Director of Finance

Ideogram’s mission is to help people become more creative. Our thesis is that everyone has an innate desire to create. We are developing state-of-the-art AI tools that will make creative expression more accessible and efficient. We are pushing the limits of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a small presence in NYC. Read Ideogram 2.0 blog post and check out our text to image product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we’re building.

About The Role

The Director of Finance at Ideogram will play a crucial role in defining and executing the financial strategy. The role will focus on analyzing and optimizing company financials.

Responsibilities

• Financial analysis and optimization, including analyzing/ optimizing our product pricing/ offerings and operational expenses

• Prepare, review, and manage financial statements, including balance sheet and income statements

• Work with bookkeepers, including invoicing, payments, and expense tracking

• Work with external vendors to ensure compliance on sales and income tax

• Collaborate with internal teams to streamline operations and improve financial efficiency

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a tech startup

• Strong background in financial reporting, bookkeeping, tax, and corporate business administration

Founding team

Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.

Company Culture

We’re a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.

Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.