[Remote] Chief Financial Officer (all genders)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. deskbird is hiring a Chief Financial Officer to partner with its management team and lead finance, fundraising, and capital-markets strategy. The role owns the path to profitability, an AI-first finance and operations function, commercial insights, international tax and entity structure, investor relations, and financial operations.

Responsibilities

• The equity story and funding readiness. You will keep deskbird in the best possible shape for whatever comes next - future financing rounds, strategic options, and long-term value creation. Narrative, metrics, data room, diligence readiness: always current, always credible. When we choose to run a process, you will lead it, working directly with the founders and board
• The path to profitability. You’ll own the plan that takes us to sustainable positive cash flows profitability without sacrificing growth: driver-based planning, disciplined capital allocation, and a sharp view on where every franc and euro works hardest
• An AI-first finance & operations function. We want a hands-on operator on the edge of AI development who automates before hiring, works in the models and tools personally, and proves that a lean, AI-augmented team can outperform a traditional org several times its size. We don’t want a CFO who builds a 20-person department
• Commercial intelligence for GTM and Product. You’ll drive the insights that tell us where to invest: which segments, motions, and product bets deliver the strongest combined growth and efficiency profile. Finance at deskbird is a value driver in pricing, packaging, NRR economics, and unit-economics decisions - not just a scorekeeper
• International structure and tax efficiency. You’ll own our multi-entity group structure across Europe, introduce transfer pricing, and ensure we operate in a tax-efficient, fully compliant setup as we scale internationally
• The cap table and investor-grade financials. You’ll keep our cap table and VSOP clean, well-modeled, and always ready for the next financing round, and bring our accounting to the  standard any institutional investor expects - SaaS revenue recognition (local GAAP) done right, smooth statutory audits, and, where a future process demands it, conversion to the relevant GAAP
• Board and investor relations. You’ll run the reporting rhythm, build trust with our existing investors, and represent deskbird credibly to future ones - from day one, alongside the founders
• Cash, risk, and the operational backbone. Treasury, FX, and runway discipline, scenario planning, audit readiness, and oversight of legal, procurement, and insurance

Skills

• Deep fluency in finance processes and B2B SaaS mechanics: ARR/NRR, cohort economics, CAC payback, Rule of 40, the ARR-to-cash bridge
• Full working proficiency in English
• A transaction-shaped career: ideally PE, M&A or investment banking, followed by operating experience in a scaling company - you've seen deals from the inside and know what investors actually sign up for
• (Exceptional candidates from transaction advisory (e.g. Big4) or top-tier strategy consulting with strong deal exposure will also be considered
• Experience at our scale and complexity(>€10M ARR, ~100+ employees)
• Ideally, you've already seen what comes next (>€25M ARR), so you know what to build now and what to deliberately skip
• Fundraising and/or liquidity event exposure, ideally where the story was efficient, profitable growth rather than growth at all costs
• Genuine excitement about AI-native ways of working - you're already using these tools daily and want to push further
• German is strongly preferred
• Experience owning or partnering closely with People & Culture
• Multi-entity European operations: Swiss/EU accounting, VAT, transfer pricing, cross-border payroll
• Venture debt, structured financing, or buy-side M&A experience

Benefits

• Meaningful equity upside—a package built for a founder-like profile in a capital-efficient business, where the value you help create is value you share in.
• A real seat at the table—board meetings from day one, direct partnership with the founders, and full ownership of your domain.
• An AI-first culture—the freedom (and expectation) to build the most modern finance function in European SaaS.
• A high-talent, low-ego executive team that moves fast and debates openly.

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