Director of Strategic Finance

Austin, TX or Los Angeles, CA | $170,000–$190,000 | 0.15%–0.25% equity

About Wally

Wally is building a new model for dental care — one centered on prevention, not procedures. Swiss technology, unlimited cleanings and whitening, and a simple membership give patients and clinicians more control over oral health. Our members get 3x more cleanings a year than the average American, preventing problems before they become fillings, crowns, and bigger bills. Put less politely: no more getting drilled.

We recently announced our Series A, led by Maveron with participation from Bling Capital. We run 14 studios across 3 markets today, and we're opening new cities while densifying the ones we're in.

The decisions ahead matter enormously: where and how fast we expand, how we deploy capital, how studios mature, and what operating model supports Wally at hundreds of locations. We're hiring a Director of Strategic Finance to help answer them.

The Role

You'll own the financial and analytical backbone of Wally and work directly with the CEO and executive team on the highest-leverage decisions we face.

Today much of this work sits with the executive team. You'll take that foundation and build Strategic Finance into a real capability: the models we run the business on, the translation of operating performance into decisions, and the answer to where the next dollar, hire, and studio go.

You'll move between company-level strategy and ground-level detail. One day, modeling the path from dozens to hundreds of locations. The next, digging into why two similar studios have materially different economics.

What You'll Own

• The economic model. Revenue, studio economics, headcount, cash, capital requirements, long-range planning. Understand the drivers, not just the trend line. Build the view of what Wally looks like at 25, 50, 100, and several hundred locations — and what has to be true to get there.

• Planning and capital allocation. Annual planning, quarterly forecasting, scenario work. Turn questions like "five more studios or invest harder in the ones we already have?" into decision-ready analysis.

• Studio and market economics. The definitive view of location-level performance across cohorts, markets, and maturity curves — utilization, labor, contribution margin, retention, LTV. Partner with Operations to separate structural from executional, and say what to do about it.

• Management infrastructure. KPIs, dashboards, operating reviews, and a single source of truth for the metrics that matter. Help Wally evolve from a company understood through direct executive involvement into one understood through systems.

• Board and financing. The financial materials behind board meetings, investor conversations, and fundraising. A clear view of liquidity, runway, and the milestones that drive our next stage of value creation.

Who You Are

• 3-5 years of experience, including at least two inside a high-growth operating company. Common paths: banking then Strategic Finance, PE or growth equity then an operating role, Strategic Finance at a multi-location consumer, healthcare, hospitality, or retail business, or analytical BizOps with deep modeling experience.
• You're an exceptional modeler, but modeling is a means to an end. You care about understanding the business and making the right call.
• You can go from a messy operating question to a structured framework without being told how.
• You're comfortable with imperfect data, and know when precision matters and when it doesn't.
• You're AI-native in how you work. You use AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, modeling, reporting, and problem-solving, freeing up more time for judgment and action. You know how to get leverage from AI, but also how to validate outputs and recognize its limitations.
• You look for opportunities to automate and improve how the business operates, not just make your own work faster. You're excited to build smarter workflows, eliminate manual reporting, and use AI to help a lean team operate at scale.
• You explain complicated analysis simply, without hiding behind a 40-tab spreadsheet.
• You're accountable. If you see something important, you drive it to resolution rather than just flagging it.
• Spending time in studios, talking to operators, and figuring out why reality differs from the model sounds interesting to you, not beneath you.
• And you want to build the function, not inherit one.
• Experience scaling a physical footprint is valuable but not required. Horsepower, judgment, and trajectory matter more to us than having seen this exact movie before.

Why Wally

The model works and the company is scaling — but most of the decisions that determine how big Wally becomes are still ahead of us. You'll have direct access to those decisions, high exposure to the executive team and Board, and the chance to build a function from the ground up.

When we succeed, Wally changes how millions of people experience dental care.

You'll help figure out how we get there.

How to Apply

After submitting your application on LinkedIn, email your resume to [email hidden] and include a quick note in your email about why you're excited to help us build the future of dental care.