role stands out because it combines deep technical accounting in inventory and cost accounting with the chance to design systems from zero.

Run operating cadence for Product & Engineering while leading cross-functional initiatives. Own planning cycles roadmap workflows initiative tracking and coordinate team initiatives. Partner with product eng design legal sales and ops to create scalable frameworks for goal setting and execution. Analyze operational data to identify friction points and improve outcomes. Build outbound operations playbook with legal to scale with quality.

Strategic VP of Operations leading manufacturing supply chain and hardware operations at Corvus Robotics. Own end-to-end hardware operations scale production increase manufacturing velocity establish quality systems and build operations team. Differentiate by owning operational backbone of robotics company.