Director, Corporate Accounting

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>Who We Are</strong></h2> <p>Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.</p> <p>Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.</p> <p>We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.</p> <div class="c-message_actions__container c-message__actions">&nbsp;</div></div><h2><strong>WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a <strong>Director, Corporate Accounting</strong> to own and scale critical accounting operations as Lightning grows. You will be responsible for supporting accurate financial reporting, improving close processes, strengthening internal controls, and building scalable accounting workflows across the business. This role will partner closely with Finance, FP&amp;A, People Operations, Sales Operations, Legal, and external advisors to ensure accounting operations are accurate, compliant, and built for scale.</p> <p>This is a high-impact role for someone who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with an operational mindset. You will help manage core accounting activities, payroll accounting, commissions accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, close-related processes, and cross-functional accounting operations. The accounting scope is broad, leadership visibility is high, and the work directly supports financial accuracy, operating discipline, audit readiness, and long-term business s