Strategic Finance Manager

The posting, as Panthalassa wrote it

About the Company

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.

About the Job

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. As Panthalassa moves from pilot systems toward repeatable production, large-scale facilities, and commercial deployments, we need financial systems, models, and decision tools that can keep pace with unlocking planetary-scale energy.

As Strategic Finance Manager, you will help build and maintain the analytical infrastructure that connects operations, accounting, strategy, and finance. Your work will support resource planning, manufacturing scale-up, capital strategy, and the financial decisions that shape how we grow. This is a hands-on strategic finance role for someone who can lead budgeting processes, build rigorous models from first principles, pressure-test assumptions, and turn complex analysis into clear recommendations. You will also be directly engaged in our capital formation efforts, partnering with leadership on equity and debt raises and the investor and lender materials that support them.

Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain durable planning tools that give leadership visibility into cash needs, cost drivers, capital efficiency, and key tradeoffs across build, buy, finance, and deployment decisions.
• Partner with operations, engineering, manufacturing, accounting, and strategy teams to translate build plans, vendor quotes, headcount plans, and deployment schedules into financial forecasts.
• Build corporate finance and liquidity models that support resource planning, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, runway management, and capital allocation decisions.
• Develop financial models for project development, manufacturing scale-up

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• Experience with renewable energy tax credits, tax equity, transferability, asset-backed structures, private credit, or infrastructure financings.
• Familiarity with ERP, procurement, accounting, or other operating systems that feed financial planning tools.
• Strong facility with AI-enabled workflows, automation, data cleanup, and lightweight internal tools that improve speed and accuracy.

The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired skills and experience listed.

Additional Requirements

• Travel to vendors and test sites as needed.
• Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs. While we expect a lot of each other, we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including flexible PTO and flexible working hours.

Compensation and Benefits

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive

• Cash compensation of $150,000 - $210,000.
• Equity in the company. We’re all owners and if we’re successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
• A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (the company pays 100% of a gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long-term financial support if you become disabled)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).

Location

This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.