Financial Controller
Financial Controller at Pylon — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Pylon
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $210,000–$240,000 a year
- Posted: 2026-09-08
About this role
Pylon is the only agentic support platform, purpose-built for B2B companies. For leaders scaling AI-native support teams, Pylon lets humans and agents collaborate on customer work – investigating, resolving, and acting on every signal across every channel that matters.
Unlike platforms built before the AI era, Pylon enriches every interaction with deep account-level context, automates the low impact customer work, and surfaces answers before your team even has to ask. The result: faster responses, happier customers, and a system that continuously improves itself.
We're backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator. More than 1,500 companies including Linear, Cognition (makers of Devin), Modal Labs, and Incident.io http://Incident.io run their support and customer success workflows on Pylon. We're also featured on the Enterprise Tech 30 List https://www.enterprisetech30.com/.
The Role
We're hiring Pylon's first Controller. This is a high-impact, foundational role. You'll own all aspects of accounting, oversee relationships with third-parties, and support the business as we scale from Series B and beyond. The role reports to the VP of Finance.
What You'll Do
- Financial Reporting: Own month-end close processes, consolidations, and financial statement preparation in accordance with GAAP
- Accounting Operations: Oversee processes including AR (Order-to-Cash) and AP (Procure-to-Pay), partnering closely with sales, rev ops, legal, and operations teams
- Systems & Infrastructure: Implement and own the systems that will enable the business to scale (from ERP to reporting infrastructure)
- Controls & Audit Readiness: Design and implement robust internal controls and establish audit-ready processes
- Automation: Leverage AI agents and automation to reduce manual workflows such as transaction categorization and reconciliations
- External Relationships: Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners
Requirements
- Professional experience in a Controller or Senior Accounting Manager role at a high-growth venture-backed start-up
- Experience owning a full-cycle close process and audit process
- Experience building or improving systems and processes from the ground up, not just inheriting a mature function
- Deep technical accounting knowledge including ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidations
- CPA required
Nice to Haves
- Prior public accounting background
- First-audit experience
- ERP implementation or migration experience
This Role Might NOT Be For You If
- You want a team from day one; you’ll build the team as we scale
- You prefer steady-state maintenance over building and improving processes
- You don’t love being in the details
Our perks
🚆 Commuter benefits
🌱 Parental leave
🏝️ 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO
🗺️ Annual offsite
🍽 Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office
🏋️ Fitness stipend
More about Pylon
Funding: Series B led by a16z and BCV ($51M total raised)
Founders: Advith Chelikani https://www.linkedin.com/in/advith/, Robert Eng https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-eng/, and Marty Kausas https://www.linkedin.com/in/martykausas
Team: Currently 100+ and growing!
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