Director of Finance - New York, NY at Blackbird Labs

<h3>About Blackbird:</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>About Our Team:</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We have <strong>passion for our product</strong> – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are <strong>elite performers</strong> – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We <strong>make others better</strong> – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>About the Job</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Blackbird is looking for our first Director of Finance to join our leadership team and build the financial foundation for our next phase of growth. This is a unique opportunity to shape the financial strategy and operations of a fast-growing fintech company from the ground up. You'll work directly with our CEO and executive team to drive strategic decision-making while building scalable financial processes and systems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As our founding finance leader, you'll need to be both strategic and hands-on, comfortable diving into the details while maintaining a big-picture perspective on our business trajectory.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Responsibilities</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strategic Leadership</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with leadership team on strategic planning, fundraising, and key business decisions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop and monitor key financial metrics and KPIs to drive business performance</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support M&amp;A activities and strategic partnerships as we scale</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prepare financial materials for board meetings and inv