Senior Accountant

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.

Deepgram is hiring a Senior Accountant to support the monthly close and core operational accounting as we scale toward audit readiness and IPO. You'll work directly with the Director of Accounting on a small, scrappy finance team — running the day-to-day work that keeps the close clean, the reconciliations tight, and the books trustworthy.

This is a hands-on, in-the-weeds role. The Director of Accounting owns the close end-to-end; you'll execute on the work that makes it run — preparing reconciliations, posting journal entries, partnering with our offshore AP team, supporting audit requests, and helping improve close mechanics over time. Plenty of room to grow the scope of what you own as you build trust and as the team scales.

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. Senior Accountants here are expected to use AI in their daily close work and to bring tooling instincts that make the work cleaner and faster.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual GL close — prepare assigned reconciliations, post journal entries, hit close calendar deadlines.
• Prepare account reconciliations across cash, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, intercompany, AP, and others — with documentation that holds up to audit. (AR reconciliations sit with the revenue accounting team.)
• Prepare recurring and accrual journal entries with appropriate support; flag cutoff or judgment calls to the Director of Accounting.
• Partner with our offshore AP team on day-to-day AP — review their work, handle exceptions and escalations, support vendor onboarding, and prepare AP reconciliations.
• Process and review expense reports; support intercompany, fixed asset, and prepaid schedules.
• Contribute to flux analysis — pull the variances, draft initial commentary, escalate the unexplained ones to the Director of Accounting.
• Support external audit PBC requests — pull the documentation, prepare the schedules, respond to auditor questions on assigned areas.
• Follow and help improve the close playbook the Director of Accounting maintains. Suggest improvements; flag what's broken.
• Use AI in your daily close work — for reconciliation matching, anomaly detection, JE drafting support, narrative drafts, vendor lookups. Bring back what works to the rest of the team.
• Support tax, treasury, and FP&A counterparts on data and reporting needs as requested.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on close cycle experience as a contributor.
• Active CPA preferred. Strong public accounting (Big 4 or national firm) foundation a plus.
• Solid working fluency in US GAAP at the operational level — accruals, deferrals, capitalization, intercompany, foreign currency, cutoff. Knows when to ask.
• A demonstrated AI-native working style — you use LLMs daily for accounting work and can talk concretely about what AI does well and where it falls short for close work. You don't need to have built infrastructure for a team yet, but the instinct should be there.
• Comfort vibe-coding small scripts (Python, SQL, Apps Script) for reconciliations, data pulls, and automation. You're not expected to architect systems — you are expected to write the small things that save you and the team hours.
• Strong execution habits — careful, organized, finishes what you start.
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can write a clean reconciliation memo, ask a clear question, and explain a variance to a non-finance ops leader without losing them.
• High integrity, high ownership, low ego.

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD

• Prior experience supporting a first external audit.
• SaaS or AI startup accounting experience.
• Working knowledge of NetSuite, Rillet, FloQast, BlackLine, Ramp, or similar tools — and reasoned views developed through use.
• Exposure to multi-entity / international intercompany accounting.
• Experience contributing to an ERP migration or close tooling rollout. (Not expected to lead one.)