Artificial Intelligence

Director of Technical Accounting

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeDirector$245,000–$300,000 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Required skills

CPA
Big 4
high-growth
late-stage private company
AI infrastructure
usage-based models
subscription models
hardware-inclusive business models
data center compute infrastructure
evolving private company environment

Nice to have

structured financing
equipment financing
customer contracts
co-development
joint go-to-market
stock issuances

Role summary

Together AI is seeking a Director of Technical Accounting to establish and scale its technical accounting function. This role involves defining accounting policies and financial reporting standards, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP across complex areas like revenue recognition, leases, and equity. Responsibilities include serving as a subject matter expert, drafting technical memos, implementing new standards, and supporting audits and investor reporting. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including Big 4 and in-house roles, with deep expertise in various ASC topics. Experience in high-growth tech, particularly AI infrastructure with subscription or usage-based models, is preferred. The role requires strong communication skills and comfort in a fast-paced private company environment.

About the Role

We're seeking an exceptional technical accounting leader to establish and scale our technical accounting function as we grow. This is a rare opportunity to define accounting policy and financial reporting standards across a high-growth, dynamic environment, partnering with a world-class team, while ensuring rigorous quarterly, annual, and ad hoc investor reporting as a private company.

Responsibilities

Technical Accounting

Develop and maintain U.S. GAAP policies across complex areas, including revenue recognition (ASC 606), leases (ASC 842), fixed assets (ASC 360), debt/financing (ASC 470/835), business combinations (ASC 805), equity/stock compensation (ASC 718, ASC 505), and collaborative arrangements (ASC 808)

Serve as subject matter expert on complex transactions, including structured financing, equipment financing, and customer contracts

Partner with Revenue Accounting on revenue recognition for usage-based, subscription, and enterprise contracts, and evaluate the accounting treatment for collaborative arrangements, including co-development and joint go-to-market deals

Assist with lease accounting and capitalization policy for data center, colocation, and equipment arrangements

Advise on equity transactions (stock issuances, SAFEs, convertible instruments, stock-based compensation) and strategic investments/joint ventures

Draft technical accounting memos for significant transactions and non-standard deal structures

Monitor and implement new accounting standards

Partner with Legal, Tax, FP&A, Strategic Finance, and other teams on accounting implications of new contracts and transactions

Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process for technical accounting areas, including review of complex and judgmental journal entries and account reconciliations

Investor Reporting and Financial Statement Audit

Lead quarterly, annual and ad hoc investor financial reporting packages

Partner with FP&A, Legal, and Investor Relations to ensure clear, accurate disclosures

Support ad hoc reporting tied to fundraising, board reporting, or strategic transactions

Lead preparation of annual consolidated financial statements and manage the annual audit process, including coordination with external auditors

SOX & Internal Controls

Help lay the foundation for the Company's future SOX program, including initial risk assessment and control design

Develop internal control processes to support long-term audit readiness

Partner with external auditors on control-related discussions and early readiness efforts

Foster awareness of strong internal controls across Accounting, FP&A, and other teams

Process, Systems & Ad Hoc Projects

Build scalable technical accounting processes and documentation standards

Partner with Core Accounting, FP&A, and Systems teams on close processes and automation

Lead or support ad hoc projects, including new initiatives and process improvements

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA required

12+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally a mix of Big 4 and in-house, with experience building/scaling a technical accounting function

Deep expertise across ASC 606, 842, 360, 470/835, 805, 718, 505, and 808

Experience with investor-facing reporting, ideally at a high-growth or late-stage private company

Experience in high-growth tech or AI infrastructure preferred; familiarity with usage-based/subscription models, hardware-inclusive business models, and data center compute infrastructure a plus

Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving private company environment

Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting technical memos and investor-ready disclosures

Familiarity with emerging accounting issues for AI infrastructure companies (e.g., compute capitalization, data center leasing, partnership arrangements)

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $245k - $300k + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Application Policy

Please read each role carefully and apply to the position best suited to you. Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period, and applications beyond that limit will be automatically rejected. You may apply to additional roles 90 days after your last application.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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