Chief Financial Officer
Lucid Bots Inc.About the role
About Lucid Bots
Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company building the world’s most productive and responsible robots. Our mission is simple: extend human reach. We design intelligent machines that take on dangerous, demanding, and repetitive work—so people don’t have to.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.
We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator (S19), Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others, we are scaling quickly at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.
We’re building more than robots—we’re building the future of physical AI.
Our Core Values and How We Work Together
At Lucid Bots, we’re building something extraordinary - and how we work matters just as much as what we build. These values guide how we hire, grow, and show up for one another.
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Expedition Behavior - We climb as one. No silos, no “that’s not my job.” We protect the team and share the load.
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Grow with Humility - We’re relentless learners. We seek feedback, own mistakes, and get better every day.
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Lift People Up - Humans come first. We care fiercely, speak honestly, and design for real people in real conditions.
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Build the Extraordinary - We take ownership, reject the ordinary, and run toward hard problems.
We live Above the Line: we take responsibility, create solutions, and shape the future.
If these values energize you, you’ll thrive here. If they feel like too much, this may not be the right climb - and that’s okay.
Mission
Raise Lucid Bots’ next round of private capital, get the company into an auditable position, build the financial architecture to scale our Robots-as-a-Service business, and lay the foundation for an eventual public market process.
Who You Are
You have worked inside a manufacturing company at low 8-figures in revenue and helped scale it to 9-figures. You have raised private capital, negotiated venture debt terms, and sat across the table from lenders and leasing partners to structure deals that funded fleet growth or hardware subscriptions. You know what it takes to get a company through its first real audit and you have done it.
You do not make slide decks about what someone else should build. You build it. You own the banking relationships, the capital structure, and the financial narrative. You are not looking for a caretaker role. You are looking to build something.
Outcomes
What success looks like in this role, measured against results, not activities.
Year 1
- Lead and close the next fundraise. Own the financial model, investor materials, data room, due diligence process, and investor communications. Deliver a round that funds the next phase of growth on terms the board supports.
- Scale the financial engine behind Lucid Refresh. We are already deploying robots as a service. The CFO owns what comes next: lead the banking relationships, negotiate venture debt terms, and source financing partnerships with lending and leasing companies to fund fleet growth. Structure recurring revenue contracts so the unit economics work for Lucid Bots and the financing partners.
- Get the company audit-ready. Establish the internal controls, GAAP-compliant processes, and documentation standards required to pass a formal audit. Monthly close within 15 business days. Quarterly board packages delivered on time with numbers leadership and investors trust completely.
- Make gross margin visible and improvable. Deliver clear unit economics across every hardware product line (Sherpa, Lavo, Power Tether). Identify and execute at least one meaningful margin improvement initiative.
- Deploy AI across as many finance workflows as possible. Forecasting, close automation, anomaly detection, reporting. Show what a lean, high-performing finance team looks like with the right tooling.
- Scale the finance function without scaling headcount proportionally. Mature the systems, processes, and operating cadences already in place. ERP (Acumatica) utilization should be a driver of reporting speed and data integrity, not a bottleneck.
Years 2 to 3
- Diversified, stable capital structure with financing vehicles matched to each bu
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