Director of Operations and Finance

About FoodSight

Good food goes in the bin every day. We’re the ones stopping it.

Commercial kitchens throw out food they bought, prepped and cooked, and nobody counts it. Across food service that’s 290 million tonnes a year. Food loss and waste drives up to 10% of global emissions, almost five times aviation.

We built Scrappy: a scale and a camera that sit over the bin and see every gram. Our AI names it, weighs it and prices it in euro. Then we tell the chef what to change tomorrow. Waste is down 56% at Indeed. A head chef at Sky calls it part of his kit, “as much as my knife or my oven”.

We’re a high-impact team, looking after some of Europe’s largest commercial kitchens across Ireland, the UK and DACH. Everyone here owns something whole. Everything you build lands in a working kitchen, and you can count what it saved in kilos, euro and carbon.

Our four values -

Make our customers’ lives easier. Chefs work a gruelling job. We remove friction. We never add it.

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Act like an owner. No brief needed. Our money, our numbers, our results.

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Be comfortable in the uncomfortable. Form a view. Ask the hard question. Change your mind when the data does.

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Be good company. Some days are difficult. Be kind. Laugh often.

How we work -

Monday to Thursday in our Dublin office, whole team, same days. Friday is deep work, wherever you do it best. A day on a customer site counts as an office day.

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Meetings are 25 or 50 minutes, with a purpose, an agenda and next steps. Or they don’t happen.

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Written first. Chat for quick questions, docs for decisions. Bad news early, with the numbers and a plan.

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AI is on by default for drafts, research and analysis. You own the output.

Run the engine. Lead the next raise.

We’re a VC-backed hardware and software company scaling across three markets, heading into our Series A. You’ll own finance and operations end to end and sit at the leadership table with the CEO. You’ve done this before in a PE or VC-backed startup, and you’ve helped close a round of €2M or more.

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Location: Dublin office, Mon-Thu. Friday remote.

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Salary: Market rate + meaningful equity

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Reports to: CEO, with regular board exposure

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Scope: Finance, fundraising, operations, people ops

What you’ll do -

Fundraising: own the model, data room and due diligence for our Series A. Sit in the investor meetings.

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Finance: cash, runway, budgets and a rolling 12-month forecast the board trusts.

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Reporting: board packs and monthly investor updates, on time, with the numbers that matter.

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Unit economics: hardware cost, margin and payback per site, so we price and scale with confidence.

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Operations: supply chain and stock for our devices, contracts, compliance and grants (Enterprise Ireland, R&D tax credit).

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People ops: payroll, contracts and policies as we grow beyond 10.

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Build the systems and automation so the team spends time on customers, not admin.

What you’ll bring -

Senior finance or ops experience in a PE or VC-backed startup or scale-up.

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A raise of €2M+ you helped close: the model, the data room, the diligence.

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Board reporting and investor relations you’ve owned yourself.

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Strong commercial instinct. You turn numbers into decisions, not just reports.

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Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent experience.

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Bonus: hardware or physical product, multi-currency (EUR, GBP, CHF), or grant funding.

Your first 90 days -

Learn (days 1-30): know every number. Cash, contracts, cost per device, the investor base.

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Own (days 31-60): take over the forecast, board pack and investor update.

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Deliver (days 61-90): Series A model and data room ready to go.

The project (step 6)

We give you a simplified version of our numbers. Build a 12-month cash plan and tell us what you’d say to the board. 20 minutes to present, 20 minutes of us as investors pushing back. We look for clear thinking, the risks you spot and the decisions you’d push for.

What you get -

A seat at the leadership table from day one.

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Meaningful equity in a company heading into its Series A.

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The finance and ops function to build your way.

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A real impact on food waste you can count in kilos, euro and carbon.

How we hire

Six steps. Same questions and the same scorecard for every candidate. Each step turns around in 1-3 days.

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CV - two minutes to read. Show outcomes and numbers, not duties.

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AI screening - a short structured interview in your own time. A person reviews every result.

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Phone screen - with the hiring manager. Motivation, your numbers, how you work.

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In-person panel - two or three of us, structured questions scored against our traits.

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CEO meeting - values and ambition. Where you want to be in two years. Both sides decide.

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Project presentation - a real problem from the role. You present, we push back. We test thinking, not polish.

This isn’t for everyone

If you need a brief to start, want it perfect before it ships, or want a quiet, predictable week, this isn’t the place. Better you know now.