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Fieldguide is building an AI-native platform for modern audit and advisory firms, automating and streamlining assurance work in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and others.
As an Agent Architect, Audit, you'll join a specialized team at the intersection of audit expertise, product development, and AI. This is not a client-facing audit role, but rather a product-focused position where you'll design and build the next generation of audit workflows using AI agents.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing AI-powered workflows that will define the future of audit and assurance
- Partnering with engineering, product, and design teams to translate real-world audit processes into scalable product capabilities
- Working directly with audit firms using Fieldguide to understand workflows, pain points, and automation opportunities
- Identifying edge cases, controls, and quality requirements to ensure the product meets professional services standards
- Collaborating with the ML team to develop AI agent capabilities for document analysis, testing procedures, and evidence evaluation
- Rethinking long-standing audit processes and shaping how AI can augment professional judgment
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting with CPA license, or Master's degree in Accounting
- 8-10+ years of audit experience at a leading public accounting firm at Senior Manager level or above
- End-to-end financial statement audit experience, including workpaper design and execution across financial statement areas
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and financial statement preparation
- Experience with planning, risk assessment, internal control evaluation (ICFR), substantive testing, and financial statement review
- Multi-client and multi-industry audit background
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong communication skills to translate complex accounting concepts into product requirements
- Strong prioritization and focus on high-impact work
Bonus qualifications include curiosity about AI, interest in building systems with engineers, comfort in ambiguous environments, cross-functional collaboration skills, and a deep interest in improving audit processes rather than just digitizing existing ones.
Fieldguide is a remote-first company based in San Francisco with a values-driven culture emphasizing fearlessness, speed, lovability, ownership, win-win collaboration, and inclusivity. Benefits include competitive compensation with meaningful equity, flexible PTO, 401k, wellness benefits, technology reimbursement, and flexible work schedules.
