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Strategic Finance & Biz Ops Lead

Sage Care

Palo Alto, CAFull-time$140–170K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$140–170K/yr
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Sage Care is hiring a Strategic Finance & BizOps Lead reporting to the Head of Business. The role owns the operating model, supports board and investor reporting, helps price and structure partner deals, and manages day-to-day finance operations. It works closely with the CEO and leadership team and combines investment-banking rigor with the speed and ownership of an early-stage startup.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Financial Modeling, requiredExcel, requiredGoogle Sheets, requiredWriting, requiredPresentation Skills, requiredAccounting Fundamentals, requiredOwnership, requiredAttention to Detail, requiredComfort With Ambiguity, requiredHealthcare Sector Exposure, nice to have

Qualifications

2+ Years Investment Banking or Growth Equity/VC, required2+ Years Strategic Finance, FP&a, or BizOps, required

Full job description

About Sage Care Sage Care is a fast-growing, early-stage healthcare startup transforming care navigation with AI. Our platform helps patients find the right care, enables providers to focus on the people who need them most, and improves access, quality, and economic outcomes at scale. Founded by leaders from Apple, Uber, and Carbon Health, Sage Care is backed by top-tier investors including General Catalyst and Chelsea Clinton. We work with health systems across the U.S. and have expanded internationally to the MENA region, where we are partnering with healthcare organizations to deploy our AI-powered care navigation platform.

About the Role We're hiring a Strategic Finance & BizOps Lead, reporting to the Head of Business. You'll own our operating model, support board and investor reporting, help price and structure partner deals, and keep day-to-day finance operations running smoothly. You'll work closely with the CEO and leadership team. This is a hands-on role for someone who brings the rigor of investment banking and wants the speed and ownership of an early-stage startup.

Responsibilities Strategic Finance

  • Build and maintain our operating model across revenue, AI agent usage, headcount, costs, and cash.

  • Run budgeting and monthly reporting, and build the KPI dashboards leadership uses to run the business.

  • Prepare board and investor materials, and support fundraising.

  • Build pricing and ROI models for new partners, and track unit economics, including the cost of running our AI agents at scale.

Finance Operations

  • Work with our outsourced accounting, tax, and payroll partners to close the books each month.

  • Manage invoicing, collections, vendor payments, and spend tracking.

  • Keep financial records, the cap table, and compliance filings up to date and audit-ready.

Business Operations

  • Lead analyses and projects across new markets, partners, and products.

  • Manage contracting with partners and vendors: prepare MOUs, SOWs, NDAs, and BAAs from our templates, coordinate redlines with legal counsel, and track key terms, renewals, and obligations.

  • Turn one-off analyses into repeatable models and processes, using AI and automation where it helps.

Qualifications

  • 2–3 years in investment banking or growth equity / VC, ideally with healthcare or technology coverage.

  • 2+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, or BizOps at a high-growth tech company.

  • Excellent financial modeling and Excel/Google Sheets skills.

  • Clear, concise writing and presentation skills.

  • Working knowledge of accounting fundamentals.

  • High ownership, attention to detail, and comfort with ambiguity.

  • Strongly preferred: healthcare sector exposure - ideally through a healthcare coverage group (IB or growth equity / VC) or adjacent work with providers, payers, or healthtech companies.

How We Work At Sage Care, our values shape how we build, collaborate, and serve.

  • Do Good Through Serving People: We serve users, teammates, and communities with integrity, compassion, kindness, and optimism.

  • Innovate with Safety, Evidence, and Transparency: We move quickly while prioritizing trust, safety, ethical decision-making, and evidence-based approaches.

  • Lead with Curiosity and Kindness: We ask questions before making assumptions and approach discovery, debate, and problem-solving with humility and care.

  • We, Not Me: We believe the best work happens through collaboration, mutual respect, and constructive feedback.

  • Efficiency and AI in All We Do: We use automation and AI thoughtfully to work smarter, create leverage, and build better products.

How this job compares

Set against the 578 open Strategic Finance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–170K/yr
  • California median$170–235K/yr169 salary ranges
  • US median$169–220K/yr458 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $155K, is 23% below the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the lowest quarter of Strategic Finance salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 199 open Strategic Finance jobs in California and 578 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Strategic Finance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 522 postings).
Education
241 of the 578 open Strategic Finance jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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