The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.
About the role
As the Controller at LanceDB, you will own the company’s accounting function and build the financial infrastructure needed to support the next stage of growth. You'll partner closely with the Leadership team, GTM and Engineering to deliver a reliable financial close, maintain strong financial controls and compliance, and provide leaders with clear and timely financial information.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally at a high-growth technology or SaaS company
- Proven track record of building accounting functions, systems, processes, and controls from the ground up and scale them as the business grows
- Strong technical accounting foundation and deep understanding of US GAAP
- Excellent analytical, organizational, communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous and highly collaborative environment
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
More about this role
AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles.
As the Controller at LanceDB, you will own the company’s accounting function and build the financial infrastructure needed to support the next stage of growth.
You'll partner closely with the Leadership team, GTM and Engineering to deliver a reliable financial close, maintain strong financial controls and compliance, and provide leaders with clear and timely financial information.
This is an opportunity to be the first Controller at a fast-growing company and build a critical function from the ground up. You’ll have significant ownership over the accounting function and the opportunity to establish the processes, systems and team that will support LanceDB through its next phases of growth.
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