Finance Operations and Strategy Manager

Cutting Edge Music Tech - On-Demand Vinyl Records

We are seeking a Finance Operations and Strategy Manager to help us redefine the physical and digital music industry. elasticStage is building the world’s first on-demand vinyl and CD platform, unlocking physical music for the Digital Creator era. By 2030, there will be over 250 million music creators globally, most locked out of physical formats due to high minimum runs and operational complexity. elasticStage solves this through patented on-demand vinyl and CD manufacturing technology, powering a free-to-use platform where creators can produce and sell physical releases worldwide with no upfront costs or minimum quantities.
And we are scaling fast:

• 100,000+ creators are using the product within our first year of commercialisation.
• Aiming for 20X growth by 2027.
• Partnerships with SoundCloud and Amuse (with more major partners to come!).
• Shipped to over 90 countries.
• 4.7★ on Trustpilot and Google.
• Recently raised new funding, bringing the total capital raised to £30M.
• Just moved to a new office in Kings Cross.

As Finance Operations and Strategy Manager, you will set up how elasticStage runs financially end-to-end in a future-back, AI-native way. You will design backwards from how the finance function should operate at 10x scale, then build what is needed to get us there.

elasticStage is building the future of on-demand physical music manufacturing and fulfilment, scaling through a capital-intensive model that deploys over £15M annually in state-of-the-art facilities, automation, manufacturing machines and R&D to bring our factory of the future to life. This will be driven by a strong finance function. This role is an opportunity to drive the company's top priority strategic projects, partnering closely with commercial, product, factory operations and engineering.

The role builds the financial backbone, capital deployment processes and decentralised financial visibility that allow every area of the business to act as financial partners. You will own elasticStage’s driver-based financial models, budgeting process, funding strategy across equity, grants, and debt, CAPEX deployment, among other strategic projects.

You will also help build an AI-native finance infrastructure that lets anyone in the company interact with budgets and financial data within the right guardrails and access permissions.

We value intellectual curiosity, a strong builder mindset and practical experimentation. You will be as comfortable building a driver-based model or running a fundraising process as you are prototyping AI-powered financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set up elasticStage’s finance operating model end-to-end in a future-back, AI-native way, designing for how finance should run at 10x scale and building the models, processes and infrastructure to get there.