About the role
Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform. Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you. Laurel AI is hiring its first Controller, a foundational role reporting directly to the CFO at a pivotal moment in the company's growth. We've built significant market traction, delivered exceptional growth, and are now expanding into a substantially larger opportunity as we evolve from a category-leading time intelligence platform into a broader enterprise workflow intelligence business. This is the moment that defines the next chapter, and the Controller will help build the financial infrastructure that gets us there. This is not a role where you inherit someone else's playbook. You'll architect the accounting function from the ground up, designing scalable processes and controls, implementing best-in-class systems, and helping define what an AI-native finance organization can actually look like at scale.
What you'll own: All accounting operations and close processes Scalable accounting policies, controls, and reporting infrastructure Audits and external accounting partner relationships Process automation and AI-enabled efficiencies across the finance function Building and developing the future accounting team Strategic partnership with the CFO and executive leadership on fundraising readiness, operational scaling, and long-term public company preparation