VP of Finance

About AirGarage AirGarage is on a mission to bring real estate online, starting with parking. We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual, labor-intensive operations with a unified, data-rich operating system for parking real estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more. By building all of our technology in-house, we are able to deliver a magical experience for drivers while providing real-time visibility and revenue increases of 20-50% or more for real estate owners. That’s why national real‑estate leaders like Hines and Greystar, as well as technology companies like Meta, partner with AirGarage to optimize their parking facilities. AirGarage uses datapoints like real-time occupancy, local events, weather, driver behavior, competitor pricing, and more to bring true intelligence to real estate owners’ assets for the first time. We’re investing aggressively to make the physical world legible to a digital system: cameras, sensors, and software that generate a firehose of real-time data about the world around us. That data fuels models and algorithms that allow us to optimize performance at each property while giving owners the clarity and control they’ve never had before. Before you can optimize an asset, you need to observe it. Before you can observe it, you need to bring it online. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. 26% of the land area in the median American urban core is dedicated to parking. We are backed by top tier investors including Headline Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more. Want to learn more about AirGarage and the problem we're tackling? Check out these podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NkDK51E4 https://youtu.be/_8aM6NQHYiE?si=p5WIujBWUA1sG-b7 THE ROLE 💼 As our first VP of Finance, you’ll be the hands-on builder who turns a solid foundation into a high-leverage finance function. You’ll serve as a thought partner to our founders and leadership team, not a scorekeeper. Your job is to shape decisions, not just model them after they're made. That means working directly with product, operations, sales, and engineering to sharpen how we plan, decide, and execute as we scale. This is not a “present the dashboard once a month” role. You’ll own our forward-looking model, obsess every day over unit economics across hundreds of real-world locations, and work with our in-house accounting team to upgrade our systems from scrappy to scalable (think: QuickBooks → ERP). You’ll also take the wheel on cap table management, vendor negotiations, investor readiness, and the legal/G&A odds-and-ends that keep a growing company running and enable the rest of the leadership team to focus on building and selling our product to customers. This job is for someone who’s done it before (”it” meaning: meaningfully owned finance at a rapidly scaling venture-backed company). You’ll be the cornerstone of our finance org and will shape the processes, systems, and culture that help AirGarage compound, turning messy reality into crisp signal so the rest of the company can move faster with confidence. WHAT YOU WILL DO 📊 - Own the model, not just the math: Maintain and continuously improve a driver-based, forward-looking model that maps to reality. Build scenarios (base/low/high), pressure-test assumptions, and translate “levers” into clear tradeoffs for leadership. - Live in our unit economics: Track and improve margins and P&Ls by location; cohort and segment intelligently (region, seasonality, property type, etc.); surface insights and partner with the Operations team to increase contribution margin and reduce complexity as we scale. - Turn d…