Co-Founder & CEO — AI-Native Accounting Firm

Overview

This partnership role involves co-founding and serving as CEO of an AI-native accounting firm (Fieldstone). It is a founder equity position and not a salaried executive role.

The firm is built around an agent fleet that continuously runs bookkeeping, reconciliation, workpapers, and first-pass tax returns. Human reviewers apply judgment, sign off, and own the client relationship. A technical co-founder is embedded in the practice from day one to automate work within the CEO’s workflow, with the product built from real engagements.

Responsibilities

As Co-Founder & CEO, you will set the venture’s direction and lead execution across:

• Clients: Bring your founding client base and win new mid-market clients through your network.
• Practice: Own quality of work, review standards, and every client relationship as the firm’s lead CPA.
• Product: Work side by side with the technical co-founder, converting day-to-day workflow and review corrections into agent improvements.
• Licensing: Lead firm registration and CPA licensing across US states.
• Capital: Lead the seed raise, supported by the organization’s network and traction.
• Team: Hire reviewer CPAs and establish the firm’s cultural foundation.

Requirements

• Licensed US CPA
• Partner or senior manager experience at an accounting firm
• Established book of client relationships you can bring into a new firm
• Hands-on experimentation with AI tools in your own practice, with conviction that the firm model needs to change
• Strong business development track record (winning and retaining clients based on your work)
• Product mindset with the ability to break down your workflow and help shape how it gets automated
• Ability to build an investor narrative and close capital with the organization’s support
• Experience in bookkeeping, tax, and advisory for 1M–20M businesses

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling a professional services practice
• Familiarity with automation of bookkeeping, reconciliation, workpapers, and tax workflows

Compensation & Benefits

• Founder equity with meaningful ownership from inception
• Pre-seed capital committed for early hires and agent development, with potential for follow-on funding
• Embedded technical co-founder in the practice from day one
• Venture building resources including design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day one
• Investor and advisor network across fintech and early-stage capital markets

Location

Not specified.