What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Finance position at LangChain?
About LangChain
At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We help developers build mission-critical AI applications across the entire agent development lifecycle. Our open source frameworks — LangChain and LangGraph — see over 70 million downloads per month. Developers rely on LangChain for composable integrations and LangGraph for controllable agent orchestration. Our commercial agent platform, consisting of LangSmith and LangGraph Platform, enables teams to build, test, run, and manage agents at scale across their organization.
Founded in 2023, LangChain powers top engineering teams at companies like Replit, Lovable, Clay, Klarna, LinkedIn, and more.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Head of Finance to lead the function and build a high-performing team that enables LangChain to scale quickly. We are a fast growing (10x ), efficient startup serving thousands of customers including some of the largest enterprises (Rakuten, Cisco, Bridgewater, Google), as well as the most innovative startups (Lovable, Mercor, Replit, Clay). This role is equal parts operational and strategic and is a key leader hire for the company. We are looking for someone with FP&A roots and will bring on partners for accounting / corporate finance work.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Finance & Accounting
At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We help developers build mission-critical AI applications across the entire agent development lifecycle. Our open source frameworks — LangChain and LangGraph — see over 70 million downloads per month. Developers rely on LangChain for composable integrations and LangGraph for controllable agent orchestration. Our commercial agent platform, consisting of LangSmith and LangGraph Platform, enables teams to build, test, run, and manage agents at scale across their organization.
Founded in 2023, LangChain powers top engineering teams at companies like Replit, Lovable, Clay, Klarna, LinkedIn, and more.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Head of Finance to lead the function and build a high-performing team that enables LangChain to scale quickly. We are a fast growing (10x ), efficient startup serving thousands of customers including some of the largest enterprises (Rakuten, Cisco, Bridgewater, Google), as well as the most innovative startups (Lovable, Mercor, Replit, Clay). This role is equal parts operational and strategic and is a key leader hire for the company. We are looking for someone with FP&A roots and will bring on partners for accounting / corporate finance work.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Finance & Accounting
- Oversee all core finance operations including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash management.
- Manage our external accounting partner to ensure accurate and timely tax filings, compliance, and audits.
- Own our 409A valuation process.
- Own financial systems and tools that support scalable processes and real-time insights, including selection and implementation of an ERP platform.
- Ensure internal controls and financial processes that scale with the business.
- Develop annual operating plans and budgets with a strong focus on:
- GTM finance: marketing funnel / pipeline and sales capacity planning to achieve big growth targets.
- Headcount and expense planning across departments.
- Establish KPIs to track financial and operational health of the business.
- Support board reporting, fundraising, and strategic initiatives.
- Support pricing strategy for new product launches in partnership with Sales and EPD.
- Gross margin and unit economics analysis; identify opportunities to drive efficiency.
- 8 years of finance experience, with at least 3 years at a high-growth, mid to late stage startup ($50M ARR).
- Deep understanding of b2b GTM finance, including marketing pipeline and sales capacity planning.
- Prior experience working with or managing accounting firms.
- Type-A, sweat the details person, but also able to see the big picture and know what excellent looks like — constantly raising the bar and achieving lofty goals
- Excited to work in person in SF or NY
- Bonus if you have open source startup experience
- Competitive salary and equity stake for role and stage of company. Commensurate with experience.
- Annual salary range: $220,000 - $260,000 USD
Salary : $220,000 - $260,000
