Head of Finance | $20M+ Series A | High-Growth AI
Ember Search
New York, NY · Posted November 4, 2026
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November 2026
- #1Best cities for operations jobs1,429 openings · of 100
- #1Best cities for sales jobs2,774 openings · of 78
- #1Best cities for finance jobs1,932 openings · of 78
- #1Best cities for data and analytics jobs1,713 openings · of 58
- #1Best cities for HR jobs994 openings · of 30
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Rankings about finance jobs
- Best cities for finance jobs #1 New York (1,932 openings)
- Best cities for finance pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($162k)
- Most requested AI skills in finance jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (4.3%)
- AI tools named most often in finance jobs #1 Claude (0.55%)
- Employers with the most finance jobs #1 Amazon (475 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 30 open head of finance listings that state pay, the middle half runs $194,500 to $239,500 and the median is $214,000.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among financial managers, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for financial managers: 39% (high).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
...Ember Search has been retained by a rapidly scaling Series A AI company in NYC to hire their first VP of Finance. The company has gone from effectively zero to approaching $10M in ARR in roughly 12 months, while already winning blue-chip enterprise customers across...