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Strategic Finance Manager

ChipAgents · San Jose · On-site

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About ChipAgents

AI-driven chip design and verification with ChipAgents. Iterate on Your Chip Design & Verification 10x Faster by Collaborating with ChipAgents in Your Favorite Code Editor. Backed by Bessemer.

About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Finance & Pricing Lead to help build and own the financial infrastructure that powers ChipAgents' growth. This role sits at the intersection of our finance, sales, and R&D efforts, translating complex enterprise deals, compute economics, and partnership structures into clear pricing strategy, forecasts, and board-ready analysis. You'll play a central role in building the financial rigor and strategic clarity that lets ChipAgents scale sustainably as the business and product grow.

What they're looking for

  • 4–6 years of experience in pricing, investment banking, investing, or FP&A at a high-growth or consumption-based business, with hands-on work in forecasting, financial modeling, or pricing strategy
  • Strong track record building and maintaining financial models at scale, including revenue forecasting, budgeting, and scenario/ROI analysis
  • Comfort working directly with sales, partnerships, and external stakeholders to structure and evaluate complex enterprise or partnership agreements
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills (Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, or similar)
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with partnerships, product, and R&D teams in a fast-moving environment
More about this role

ChipAgents is revolutionizing chip design with agentic-AI workflows and the industry’s first domain specific LLM for chip design, Renoir. Founded by experts in AI and semiconductor design, we partner with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscalers, and cutting-edge startups. Our platform accelerates RTL development, functional verification, and formal verification, unlocking new levels of productivity and design quality.

We are looking for a Strategic Finance & Pricing Lead to help build and own the financial infrastructure that powers ChipAgents' growth. This role sits at the intersection of our finance, sales, and R&D efforts, translating complex enterprise deals, compute economics, and partnership structures into clear pricing strategy, forecasts, and board-ready analysis. You'll play a central role in building the financial rigor and strategic clarity that lets ChipAgents scale sustainably as the business and product grow.

Own forecasting and budgeting across the business

Define and evolve pricing strategy for complex enterprise, midmarket, SMB customers across a variety of LLM and non-LLM based products

Act as deal desk for strategic sales, understanding the financial...

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