Founding Member - Finance

One of four founding seats at an applied AI consultancy. You own the firm's money: the model, the cash, the margins, and the public-benefit line.

• Equal founding share. Four seats, identical terms.
• Build the review function that keeps the books honest and the commitment funded.
• Year one, you also carry the firm's first Financial Services book to a market you know.

The role

You will own Lykido's money and how it moves: the model, cash, float, margins, and Member draws. You will build a review function with real-time access to the books that reports what the firm owes its mission, its staff, and its Members. When growth creates pressure to defer or reduce the public-benefit commitment, protecting it is your job.

This is a working seat. Alongside the Member role, your first year is spent as Lykido's first Industry Lead for Financial Services, carrying products you helped create to a market you know.

Responsibilities

• Stewardship of the public-benefit commitment: reported plainly, never deferred without the review function's written analysis on record.
• The financial model and the firm's cash position, cash-positive through disciplined growth.
• Margin and pricing discipline, including enforcement of the firm's standard that a margin taken because a client cannot object is an unacceptable margin.
• Industry Lead commission and Builder / Associate profit share, accounted accessibly so staff can watch their compensation accrue against the value they create, in real time.

You may be a good fit if

• You have visibility and credibility in financial services as someone who balances profit with benefit.
• You served, at some point in your past, in finance or FP&A at a startup or small firm and are comfortable owning the whole function, not a slice of it.
• You're a dynamic and flexible thinker who respectfully challenges others and updates without friction when it's clear your position is wrong.
• You hold a high standard for clean data and fail fast and visibly.
• You are glad to work at a firm that gives a growing share of its profit away (About Lykido, below).

Membership

Lykido has four Member seats. Finance is one of them. Members hold identical shares and are paid equally from what remains after the firm pays its people and its bills: Industry Lead commissions, Builder and Associate salaries and profit share, and operating costs. The public-benefit commitment is funded next, from net profit. Members draw last.

Revenue is limited today; the firm is early. The demand is not limited: the clients we serve face change that threatens their businesses outright. If the firm succeeds, Member compensation becomes significant. It will still be less than a firm built to keep everything would pay, because this one is built to give a growing share away. If that reads as an investment, apply. If it reads as a sacrifice, this seat will not fit.

About Lykido

Lykido is an applied AI consultancy with a public-benefit commitment written into its charter. A share of net profit, starting at 5% and growing toward 50% as revenue scales, funds public-benefit work before any owner takes a distribution. That ordering is permanent. Nobody here is asked to preach; the structure does the work. Sell well, build well, and the commitment is funded by the same success that pays you.

How to apply

Please send your resume and a short note about a time you traded your own money, time, or advancement for someone else's benefit, at real cost to yourself. Parents returning to work after time away to raise children are encouraged to apply.

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