Director of Finance

Director of Finance About Treeswift The way energy companies manage their infrastructure hasn't kept pace with the challenges they face. Treeswift is changing that, helping utilities modernize their field operations with AI-powered technology that reduces risk, improves reliability, and scales with the demands of a rapidly changing grid. We deploy AI-powered sensor systems into utility field operations, mounted on backpacks and vehicles, to collect LiDAR and imagery data at scale. Our models turn that raw data into actionable intelligence: reducing wildfire, outage, and regulatory risk from vegetation; preventing cost overruns on new construction; and accelerating recovery after storms. Since our first utility pilot in June 2024, we've grown to work with three of the five largest utilities in the United States. We're just getting started. Our team brings deep experience from Penn, Caltech, CMU, Palantir, Stripe, MongoDB, and Oracle, and we're backed by leading investors including Penny Pritzker's Inspired Capital. We're headquartered in lower Manhattan with an office in Philadelphia and field presence across the country. We're moving fast on a problem that matters. The work we do has real consequences for real people, and there's a lot of runway ahead, including time in the field with our customers. Come build it with us The Position: Treeswift is hiring its first Director of Finance, and the timing couldn't be more meaningful. We've proven our product works with some of the largest utilities in the country, and now we're building upon the financial foundation to match where we're headed. The right person for this role gets excited by complexity. We sit at the intersection of hardware, AI, and enterprise infrastructure - and that means our financial story doesn't fit neatly into any existing playbook. This is a role for someone who wants to build something genuinely new, at a company doing work that matters You'll report directly to our Co-Founder & CEO and serve as the financial backbone of the company, owning everything from growth modeling and capital strategy to pricing and investor storytelling. This isn't a role for someone who wants to maintain a system. It's for someone who wants to build one, who can be scrappy and strategic in the same week, and who gets energized by being close to the business they're helping to scale. What You'll Do: Strategic Finance and Business Partnership - Partner closely with the CEO and leadership team to shape and execute financial strategy, providing clear insights and recommendations that inform decisions across GTM, R&D, operations, and deal structuring - Build, own, and continuously refine the company's financial and operating model, translating our enterprise deal structure, hardware costs, and growth drivers into a narrative that is clear, compelling, and investor-ready - Develop financial analyses to support growth initiatives, including new product and pricing decisions, channel expansion, and capital allocation - Lead our fundraising process, including financial due diligence preparation, data room management, and capital structure strategy across equity, debt, and hardware financing partnerships - Maintain strong focus on accuracy, cash discipline, and the metrics that actually matter to the business Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting - Own Treeswift's financial model end-to-end, translating our deal structure, hardware costs, and growth drivers into a clear, compelling narrative for our employees, investors and our board - Define the metrics that matter: own and govern the key financial and operational metrics used to monitor business performance, ensuring consistent definitions and a single source of truth across the company - Partner with GTM, operations, and product to drive decisions that improve business economics - from gross margin and CAC to product-line profitability and net revenue retention - Work closely with Business Operations to bring f ... (truncated, view full listing at source)