About the company
Vapi is a Voice AI platform that resolves, not transfers. Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life. Trusted by 1 million developers. Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised.
Responsibilities
- 30 Days: Foundation & Discovery
- Track and analyze COGS / cost of revenue and gross margin: Gain a comprehensive understanding of current margin profiles.
- Analyze cloud / infrastructure / inference / telephony costs: Deconstruct the primary cost drivers to identify trends, outliers, and initial areas for investigation.
- 60 Days: Building & Collaboration
- Build cost-per-minute and cost-per-call models and unit economics: Develop granular models that link infrastructure consumption directly to revenue-generating activity.
- Partner with Engineering on infrastructure cost optimization: Collaborate on actionable improvements to lower unit costs based on the data models built in the previous month.
- 90 Days: Strategy & Forecasting
- Forecast COGS in the operating plan: Apply historical data and efficiency learnings to create accurate, reliable future cost projections.
- Support gross margin reporting and variance analysis for leadership: Provide executive visibility into margin performance, explaining drivers of variance to inform strategic business decisions.
Requirements
- 4–8 years in FP&A or cost / financial analysis
- Comfort with unit economics and analyzing cloud / infrastructure costs
- Strong Excel / financial modeling skills
- High attention to detail and comfort working cross-functionally
- Experience at an infrastructure-heavy or usage-based company a nice to have
- Familiarity with cloud cost tooling and data / BI tools a nice to have
Conditions
- Real stake: competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
- Team love: quarterly off sites
- Flexible time off
- More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget