The vacancy is well-structured with clear expectations and compensation details, making it appealing to applicants.
Job description
## About Blackbird: Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers. Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry.
## About Our Team: At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees. We have **passion for our product** – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are **elite performers** – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We **make others better** – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and iterate on financial models that project the future state of Blackbird’s business across multiple scenarios (growth, market expansion, product launches).
- Develop unit economics models for Blackbird’s transaction network (Flynet), restaurant memberships, and Blackbird Club loyalty program.
- Analyze market data and industry trends in the U.S. restaurant economy to identify opportunities and inform strategic priorities.
- Prepare investor-ready materials, board presentations, and internal memos that translate complex analysis into clear narratives.
- Partner with the Product, Sales, and Operations teams to pressure-test assumptions and validate growth levers.
- Support fundraising and partnership conversations with data-driven insights and scenario analysis.
Requirements
- 2–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, or management consulting. Internship experience at the right caliber also qualifies.
- Strong proficiency in financial modeling, including DCF, LBO, scenario/sensitivity analysis, and three-statement models.
- Exceptional Excel/Google Sheets skills.
- Comfort with AI tools, SQL, and data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker).
- Ability to work with ambiguity and build models from limited data, we are a growth-stage company, not a mature enterprise.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You will present to the CEO and the board.
- Passion for restaurants, hospitality, and/or the future of commerce and loyalty.
- Based in New York City. This is an on-site role.
Conditions
- Depending on your work location and experience the target annual salary for this position can range from: *$80,000 - $120,000* USD. This range does not include the equity component of the overall compensation package.
- Full time offers from Blackbird may also include stock options, benefits (including medical, dental, vision, flexible time off, 401(k)), and some not-so-standard, extra-fun perks — subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility.
About Blackbird Labs
Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and membership platform for restaurants that combines payments, loyalty rewards, and blockchain technology to strengthen direct connections between restaurants and their guests. The company offers a customizable loyalty programming platform and consumer app that enables restaurants to grow repeat business while providing diners with a unified wallet to manage memberships and rewards across multiple restaurants.