What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Finance Lead position at Agentio?
About Agentio
Agentio enables marketers to buy creator led ads as easily and scalably as Meta or Google ads—automating sourcing, pricing, contracting, delivery, and measurement—so work that took months now happens in minutes.
We're on a mission to transform a $800B digital ad ecosystem by shifting digital ad spend into the hands of creators. That means better outcomes for marketers and enabling creators to live off their work—finally being paid in proportion to the value they create. That shift is accelerating: Unilever's CEO has said the company will move roughly half of its ad budget into social and creators—Unilever is among the world's largest advertisers, spending around $9–10B annually. As these dollars move, they need performance-grade pipes; Agentio is how those dollars flow to creators with the speed, control, and measurement marketers expect. We enable brands like Uber, DoorDash, and Bombas to run creator campaigns with the same rigor, control, and accountability as their core performance channels.
Our AI-Native platform enables real-time content understanding at scale, simultaneous reasoning across hundreds of thousands of pieces of content, and intelligent allocation of multi-million dollar budgets. Our models apply more cross-platform performance signal than anyone else in the world, compounding with every campaign through a high-trust marketplace with accelerating network effects. The result is a flywheel: brands get the performance they've been chasing, creators get the intelligence and income they deserve, and Agentio becomes the infrastructure powering a generational shift in where media dollars flow.
The market agrees. Agentio has raised $56M at a $340M valuation, including a Series B led by Forerunner that followed our Series A within a calendar year. Backed by Benchmark, Craft, and AlleyCorp. Named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups, 2025. Named to Inc.'s Best Places to Work 2026, one of 10 companies nationally recognized in the "On the Rise: 0–4 Years in Business" category.
An $800B market. A once-in-a-generation technology shift. This is the moment. This is the team. Come build something generational with us.
The role
Our Finance & Ops function is scaling alongside the business and you’ll be the founding member of the Strategic Finance team, reporting directly to our VP, Finance & Ops. This is a rare chance to help build the strategic backbone of a category-defining marketplace from the ground up. Strategic Finance at Agentio is an offensive function. Our job is not to find clever ways to spend less. It is to understand where capital can make the business move faster, then deploy it with precision.
That means knowing the business cold: every input, output, constraint, and lever. Where is demand converting? Where is supply tight? Where is liquidity breaking? Where does one more dollar create compounding returns? The work is to find those moments before they are obvious, size them, fund them, and prove them.
Agentio's growth depends on liquidity. Brands need to find the right creators. Creators need to deliver. Both sides need to come back. Strategic Finance puts a number on those dynamics and turns them into operating bets.
The best Strategic Finance work does not look like a budget you protected. It looks like a P&L that got bigger because you found the lever and had the conviction to push it. We do not just forecast the P&L. We design the experiments that change it.
What You’ll Own
The main job is capital allocation. You frame the big spend decisions (the next dollar of incentive, headcount, or product investment), build the business case, and bring a real point of view instead of a menu of options. You’ll do that by:
Marketplace dynamics & liquidity economics
Agentio enables marketers to buy creator led ads as easily and scalably as Meta or Google ads—automating sourcing, pricing, contracting, delivery, and measurement—so work that took months now happens in minutes.
We're on a mission to transform a $800B digital ad ecosystem by shifting digital ad spend into the hands of creators. That means better outcomes for marketers and enabling creators to live off their work—finally being paid in proportion to the value they create. That shift is accelerating: Unilever's CEO has said the company will move roughly half of its ad budget into social and creators—Unilever is among the world's largest advertisers, spending around $9–10B annually. As these dollars move, they need performance-grade pipes; Agentio is how those dollars flow to creators with the speed, control, and measurement marketers expect. We enable brands like Uber, DoorDash, and Bombas to run creator campaigns with the same rigor, control, and accountability as their core performance channels.
Our AI-Native platform enables real-time content understanding at scale, simultaneous reasoning across hundreds of thousands of pieces of content, and intelligent allocation of multi-million dollar budgets. Our models apply more cross-platform performance signal than anyone else in the world, compounding with every campaign through a high-trust marketplace with accelerating network effects. The result is a flywheel: brands get the performance they've been chasing, creators get the intelligence and income they deserve, and Agentio becomes the infrastructure powering a generational shift in where media dollars flow.
