People & Finance Lead

Responsibilities

• Making batteries and other critical hardware products safer, more affordable, and less wasteful.
• Relentlessly getting things done and taking ownership for and pride in your work.
• Helping drive performance across various teams (engineering, sales, operations, etc).
• Finding and bringing in more rockstars to grow the Glimpse team.

Requirements

• Experience managing external vendors and outsourced firms
• Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams with differing timelines
• Excellent time management and prioritization
• High attention to detail
• 5+ years of professional work experience
• US work authorization

Preferred

• CPA or a bookkeeping/accounting background
• SHRM-CP, PHR, or a similar HR certification
• Familiarity with accounting software (QuickBooks or comparable)
• Experience with a payroll/HRIS platform (Rippling or comparable)
• Experience managing multi-state sales tax and nexus
• Full-cycle recruiting experience
• Prior experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup

Role

As Glimpse grows its team and expands into new industries, our finance and people functions are getting more complex: more hires to make and onboard, a growing multi-state employee and commercial footprint, benefits to manage, and books that need to stay clean while we move quickly. We're looking for a driven operator to own these functions - someone who starts as an individual contributor, with a clear path to build and lead a team as these functions scale.

You will be Glimpse's first dedicated HR & finance hire, reporting directly to the CEO. You'll own these functions end to end, with tooling and partners already in place: accounting and finance operations (working with our outside accounting firm), payroll through Rippling, sales tax and compliance, full-cycle recruiting, onboarding and offboarding, benefits selection, and performance management across teams. No team above you, no one to hand things off to.

You don't need to be an expert in both finance and people - we're looking for someone strong in one who's genuinely excited to grow into the other.

If that sounds exciting, we would love to talk.

Our culture and values

A working draft of our culture and values aspirations can be found here

You’re fired up by

Running a smooth accounting and finance operation.

You have

• If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply!
• You might come from a chief-of-staff, operations-generalist, consulting, bookkeeping, or accounting-firm background - what matters is range and drive, not a specific title.
• Experience owning finance and/or HR operations, ideally at a small or fast-growing company

Location

We are headquartered at Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA. Given the hands-on nature of this role, we have a strong preference for candidates in the Boston metro area. For the right candidate, this can be hybrid role, with up to 2–3 days remote per week.

Interview process

• Phone screen with recruiter (15-20 minutes)
• Intro call with hiring manager (30 minutes)
• Live “whiteboarding” session (1 hour)
• On-site interviews (half a day in Boston, MA)
• Two reference checks
• Background check before start date

We offer

• Incredible growth prospects in a well-funded Series A company
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employee and dependents
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Unlimited PTO
• 12-week parental leave for both parents