Acely

Role Description We’re looking for a Head of Finance to help lead Acely through our next stage of growth. This is a high-leverage, high-impact role for someone who can own the full finance function, including: - Financial reporting - Accounting oversight - Compliance - Cash management - FP&A - Business planning - Board reporting - Strategic decision support You’ll ensure the business has clean numbers, strong operating rhythms, and the financial insight needed to make better decisions faster. This role will index most strongly on strategic finance, partnering closely with the CEO and leadership team on: - Growth strategy - Resource allocation - Unit economics - Scenario planning - Scaling aggressively but efficiently You'll be hands-on and close to the details, up-leveling the systems, processes, and insights that help Acely operate like a larger company without losing the speed and ownership of a lean startup. What You'll Do - Own Acely’s finance function end-to-end, including FP&A, financial reporting, accounting oversight, compliance, cash management, and board reporting. - Ensure continuity and rigor across existing finance processes while improving speed, clarity, accuracy, and strategic impact. - Maintain and evolve the company’s operating model, including revenue forecasting, expense planning, headcount planning, cash projections, and scenario analysis. - Partner with the CEO and leadership team on strategic planning, resource allocation, growth investments, pricing, unit economics, and company-wide operating priorities. - Own financial reporting and monthly close processes in partnership with external accounting resources, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate internal controls. - Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles, translating company strategy into actionable financial plans. - Partner with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Customer Support to connect financial outcomes to operating drivers. - Analyze growth performance across channels and customer segments, helping the team understand what is working, where to invest, and where to pull back. - Support board reporting by preparing clear, concise, insight-driven financial updates and strategic analysis. - Own vendor management, contract review support, expense controls, and purchasing discipline. - Manage compliance requirements, tax coordination, state registrations, insurance, and other finance-related operational needs. - Help prepare the company for potential future financing conversations, strategic partnerships, and diligence processes. - Use modern tools, automation, and AI-native workflows to create leverage across reporting, analysis, forecasting, and operational finance. Qualifications - 8+ years of finance experience, ideally across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, growth equity, venture-backed startups, or high-growth consumer subscription businesses. - Strong strategic finance skill set, with the ability to connect financial analysis to company strategy and operating decisions. - Demonstrated ability to own financial models, forecasts, budgets, and scenario plans. - Deep understanding of SaaS or consumer subscription metrics, including ARR, retention, CAC, LTV, ROAS, payback, gross margin, burn, runway, and cash conversion. - Comfortable owning financial reporting and accounting oversight, even if supported by external accounting partners. - Strong analytical judgment: you can work through ambiguity, identify the signal in the noise, and translate data into clear recommendations. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present financial concepts clearly and concisely to executives, investors, and cross-functional partners. - High ownership and strong attention to detail: you care deeply about accuracy, but you also know how to move quickly. - Comfortable operating in a lean startup environment where you will need to be both strategic and hands-on. - Strong business judgment and intellectual curiosity across growth, product, pricing, operations, and company strategy. - Low ego, high integrity, and motivated to help build something meaningful. - A team player who is able to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners. Requirements - Not required, but a strong plus: - Experience in consumer subscription, edtech, marketplace, or prosumer businesses. - Experience supporting a venture-backed company through a fundraise, strategic process, or board-heavy operating cadence. - Experience with paid acquisition economics and performance marketing analysis. - Experience building AI-enabled workflows for reporting, analysis, forecasting, or finance operations. Benefits - Competitive salary ($200 - $250k based on experience) + equity. - Remote-first (with optional quarterly SF meetups). - Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision). - 401(k) with company match. - Flexible PTO + company holidays. - Professional development budget. - Home office stipend. - Wellness resources. - Monthly hackathons.

