GoKawiilThe Story
Our founders, Alec and Sajan, started Laylo after watching the music industry get strip-mined by platforms that owned the fan relationship and rented it back to artists. We're building the infrastructure for the next generation of entertainment: a direct messaging and CRM layer that lets creators own their audience, drop products to them, and drive real revenue without paying a middleman tax.
Laylo is the drop CRM powering some of the biggest names in music, live events, and entertainment. We replace the patchwork of email, SMS, presave, and tour announcement tools with one platform that lets creators message their fans directly and drive real revenue. Over 10,000 creators use Laylo to drop more than $1B in tickets, merch, and music to millions of fans, including artists like Zach Bryan and Sabrina Carpenter and festivals like Outside Lands.
We're a 24-person team based around the world. We went through Y Combinator (S20) and are backed by Eldridge, Sony, and other top-tier investors.
The Role
You'll be our first dedicated finance hire. You won't be inheriting a team or a playbook. You'll be building the financial infrastructure of a profitable, fast-growing SaaS company from scratch, reporting directly to the CEO.
This role is equal parts operational and strategic. On any given day, you might be modeling the unit economics of a new pricing tier, renegotiating a vendor contract, pressure-testing our hiring plan against runway, or building the framework that tells us whether a $40K SaaS tool is actually earning its keep. Almost every major decision we make has a financial dimension, and you'll be in the room for all of them.
If you get excited about being the single source of truth for a company's financial health, and you want to do it at a company where the product actually matters and we work with the artists you listen to, this is the role.
What You'll Do
Be a strategic partner to the CEO and department heads on budgets, headcount planning, vendor negotiation, and unit economics. Not a reporter of numbers. A thought partner who happens to know where the money is.
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