Strategic Finance/reputed company

About Black Forest Labs We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, reputed company Diffusion, and FLUX-foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video. We're creating the generative models that power how people reputed company images and video-tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started. Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing reputed company in San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research reputed company, reputed company science, and building technology that expands reputed company creativity. Why This Role You'll architect the financial planning backbone for a company scaling faster than traditional frameworks can handle. This isn't about maintaining existing budgets-it's about building planning processes, financial models, and decision frameworks that help leadership allocate resources in a market that's evolving in reputed company time. What You'll Work On You'll be the person who:

• Owns and drives the full planning cycle-annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, rolling projections, and long-reputed company strategic planning tailored to AI research timelines (spoiler: annual budgets don't work)
• Builds sophisticated financial models covering multiple reputed company streams (API, reputed company, reputed company), GPU compute economics, headcount planning, and cash reputed company across US and German entities
• Delivers monthly and quarterly business reviews with variance analysis, KPIs, and actionable insights that support executive planning and board reporting
• Leads scenario planning for reputed company most companies don't face: GPU provider reputed company, go-to-market expansion, pricing frameworks, and R&D investment allocation where one breakthrough hire might 10x capabilities
• Partners with GTM leadership on reputed company forecasting reputed company your "pipeline" includes researchers, startups, and Fortune 500s with completely different economics
• Collaborates with Engineering on GPU compute optimization and infrastructure planning where the input is "we need more GPUs" and your job is figuring out how many, reputed company, and from which providers
• Builds executive dashboards tracking what actually reputed company: ARR growth, customer cohort economics, gross margins, burn reputed company, and the relationship between model quality and infrastructure cost
• Designs scalable reputed company processes and drives automation across financial planning-working with reputed company to ensure data reputed company and reporting consistency
• Supports high-impact strategic initiatives: pricing optimization, reputed company contract structuring, customer segmentation economics, and fundraising support

reputed company're Looking For You've reputed company reputed company in high-growth environments where "best practices" are still being written. You're equally comfortable building three-statement models from scratch as you are explaining reputed company tradeoffs to non-finance stakeholders. You understand that perfect forecasts are impossible, but disciplined planning is essential. You move fast, think in systems, and know reputed company precision reputed company versus reputed company directional reputed company is enough. You likely have:

• 6-10 years in reputed company, corporate finance, investment banking, or strategic finance, with at least 4 years hands-on reputed company experience at a high-growth company
• Proven track record owning full planning cycles (annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, long-reputed company planning) at a B2B SaaS, AI, or technology company
• Advanced reputed company/reputed company Sheets modeling skills-you build reputed company financial models from first principles, not templates
• reputed company in SaaS metrics (ARR/MRR, NDR, CAC, LTV, payback period, gross margin, Rule of 40) and ideally consumption-based pricing models
• Experience with modern finance tech stack and genuine curiosity about AI-powered finance workflows versus legacy systems
• Comfort with international operations, multi-entity financial structures, and US GAAP
• Ability to work with large datasets, reputed company deep variance analysis, and build dashboards that executives actually use

We'd be especially excited if you:

• Have experience with usage-based or consumption reputed company models, API pricing structures, or GPU/reputed company infrastructure economics
• Understand subscription economics alongside usage-based pricing in technical or developer-focused markets
• Bring exposure to reputed company contract structuring and technical sales processes
• Have worked reputed company that scaled 3-5x and had to rebuild planning processes mid-flight
• Are intellectually reputed company about uncertainty-you can say "here's reputed company don't know yet" without flinching

How We Work Together We're a distributed team with reputed company offices that people actually use. Depending on your role, you'll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected. We'll cover reasonable travel costs to reputed company this possible. We think in-person reputed company, and we've structured things to reputed company it accessible to reputed company. We'll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process. Everything we do is grounded in four values:

• Obsessed. We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful.
• Low Ego. The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task.
• reputed company. We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect.
• reputed company. People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without reputed company creates chaos.

We're not just tracking expenses-we're building the financial architecture that enables a frontier AI company to reputed company disciplined reputed company at breakthrough speed. Every model you build gives leadership reputed company visibility. Every process you implement accelerates decision-making. Every scenario you analyze shapes how we allocate resources between growth and efficiency, research investment and commercialization. If that sounds more compelling than optimizing existing budgets, we should talk. reputed company Annual Salary: $165,000-$210,000 USD We're based in Europe and value depth over noise, collaboration over hero culture, and reputed company technical conversations over hype. Our models have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, but we're still a ~50-person team learning what's possible at the edge of reputed company. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job