Controller

About this role

About AirGarage

AirGarage is on a mission to bring real estate online, starting with parking.

We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual, labor-intensive operations with a unified, data-rich operating system for parking real estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more.

By building all of our technology in-house, we are able to deliver a magical experience for drivers while providing real-time visibility and revenue increases of 20-50% or more for real estate owners. That’s why national real‑estate leaders like Hines and Greystar, as well as technology companies like Meta, partner with AirGarage to optimize their parking facilities.

AirGarage uses datapoints like real-time occupancy, local events, weather, driver behavior, competitor pricing, and more to bring true intelligence to real estate owners’ assets for the first time.

We’re investing aggressively to make the physical world legible to a digital system: cameras, sensors, and software that generate a firehose of real-time data about the world around us. That data fuels models and algorithms that allow us to optimize performance at each property while giving owners the clarity and control they’ve never had before.

Before you can optimize an asset, you need to observe it. Before you can observe it, you need to bring it online.

We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. 26% of the land area in the median American urban core is dedicated to parking.

We are backed by top tier investors including Headline Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.

Want to learn more about AirGarage and the problem we're tackling?

Check out these podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NkDK51E4 https://youtu.be/_8aM6NQHYiE?si=p5WIujBWUA1sG-b7

THE ROLE 💼

As our Controller, you'll be the architect and owner of AirGarage's accounting function, the person who makes our numbers unimpeachable. You'll lead our in-house accounting team, modernize our systems and processes, and build the financial foundation that a fast-scaling, capital-intensive, real-world business demands.

This is a builder's role, not a maintainer's role. Money moves through our platform every day: collected from drivers, split with property owners, taxed by dozens of jurisdictions. Our accounting has to keep pace with a business that gets more complex every quarter. You'll take us from scrappy to scalable: converting our books to full accrual accounting, leading our migration from QuickBooks to a modern ERP, rebuilding the chart of accounts, tightening the close, and getting us audit-ready.

You'll report to our CEO today and to finance leadership as the team grows. This is the cornerstone accounting seat at AirGarage: the person every future finance hire will be glad came before them. If you love the craft of accounting, if clean books, tight controls, and a fast close are things you take genuine pride in, this is a rare chance to build the whole thing your way, at a company where the work actually matters to how the business is run and is critical to the end product delivered to customers.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 📊

Own the books, end to end: Lead the monthly close and continuously shorten it. Own revenue recognition, reconciliations, AP/AR, payroll coordination, and the integrity of every number that rolls up to the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

Convert us to true accrual accounting: Design and implement proper GAAP revenue recognition for a transactional, multi-location, revenue-share business. Make the accounting reflect economic reality, not just cash movement.

Lead the ERP migration: Own our transition from QuickBooks to a modern ERP as your flagship first project: selection, implementation, data migration, integrations with our payments and data infrastructure, and change management with the team.

Rebuild the chart of accounts: Rationalize our account structure so that location-level, team-level, and corporate reporting all roll up cleanly and leadership can trust every cut of the data.

Connect accounting to our data systems: We have rich, real-time transaction data flowing through our platform and data warehouse. Make our accounting systems and our operational systems agree with each other so there is one source of truth, automated wherever possible.

Own indirect tax and compliance: Manage parking taxes, regulatory fees, and multi-jurisdiction sales/use tax compliance across a national footprint of locations. Build the processes that keep us clean as we enter new markets.

Get us audit-ready: Establish the controls, documentation, and processes to take AirGarage through its first financial statement audit and make every audit after that boring.

Level up the team: Manage, mentor, and develop our in-house accountants. Set the standard for what excellent looks like and build the processes that let a lean team punch above its weight.

Partner across the business: Work with Operations, Sales, and Product to make sure the way we bill, collect, split, and report revenue is accurate at the source, not patched up at close.

Support financial reporting: Deliver timely, accurate monthly financials and supporting schedules that leadership, the board, and investors can rely on without an asterisk.

WHAT YOU NEED 🦚

Deep technical accounting chops: CPA (or equivalent rigor) with real command of GAAP, especially revenue recognition for transactional or marketplace-style businesses. You know the standards and, more importantly, how to apply them pragmatically.

You've done the messy middle before: You've been the senior-most accounting owner (Controller, Assistant Contr

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