Engineering Geology Jobs in Pacifica, CA

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.

The CFO will be a strategic and operational partner to the CEO and executive team, responsible for leading Xona’s financial strategy, execution, and infrastructure. This role blends high-level financial leadership with hands-on ownership across accounting, FP&A, fundraising support, compliance, and systems.

You’ll play a critical role in capital strategy, operational planning, and ensuring financial rigor as Xona scales its satellite constellation, manufacturing, and commercial operations.

What You’ll Do

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• Partner closely with the CEO and Board to define and execute Xona’s financial strategy
  
• Provide clear financial insights to support business decisions, growth initiatives, and long-term planning
  
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team on budgeting, forecasting, and trade-off decisions
  
• Own company-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning
  
• Build and maintain operating models supporting R&D, manufacturing, and deployment programs
  
• Track KPIs and financial performance, highlighting risks, opportunities, and corrective actions
  
• Oversee accounting operations including monthly close, financial statements, and audits
  
• Ensure strong internal controls and compliance with GAAP and regulatory requirements
  
• Manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners
  
• Support equity and debt fundraising, including investor materials, data rooms, and diligence
  
• Partner with the CEO on capital planning, runway management, and scenario modeling
  
• Build and scale financial systems, tools, and processes to support company growth
  
• Oversee ERP, accounting software, and reporting infrastructure
  
• Drive process improvements that balance financial rigor with startup agility
  
• Build and lead a high-performing finance team over time
  
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Legal, and HR
  
• Support contract review, pricing strategy, and vendor negotiations as needed
  

Required Qualifications

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• 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience (CFO, VP Finance, or equivalent senior role)
  
• Proven experience operating in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment
  
• Strong expertise across FP&A, accounting, and financial operations
  
• Experience supporting venture capital fundraising and Board-level financial reporting
  
• Hands‑on, detail‑oriented leader willing to dive in where needed
  
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
  
• Strong judgment, analytical rigor, and ability to drive decisions under ambiguity
  

Desired Qualifications

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• Experience in aerospace, space, defense, hardware, or other capital‑intensive technical environments
  
• Experience supporting government customers, grants, or regulated contracts
  
• Familiarity with manufacturing cost models and hardware program economics
  
• Experience scaling finance teams and systems from early‑stage to growth‑stage
  
• Exposure to ERP implementation or financial systems build‑out
  
• CPA, CFA, and/or MBA (preferred but not required)
  

For U.S. Roles:

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

For U.K. Roles:

To comply with U.K. regulations, this role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).

For Canada Roles:

Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Are you a customer-obsessed business development or enterprise sales leader with a passion for groundbreaking technology and high-end content creation?

AWS is a world leader in advanced solutions for Digital Content Production and 3D computer graphics, including CAD, Visualization, Animation, Visual Effects, and Video Games. AWS technology underpins some of the most recognizable entertainment franchises in the world, from James Cameron's Avatar films to EA’s Apex Legends. Our mission is to enable our customers to modernize digital content production workflows, enable creative companies to harness the power of AI, and deliver projects that delight audiences and gamers worldwide.

In this role, you will oversee both the end-to-end sales cycle and global go-to-market strategy for AWS’ next-generation rendering solution, AWS Deadline Cloud. Your responsibilities will include identifying and engaging with high potential customers across multiple industries and helping these companies learn and adopt AWS Deadline Cloud. You will gather customer requirements, and work with product and engineering teams to ensure Deadline Cloud addresses customer needs. You’ll be instrumental in helping customers use Deadline Cloud to invent the future of digital imagery today, and in ways that have yet to be imagined for the future.

The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience crafting go-to-market strategies that drive adoption in complex enterprise sales cycles. You have cultivated relationships with executive-level decision makers across multiple industries and hold a pulse on emerging technologies that influence technology product roadmaps. You understand the intricacies of being an independent contributor, a leader, and a team member in globally dispersed teams that include specialists with highly technical backgrounds. You have leveraged market, competitive, and customer insights to formulate strategies that accelerate the growth of products or services. You possess exceptional analytical abilities, paired with communication skills to advocate effectively for actionable insights across stakeholder groups.

Key job responsibilities
• Drive the necessary business insights, strategic and technical relationships with Fortune 500 companies, creative studios, and key stakeholders world-wide to establish meaningful business relationships and drive adoption of the AWS Deadline Cloud service and related AWS products.

• Educate customers and industry organizations on how cloud rendering solutions and AWS Deadline Cloud can help companies scale and grow.

• Prepare and deliver data-driven business reviews to AWS senior management about progress, achievements, and roadblocks in the business.

• Execute strategic go-to-market initiatives, collaborating with key internal stakeholders across AWS groups and internationally.

• Collaborate with internal teams to understand the technical requirements of our customers and bring market signals back to product teams to drive innovation on AWS product roadmaps.

• Develop long-term strategic partnerships in support of our key initiatives.

• Drive industry thought leadership by championing the development of state-of-the-art demos, writing blogs, conducting webinars, and representing AWS at industry events, conferences, symposiums, and other events

• Serve as a key member of the world-wide Visual Computing team in helping to position Rendering services with the overall strategy of the AWS digital content production ecosystem

About the team
Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with problem solving and disruptive innovation, developing technology programs and working across customer organizations
- 8+ years’ experience in a business development or enterprise sales role interacting with both creative and technical customers
- • Strong technical aptitude that allows them to effectively engage with technology leaders and engineers- Experience providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Knowledge of and experience with cloud infrastructure technologies
- Experience meeting revenue targets and quotas
- Experience managing cross-functional projects and initiatives
- Master's degree
- Established track record of credibility as a business development and technology advisor with customer executives (e.g. CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, CMO) and Line of Business
- Leaders across M&E and at least one other industry (e.g. Automotive, Architecture, Design, Defense, etc.)
- Familiarity with the vernacular, tools and workflows for creating 3D computer graphics

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at , CA, San Francisco - 193,7 ,000.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Santa Monica - 176,1 ,200.00 USD annually