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Head of Finance

Tensec · Palo Alto · Remote

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About Tensec

Backed by Costanoa Ventures.

About the role

Tensec is growing fast. Our finance decisions are getting harder and more valuable each day. Goods move around the world; the money that pays for them crosses multiple currencies and Tensec's global entities, and revenue moves with volume, spread, and FX. The decisions ahead are the good kind: how to price, how aggressively to invest, which markets to open next. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, or venture/growth investing, with at least 3 leading finance at a venture-backed startup. Director or Senior Director level, ready to own the function
  • Fintech, payments, or FX experience, where revenue moves with transaction volume and spread
  • Financial models you built yourself: three-statement, driver-based, scenario-ready
  • At least one priced equity round run or co-run end to end: model, data room, diligence, close
  • Cap table and equity: 409A process, pro forma dilution, option grants and exercises, ISO/NSO mechanics, Carta or similar
  • Cash, burn, and runway management where running out was a real possibility
More about this role

Tensec is Vertical AI for cross-border trade. Trade is two flows, money and goods, and the trading companies that move them: freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs brokers, 4PLs — still run both on systems built for large corporations and a lot of manual work. Tensec is the agentic AI layer those companies use to move both flows for their importer and exporter clients. Cross-border B2B is a $50 trillion market and we're building the version all global trading companies choose to use.

We started with clients in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico and today enable their transactions across 50+ countries, onboarding enterprise trading companies whose trade flows run to billions of dollars a year across every major corridor. Founded in 2023 by a team that has built and exited startups and run global teams at Meta, PayPal, Credit Karma, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Tensec is backed by world-class investors such as Quiet Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Renegade Partners, Clocktower, and WillowTree.

Tensec is growing fast. Our finance decisions are getting harder and more valuable each day. Goods move around the world; the money that pays...

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