About this role
ABOUT US
Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Own technical accounting
- Lead the documentation of all technical accounting policies (cost of revenue, allocations, leases, revenue, stock-based compensation, fixed assets, etc.)
- Serve as an advisor on strategic investments, acquisitions, and partnerships
- Review monthly financials for adherence to accounting policies
Lead audit and IPO readiness efforts
- Coordinate with external audit firm on quarterly and annual audit requirements
- Lead the review of how the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement are presented
- Ensure compliance with current financial statement disclosure requirements
Drive Finance Transformation initiatives to leverage AI and tooling at scale
- Enhance or upgrade our tech stack to enable the latest in AI technology
- Challenge our processes and develop an AI-first approach
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- CPA license
- 2-5+ years at a Big Four firm, preferably servicing public companies
- 2-5+ years in-house at a high-growth enterprise software company
- Proficient in US GAAP
- Ability to identify areas for improvement and build solutions using AI
- Desire to drive operational efficiency to scale the accounting function
- A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design a process where none exists, run it, and improve it over time without being managed toward it. A bias for simplifying and automating processes and a passion for building an AI-native finance function.
EVEN BETTER…
- Previous IPO experience with enterprise B2B software company
- Proficiency with our modern office-of-the-CFO tech stack
OUR VALUES
- Trust: We build