Management Accountant

About Black Forest Labs

We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video.

We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide.

Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started.

Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity.

Why This Role

We're seeking a bilingual Management Accountant to serve as the cornerstone of our German accounting operations.

This role combines hands-on accounting execution with strategic financial operations, ensuring seamless coordination between our German and US entities while maintaining compliance with both German and US GAAP standards.

You'll work at the intersection of day-to-day financial operations and cross-border business requirements, partnering closely with our Head of Finance, People Operations, external payroll providers, and local German accounting advisors to maintain accurate, timely financial reporting across our dual-entity structure.

What You’ll Work On

Core Accounting Operations

Tax & Compliance

US GAAP Reporting Support

Process & Systems

What We’re Looking For:

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

How We Work Together

We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use.

Depending on your role, you’ll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected.

We’ll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible.

We think in-person time matters, and we’ve structured things to make it accessible to all.

We’ll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process.

Everything we do is grounded in four values:

If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you.

Base Annual Salary: EU €70,000- €100,000 + Equity

Note: Our recruitment process uses AI-assisted tools to help manage and organize applications. All hiring decisions are always made by our team.

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