Finance Director - Product & Technology

About ESO ESO is a fast-paced data, technology, and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today's EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We're small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work.

We serve thousands of customer out of our hubs in the US, Canada, Northern Ireland, Czechia and Costa Rica. At ESO, we believe in bringing your true self to work every single day. Are you ready to make a difference?

The Opportunity We're building a best-in-class Finance Business Partner organization, and this is a rare opportunity to be a founding member of our team. Reporting to the VP of Strategic Finance, you'll serve as the dedicated finance partner to our Technology and Product leaders- becoming the trusted advisor who translates product roadmaps and technology investments into long-term financial models and strategic insights. This isn't a traditional finance role where you simply track R D spend.

You'll be deeply embedded with Engineering and Product teams, speaking their language and understanding the technical architecture behind our multi-product portfolio. You'll build sophisticated multi-year financial views of product development, master the complexities of capitalized software costs and R D tax credits, and help leaders make critical trade-off decisions on where to invest engineering capacity. We're becoming an AI-first finance team.

We're actively leveraging cutting-edge technology and forward-looking thinking to transform how we operate- automating repetitive work, building predictive models, and freeing up our time to focus on high-value strategic thinking. If you're excited about being at the forefront of how AI is reshaping modern finance, you'll thrive here. If you've been looking for a role where you can combine your finance expertise with a genuine love of technology - where your not just tracking budgets but actively shaping product strategy through financial insights - this is it!

Requirements

, and investment profiles. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to understand technical architecture, development dependencies, and capacity constraints, then model the financial implications across planning horizons. Create sophisticated scenario analyses that evaluate trade-offs between product investments, feature prioritization, platform vs product work, and technical debt reduction.

Develop frameworks to measure product development efficiency, including cost per feature, velocity trends and productivity metrics across engineering teams. Model the long-term P L impact of product decisions - understanding how today's R D investments translate into tomorrow's revenue and margin profile. Technology Finance Expertise Own and optimize the capitalized software costs process, ensuring accurate accounting for internally developed software while partnering with accounting teams on technical implementation.

Lead the R D tax credit process, working with external advisors to maximize credits while maintaining detailed documentation of qualified research activities. Manage the complex interplay between operating expense and capitalized development costs, providing clarity to leadership on GAAP vs. cash impacts.

Build and maintain headcount and expense models for Technology teams across multiple products, platforms, and infrastructure groups. Understand cloud infrastructure costs (AWS, Azure, GCP) and help optimize the economics of our technical infrastructure as we scale.