Engine AI turns fragmented Capital Markets data into one unified intelligence layer — delivering trusted, explainable insights with 90%+ accuracy.
About the role
Engine is a high-growth, multi-entity travel marketplace with multiple revenue streams, international operations, a company-branded charge card, and a disciplined 5-day close. Accounting here already runs lean and AI-forward. We are hiring a Controller to take it to the next level of excellence, building on the automation and AI already in place and scaling a modern close through Engine’s next phase of growth.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership, including Controller, Assistant Controller, or equivalent responsibility in a high-growth environment. CPA strongly preferred
- Track Record: A history of improving an established accounting function, not just maintaining one
- Talent Leadership: Proven ability to act as a talent magnet, improving the talent bar, developing the team, and building leadership depth
- Automation & AI: An AI-native, automation-forward operating style, with demonstrated success reducing manual work and creating measurable operating leverage
- Judgment & Pace: Strong judgment and decisive pace, comfortable making calls with incomplete information and operating strategically while staying close to execution
- Travel, marketplace, fintech, payments, card-program, or high-volume transaction accounting experience
More about this role
Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel. For a decade, Engine has built the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel, serving over 38,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, along with leading travel and AI companies that build on Engine's infrastructure. One system powers business travel, group travel, human agents, and AI agents.
That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020–2026).
We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career. Every hire raises the bar.
Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us.
Engine is a high-growth, multi-entity travel marketplace with multiple revenue streams, international operations, a company-branded charge card, and a disciplined 5-day close. Accounting here already runs lean and AI-forward.
We are hiring a Controller to...
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