Role Description We’re looking for a creative, hands on Social Media Lead (opportunity for contract-to-hire) to drive and execute our brand presence on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. You’ll own social media end to end across all platforms with full responsibility for content creation, community management and overall impact. You will be responsible for delivering month over month engagement and demonstrating the impact of social media content on overall user growth. - Build a comprehensive social media strategy to bring the brand to life across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. - Design and execute social media campaigns across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. - Film and edit videos to post across all channels. - Ideate on and execute new content and formats. - Build AI native workflows to optimize how we test, learn and personalize the user journey from off platform to in product. - Stay on top of trends across social media and marketing and propose on-brand content to align with trends. - Build and optimize a holistic content calendar. - Partner with marketing and product to support key initiatives and launches. - Provide direct, data-backed insights to leadership on what’s working and where to invest. Qualifications - 4+ years running social media in-house, ideally for a consumer subscription product. - Proven track record of creating content that appeals to a high school audience. - Demonstrated track record of scaling social media accounts for a 0-to-1 brand. - Deep expertise in Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. - Analytical and data-driven: you track your content beyond just impressions to engagement and impact. - Strong creative instincts: you know what makes content work and you know how and when to create and launch new content. - Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean team: you move fast, stay close to the work, and take responsibility for outcomes. - Strong cross-functional communication skills that enable you to present your ideas clearly and concisely to both peers and executive leadership. - Naturally curious and hands-on: you’re constantly testing new tools, experimenting with workflows, and finding ways to move faster and get more leverage from your time. - Low ego, high ownership, and motivated to win. Requirements This is a rare opportunity to join a company at the exact right moment, where product-market fit is proven, the mission is clear, and the canvas is still blank enough for your fingerprints to shape what comes next. You’ll own social media end-to-end, with the autonomy to test, scale, and define how Acely leverages social media marketing. Your work will directly impact our brand and how we grow as a company. Benefits - Competitive salary ($80 - $120K based on experience) + equity. - Remote-first (with optional quarterly SF meetups). - Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision). - 401(k) with company match. - Flexible PTO + company holidays. - Professional development budget. - Home office stipend. - Wellness resources. - Monthly hackathons.

Role Description We’re looking for a hands-on performance marketer who lives inside the ad platforms, obsesses over ROAS, CAC and LTV and knows how to scale efficiently. You’ll own paid acquisition end-to-end across Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit, and beyond, with full responsibility for strategy, execution, and outcomes. This is a builder role centered on high-velocity experimentation. You’re at your best turning hypotheses into tests, reading the data, iterating quickly, and turning signal into scale. The old performance marketing playbooks are being rewritten by AI. The edge now comes from speed, curiosity, and embracing the latest tools to gain that competitive edge. You’re a creative problem solver who knows how to leverage paid media to unlock scalable growth levers that deliver top-level impact. What You'll Do - Design and execute paid acquisition campaigns across multiple channels with a focus on social and search to start - Drive efficient growth with a relentless focus on CAC, LTV, ROAS, and payback period - Set channel strategy, budget allocation, and scaling roadmap - Build and optimize campaign structure across targeting, bidding, creative, and landing pages - Run a high-velocity experimentation engine across creative, audiences, and funnels; develop a comprehensive A/B testing framework from hypotheses to measurable, scalable insights that drive growth - Partner with design to produce a comprehensive creative approach to build a pipeline of platform-native content that converts - Work closely with Product and Engineering to improve attribution, tracking, and conversion rates - Manage full funnel performance metrics that clearly connect spend to revenue and inform decisions - Own event tracking strategy and measurement infrastructure - Provide direct, data-backed insights to leadership on what’s working and where to invest - Build AI native workflows to optimize how we test, learn and personalize the user journey from off platform to in product Qualifications - 4+ years running paid acquisition in-house, ideally for a consumer subscription product - Demonstrated track record of scaling spend while maintaining or improving CAC/ROAS - Deep expertise in Meta and Google; TikTok and Reddit experience a plus - Performance-obsessed: you live in CAC, LTV, ROAS, and payback, and track them daily - Strong creative instincts: you know what makes a good ad work and you know how and when to iterate and infuse new content into campaigns - Full-funnel thinker: you can diagnose issues across creative, targeting, landing pages, and product - Comfortable with ambiguity and a lean team: you move fast, stay close to the work, and take responsibility for outcomes - Strong cross-functional communication skills that enable you to present your ideas clearly and concisely to both peers and executive leadership - Naturally curious and hands-on: you’re constantly testing new tools, experimenting with workflows, and finding ways to move faster and get more leverage from your time - Low ego, high ownership, and motivated to win Requirements - Not required, but a strong plus: - Data analysis and statistical modeling experience - Demonstrable experience working with or building modern AI agentic systems - Comfort with ambiguity and wearing multiple hats in a fast-paced startup Benefits - Competitive salary ($120 - $160k based on experience) + equity - Remote-first (with optional quarterly SF meetups) - Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision) - 401(k) with company match - Flexible PTO + company holidays - Professional development budget - Home office stipend - Wellness resources - Monthly hackathons