Director of Finance & Accounting

Company:

In Common With + Quarters

Reports to:

Co-Founder, Nick

Location:

New York, New York

Employment:

Full-Time

Compensation:

$165,000 - $195,000 annually

Direct Reports:

None (at start)

Target Start Date:

Monday, April 5th 2027

Application Deadline:

Monday, November 30th, 2026

In Common With + Quarters

In Common With is a design studio defining a new vocabulary for interiors, in which old-world craft meets at-scale manufacturing. Founded in 2018, our practice brings endless curiosity, exceptional materials, and unparalleled adaptability to lighting and objects for all spaces—created with our team of expert craftspeople, artists, and engineers around the world. In 2024, we opened Quarters, a hybrid retail and hospitality destination in Tribeca. Through ongoing collaborations with our peers in the worlds of art and design, Quarters crafts a vision of home that’s unfolding and alive.

Our obsessions with craft and collaboration originate from a boundless interest in people, objects, and an ongoing conversation between the two. Every product we make and every partnership we cultivate has that in common.

The Role

The Director of Finance and Accounting is the senior internal financial leader for In Common With and Quarters, accountable for financial strategy, accounting quality, and the information and controls that support sound business decisions. Reporting to Nick, Co-founder, this person helps shape financial goals, capital-allocation priorities, and the pace of growth while independently leading the planning, reporting, and accounting work needed to deliver them.

This is a hands-on leadership role with no internal direct reports at the outset, and the opportunity to shape the finance function’s structure as the business grows. An existing bookkeeping service will initially continue to handle accounts payable and basic bookkeeping, and an external tax accountant will remain in place. The director will establish clear expectations, review the providers’ work, resolve issues, and personally perform financial analysis and accounting work outside the providers’ agreed scopes.

The role requires someone who can move between detailed accounting and consequential business decisions: investigating an inventory discrepancy, improving a cash forecast, evaluating a new investment, and explaining the tradeoffs to the founders. 

Success means trusted numbers, early visibility into risks, clear business economics, and a financial function that is reliable without depending on informal processes or constant founder intervention. In the first year, priorities include a reliable monthly close, weekly cash visibility, accurate inventory and cost accounting, and an annual operating plan the founders can make decisions against.