Financial Controller

Role Summary

Pylon is the only agentic support platform, purpose-built for B2B companies. For leaders scaling AI-native support teams, Pylon lets humans and agents collaborate on customer work – investigating, resolving, and acting on every signal across every channel that matters.

Unlike platforms built before the AI era, Pylon enriches every interaction with deep account-level context, automates the low impact customer work, and surfaces answers before your team even has to ask. The result: faster responses, happier customers, and a system that continuously improves itself.

We're backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. More than 1,500 companies including Linear, Cognition (makers of Devin), Modal Labs, and Incident.io http://Incident.io run their support and customer success workflows on Pylon. We're also featured on the Enterprise Tech 30 List https://www.enterprisetech30.com/.

We're hiring Pylon's first Controller. This is a high-impact, foundational role. You'll own all aspects of accounting, oversee relationships with third-parties, and support the business as we scale from Series B and beyond. The role reports to the VP of Finance.

Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting: Own month-end close processes, consolidations, and financial statement preparation in accordance with GAAP
• Accounting Operations: Oversee processes including AR (Order-to-Cash) and AP (Procure-to-Pay), partnering closely with sales, rev ops, legal, and operations teams
• Systems & Infrastructure: Implement and own the systems that will enable the business to scale (from ERP to reporting infrastructure)
• Controls & Audit Readiness: Design and implement robust internal controls and establish audit-ready processes
• Automation: Leverage AI agents and automation to reduce manual workflows such as transaction categorization and reconciliations
• External Relationships: Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners

Requirements

• Professional experience in a Controller or Senior Accounting Manager role at a high-growth venture-backed start-up
• Experience owning a full-cycle close process and audit process
• Experience building or improving systems and processes from the ground up, not just inheriting a mature function
• Deep technical accounting knowledge including ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidations
• CPA required

Nice to Haves

• Prior public accounting background
• First-audit experience
• ERP implementation or migration experience

This Role Might NOT Be For You If

• You want a team from day one; you’ll build the team as we scale
• You prefer steady-state maintenance over building and improving processes
• You don’t love being in the details

Benefits

• 🚆 Commuter benefits
• 🌱 Parental leave
• 🏝️ 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO
• 🗺️ Annual offsite
• 🍽 Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office
• 🏋️ Fitness stipend
• More about Pylon
• Funding: Series B led by a16z and BCV ($51M total raised)
• Founders: Advith Chelikani https://www.linkedin.com/in/advith/, Robert Eng https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-eng/, and Marty Kausas https://www.linkedin.com/in/martykausas
• Team: Currently 100+ and growing!

About the Company

HOW WE HIRE: OUR VALUES

If you're the kind of person who does their best work when the problem is hard and the stakes are real, this is your place. Join us.

Put customers first. Hold yourself and others accountable to overdelivering for the people who depend on us. They're the reason we exist.

Think big. Default to first principles, question industry consensus, and refuse to be incremental. We're rebuilding a $13 trillion market.

Practice craftsmanship. Obsess over the details. Every pixel, every line of code, every candidate interaction matters.

Deliver results. Outcomes over optics. We measure ourselves by what we ship and move, not by activity.