Senior Director, Accounting

The Opportunity

We're hiring our Senior Director of Accounting to lead the operational accounting function as Deepgram scales toward IPO. Reporting to — and working alongside — the Chief Accounting Officer, you'll lead the team that runs the monthly close, the general ledger, every sub-ledger (AP, AR, payroll), and the accounting systems — including the migration off Xero onto the platform we select for the next phase.

This is a senior leadership seat in a function being built in real time. We've never been audited. We're on a small-business ERP. The team is intentionally lean. The 18 months ahead require an accounting leader who has stood up the operational accounting function at first-audit, pre-IPO companies before — not someone who has only stewarded one.

You'll work in close partnership with an operationally engaged CAO. The CAO owns audit firm selection, the partner-level audit relationship, and treasury, and remains hands-on across close, ERP, and technical accounting partnership. You'll lead the team, lead the system, own delivery — and as the function matures, scale into broader scope.

What you'll do

• Lead the operational accounting function. Monthly and quarterly close, GL integrity, sub-ledger architecture, and the systems that run them. Design the function for first-audit and the year that follows.
• Lead the ERP migration. Partner with the CAO on platform selection (NetSuite, Rillet, Everest, and others under evaluation), then lead implementation end-to-end.
• Lead the team. Operational accounting — close/GL, AP, AR, payroll, accounting systems. Develop the managers under you. Hire the layer beneath them. Set the bar for the function.
• Operationalize technical accounting in partnership with the Director, Technical Accounting. Instrument the GL and sub-ledgers for ASC 718, 606, 842, 340, and 805. You don't write policy; you build the system that makes it executable.
• Deliver Year-1 audit operationally. Stand up PBC delivery. Codify accounting policies in the system. Defend the opening balance sheet. The CAO owns the partner relationship; you own the system that delivers fieldwork.
• Build the SOX control environment. Design the operational control perimeter from scratch, ahead of IPO. Effective, not heavy.
• Lead the AI-native transformation of operational accounting. The system should get easier as the company grows.
• Scale with the function. As scope expands, take on broader accounting leadership — succession planning, cross-functional finance partnership, board-level support to the CAO.

It would be great if you had

• 12+ years of accounting experience, with at least 6 in a senior operating role at a high-growth company. Pre-IPO or recently public is ideal.
• Experience taking a company through its first audit — not its first audit at a new firm, its first ever.
• Direct experience leading an ERP migration end-to-end at meaningful scale.
• Track record of designing an operational accounting function — not just running one. You've made the architecture choices that shape what the team becomes.
• Operational fluency in ASC 718, 606, and 842 — not policy authorship, but knowing what the GL and sub-ledgers need to deliver.
• Experience standing up SOX from scratch.
• Demonstrable AI-native practice you've built into a real accounting function — your team using AI daily, not just you.
• Experience managing managers and developing senior leaders underneath you. Multi-entity exposure relevant as our footprint grows.
• CPA preferred, not required.