First Finance Hire
Chai Discovery · San Francisco office
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own Chai's financial operating system end to end as first finance hire.
- Build trusted view of spend and own financial model and cash forecast.
- Lead audit readiness and guide capital allocation as company scales.
Ideal candidate
Financial generalist with startup experience who pairs operational rigor with strong judgment and owns outcomes end to end. Hands-on, low-ego operator who makes complexity disappear to enable fast, high-velocity scaling.
Requirements
- Meaningful experience inside a startup, ideally as early finance hire or second-in-command
- Background spanning strategic finance, banking, or accounting grown into broader finance role
- Hands-on ability to own books, close process, cash forecast, vendors and audit readiness
Lab profile
About Chai Discovery
Builds an AI computer-aided design suite for molecules.
What they build
- Computer-aided molecular design suite
- AI biologics design tools
- Antibody design platform
Known for
- Molecular pre-training research
- Antibody engineering
- Pharma deployment
Key facts
- Collaborations with Eli Lilly, GSK and Pfizer
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