Founding Controller, Product & Customer Operations
Company websitesynthetic.ai (Synthetic, opens in new tab)
Base salary $250K to $275K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About Synthetic
Building a software product has never been easier. But running the business side is still tedious as hell.
From contracts, to billing, to getting paid, to keeping the books, Synthetic handles the financial side of a software business from start to finish, so founders can get back to building.
The software companies that we're selling to have intense accounting pain. They have a QuickBooks account, a Stripe account, and an unholy menagerie of spreadsheets and agent workflows holding it together.
Instead of trying to throw an AI agent at broken software to try to fix it, we rebuilt all the software from the ground up. We rebuilt contracts, accounting, billing, invoicing, and payments. Then we wired up agents that do the busywork in between. The result is a tailor-made solution for software companies that "just works" out of the box. We can guarantee our customers that the numbers are correct, because we own every system that touches the numbers. And it looks visually stunning.
You can read more about us here. We recently raised $10M from investors like Khosla Ventures and Tobi Lütke. We're here to build a company that wins big, which is why we work in-person in our San Francisco office 6 days a week. But we care about winning, not larping, so we're flexible on hours.
About the Role
We'll be launching the product soon. This is our first dedicated accounting hire, and it's a wear-all-the-hats role: part customer service, part AI quality control, part process building, part product research. You report directly to the founder.
Our customers trust Synthetic with their money, and our system changes constantly. Your job is to make sure nothing breaks or falls through the cracks for them while we move fast. Sometimes a system is working properly but poorly explained, and you bridge the gap with the customer until we fix it. And sometimes there's a process we haven't automated yet, like customer onboarding today, and you handle it by hand until it makes sense for an engineer to build it. You'll also be building business processes for customer support on the fly.
This job will change every quarter. One perk: you'll never do a bank reconciliation. That part is already completely autonomous.
Job Requirements
A CPA.
Controller experience at a software company. You've run real SaaS books.
Fluency in ASC 606, billing, invoicing, and accrual bookkeeping for software businesses.
Clients love you.
You've vibe coded a few things you're happy to show off.
Compensation
$250K – $275K salary
0.2% – 0.3% fully diluted equity
Health benefits
We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates worldwide
Source: Synthetic on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($250,000) is above 97% of the 154 Customer Success & Support roles in California listed on this site; 1 other lists the same floor. Their median floor is $144,550; the middle half runs from $120,000 to $171,950.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingFounding Controller, Product & Customer Operations$250K to $275K
Founding Growth Marketer$300K to $350K
Brand Designer$300K to $350K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Founding Controller, Product & Customer Operations (this listing) | $250K - $275K |
| Founding Growth Marketer | $300K - $350K |
| Brand Designer | $300K - $350K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-25
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Core team
USD 250,000 – 275,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary · Core team
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