Accounting Manager, GL& Close
Company Overview Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.
Company Operating Rhythm At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.
Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.
Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.
We're hiring an Accounting Manager, GL & Close to run the more complex parts of our monthly close and to push large sections of it forward as Deepgram scales through its first external audit and toward public markets. You'll report directly to the Chief Accounting Officer on a small, deliberately lean finance team, and transition to the Senior Director, Accounting once that role is filled — which means unusual proximity to the top of the function from day one, and a manager above you who has taken a company through this exact arc before.
Your manager owns the close. You own the parts of it that carry the most judgment, and you move the rest of it along without waiting to be asked. Practically, that means you'll prepare in the areas where the answer depends on a call rather than a formula, and review in the areas where the process is established — with the line between the two moving as the team grows and as the business gets more complicated.
This is a hands-on role. You'll be in the workpapers, not just over them. If you're looking for a seat where you assign schedules and approve them, this isn't it. If you want to own the technically hardest work in the close while developing the people who own the rest, it is.
It's also a build, not a maintain. The close you inherit is a startup close. The close you leave behind has to survive an external audit, an ERP migration off Xero, and SOX — and it has to run on a team that stays small, which means it runs on AI. We're not looking for someone who closes faster with AI on the side. We're looking for someone who rebuilds the work around it.
What You'll Do
- Push the close forward. Own the critical-path workstreams and drive them to done. Chase open items, unblock the team, escalate early, and keep the calendar honest. When the close lands on time, it's because you moved it.
- Prepare the complex and judgmental areas. Stock-based compensation, leases, capitalized software, payroll and compensation accruals, intercompany and foreign currency are examples of where we'd expect your own hands on the schedule — but the list will shift with what the business thro