Location

Palo Alto

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Operations Team

Our Purpose

At Fiddler, we understand the implications of AI and the impact that it has on human lives. Our company was born with the mission of building trust into AI. The rise of Generative AI and Agents has unlocked generalized intelligence but also widened the risk aperture and made it harder to ensure that AI applications are working well. Fiddler enables organizations to get ahead of these issues by helping deploy trustworthy, and transparent AI solutions.

Fiddler partners with AI-first organizations to help build a long-term framework for responsible AI practices, which, in turn, builds trust with their user base. AI Engineers, Data Science, and business teams use Fiddler AI to monitor, evaluate, secure, analyze, and improve their AI solutions to drive better outcomes. Our platform enables engineering teams and business stakeholders alike to understand the "what", “why”, and "how" behind AI outcomes.

Our Founders

Fiddler AI is founded by Krishna Gade (engineering leader at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Microsoft) and Amit Paka (product leader at Microsoft, Samsung, Paypal and two-time founder). We are backed by Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Lux Capital.

Why Join Us

Our team is motivated to help build trust into AI to enable society harness the power of AI. Joining us means you get to make an impact by ensuring that AI applications at production scale across industries have operational transparency and security. We are an early-stage startup and have a rapidly growing team of intelligent and empathetic doers, thinkers, creators, builders, and everyone in between. The AI and ML industry has a rapid pace of innovation and the learning opportunities here are monumental. This is your chance to be a trailblazer.

Fiddler is recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI Observability and has received numerous accolades, including: 2022 a16z Data50 list, 2021 CB Insights AI 100 most promising startups, 2020 WEF Technology Pioneer, 2020 Forbes AI 50 most promising startups of 2020, and a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise AI Governance and Ethical Response. By joining our brilliant (at least we think so) team, you will help pave the way in the AI Observability space.

Mission:
As VP of Finance and a founding finance leader at Fiddler AI, you will build and scale the finance function from the ground up, driving strategic financial decisions, ensuring forecast accuracy and compliance, and enabling sustainable growth. You’ll partner across the company to create frameworks, processes, and insights that support capital raises, operational excellence, and profitable scaling—shaping the future of Fiddler AI while leading and mentoring the finance team

About The Team:
We’re a team of smart, driven, and mission-aligned individuals passionate about building trustworthy, transparent, and understandable AI solutions. Our team is spread across the continental U.S. and India, with our headquarters in Palo Alto.

The leadership group is a humble but high-caliber mix, bringing experience from both large corporations and scrappy start-ups. Most of the executive team is based in the Bay Area, giving this role plenty of face-to-face time, support, and collaboration opportunities.

Beyond work, we’re a diverse bunch: from Ironman finishers to avid travelers (one is nearly done visiting every U.S. state), to parents navigating everything from drop-offs at preschool to college move-in day. We’re united not just by our professional expertise, but by being genuinely good people who enjoy working together.

What You’ll Do:

Drive Strategic Financial Decisions own the financial strategy and operations that enable rapid, sustainable growth. Partner with the executive team and Board to drive strategic decisions that optimize growth, profitability, and capital allocation helping to ensure MRR/ARR grows quarter-over-quarter, churn stays low, and net revenue retention increases.

Lead FP&A, Forecasting, and Budgeting delivering rolling forecasts with low variance versus actuals, aligning budgets across departments, and ensuring capital is allocated efficiently to support strategic initiatives.

Ensure Accounting Excellence and Compliance, maintaining timely reporting and audit readiness, to support high confidence decision making, maintaining a month-end close on time, achieving zero major audit findings, and ensuring full regulatory compliance, while providing timely and accurate management reporting and Board decks.

Optimize Operations and Systems to scale efficiently, extending cash runway, maintaining a burn multiple at or below 1.5x, and implementing scalable processes and controls across the finance organization.

Lead Fundraising and Investor Relations crafting credible financial narratives and managing diligence processes for growth equity, private equity, or prospective public investors, enabling successful capital raises and smooth M&A integrations.

Build & Mentor the Finance Team, fostering a culture of ownership, transparency, and accountability and creating a finance function capable of supporting Fiddler AI’s next stage of growth

What We're Looking For:

10+ years of experience in finance, ideally in high-growth technology companies, with strong FP&A and strategic finance expertise.
Player-coach with a builder mindset with experience creating scalable finance frameworks, systems, and processes from the ground up.
Highly collaborative, able to partner effectively with executives across functions and bring teams along on financial strategy and decisions.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a strong sense of risk awareness and the ability to make decisions under uncertainty.
Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire high-performing finance teams, fostering accountability, ownership, and a growth-oriented culture.
Strong relationship-building and communication skills, able to translate complex financial concepts into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
Analytical and metrics-driven, with expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and budgeting that informs strategic decision-making.
Experience implementing and optimizing financial systems to improve efficiency, reporting, and operational control.
Track record of supporting investor relations and fundraising, ideally in AI, data, or analytics-focused companies.
Ability to work 2–3 days per week onsite in our Palo Alto office, collaborating closely with the executive team and finance function

Bonus Qualifications:

CPA, CFA, CMA, or MBA

Compensation:

$230,000 - $270,000

The posted range represents the expected salary range for this job requisition and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package and perks previously outlined. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider your experience, leveling, location, and other job-related factors.

Fiddler is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require special accommodations in order to complete the interviews or perform job duties, please inform the recruiter at the beginning of the process.

Beware of job scam fraud! We prioritize candidate safety. Our recruiters use @fiddler.ai email addresses exclusively. In the US, we do not conduct interviews via text or instant message, or to provide sensitive personally identifiable information such as bank account or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from a different domain about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to hr@fiddler.ai.

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