The market agrees. Agentio has raised $56M at a $340M valuation, including a Series B led by Forerunner that followed our Series A within a calendar year. Backed by Benchmark, Craft, and AlleyCorp. Named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups, 2025. Named to Inc.'s Best Places to Work 2026, one of 10 companies nationally recognized in the "On the Rise: 0–4 Years in Business" category.
An $800B market. A once-in-a-generation technology shift. This is the moment. This is the team. Come build something generational with us.
The role
Our Finance & Ops function is scaling alongside the business and you’ll be the founding member of the Strategic Finance team, reporting directly to our VP, Finance & Ops. This is a rare chance to help build the strategic backbone of a category-defining marketplace from the ground up. Strategic Finance at Agentio is an offensive function. Our job is not to find clever ways to spend less. It is to understand where capital can make the business move faster, then deploy it with precision.
That means knowing the business cold: every input, output, constraint, and lever. Where is demand converting? Where is supply tight? Where is liquidity breaking? Where does one more dollar create compounding returns? The work is to find those moments before they are obvious, size them, fund them, and prove them.
Agentio's growth depends on liquidity. Brands need to find the right creators. Creators need to deliver. Both sides need to come back. Strategic Finance puts a number on those dynamics and turns them into operating bets.
The best Strategic Finance work does not look like a budget you protected. It looks like a P&L that got bigger because you found the lever and had the conviction to push it. We do not just forecast the P&L. We design the experiments that change it.
What You’ll Own
The main job is capital allocation. You frame the big spend decisions (the next dollar of incentive, headcount, or product investment), build the business case, and bring a real point of view instead of a menu of options. You’ll do that by:
Marketplace dynamics & liquidity economics
- Build and maintain the economic model of the marketplace: take rate, fill rate, match rate, wallet share, ad spend (the north star), and how they move together.
- Diagnose liquidity health as a financial question, not just an ops one — where bids go unfilled, where supply sits idle, and what each is costing us.
- Translate flywheel mechanics into dollars: quantify how a change on one side of the market compounds through to Ad Spend and net revenue.
- Partner closely with Eng, Product, and Data Science to own incentive design and its financial impact. Design creator- and brand-side incentive experiments end-to-end: hypothesis, financial model, success criteria, and the readout that decides whether it scales or dies.
- Own the economics of live experiments, including the counterfactual and the breakeven.
- Own pricing strategy across both sides of the marketplace, including take-rate structure, tiered pricing, creator earnings floors, and sensitivity modeling.
- Model the second-order effects: what a pricing move does to supply behavior, demand elasticity, and net revenue, not just the first-order rate change.
- Partner with Product Marketing on pricing and packaging.
- Build and own the long-range model and the bottoms-up projection blocks that leadership and the board run against.
- Drive scenario planning and the "what would have to be true" cases behind each major bet.
- Connect the forecast to operating reality: when actuals diverge, find the driver and feed it back into the model and the strategy.
- 6-10 years across banking, marketplaces, consumer, or high-growth companies where you've owned a number and felt the difference between a model that's right and a bet that worked.
- You think in unit economics and second-order effects, not just totals. You instinctively ask what a change does to the other side of the market.
- You've designed experiments, not just analyzed them after the fact. You know how to structure a test so the readout is decision-grade.
- You're a builder. You'd rather ship a rough model that changes a decision this week than a perfect one next month (speed > precision when it's a two-way door).
- You bring a point of view and can defend it with insight, then commit when the call goes the other way.
- You’re fluent in AI data tools to get your own answers instead of waiting in a queue.
- Flexible PTO – Take the time you need to recharge
- Comprehensive Health Coverage – Top medical plan through Aetna
- Dental & Vision Plans – Protect your smile and your sight with coverage from Guardian
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Invest in your future while you build your career
- $100 Monthly Lifestyle Credit – Use it to shop with our amazing Agentio Brand Partners
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
- Dinner provided Monday - ThursdayBenefits & Perks
- Fully subsidized gold tier access on Wellhub (Includes LifeTime, Barry's, Solidcore, Headspace, etc)
- Gym in the building! —Your workout, right downstairs
Salary : $9 - $10