Light
Light is a financial platform that offers fully automated general ledger and other accounting solution services for multinational companies through software. It offers a unified ledger, automated bookkeeping, multi-entity reporting, and immutable audit trails, enabling finance teams in global enterprises to manage operations efficiently with complete visibility and control.
Series ACopenhagen, Denmark50 people
1 of 21 roles
Roles are read from Light’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Light hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Light has the 289th most open roles of 2,517 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 21 open roles is 2.0× the average Series A startup here (10.6).
- 24% of openings are in Marketing, then Engineering (19%).
- Most roles are mid level (48%). 1 role suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 50, these openings would grow headcount by up to 42%.
- 0% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
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- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 67% of postings mention equity.
- 22 roles added in the last 30 days; 1 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 4 months before closing (market: 48 days).
- A typical open listing here is 45 days old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- 4 months
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days100%at 30 days100%at 60 days100%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- Light hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 22
- Roles added in 30 days
- 22
- Roles added in 90 days
- 22
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 1
- Median time a role stays open
- 4 months
- Market: 48 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #289
- of 2,517 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.42
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 21
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 5
- 24% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 8
- 38% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 45 days
- Oldest: 9 months
Pay
- Roles that post pay
- 0%
- 0 of 21
- Mention equity
- 67%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 1
- 1 internships
- Median experience asked
- 4 yrs
Breakdowns
22
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Marketing524%
- 2Engineering419%
- 3Sales419%
- 4Other314%
- 5Customer15%
- 6Finance15%
- 7Legal15%
- 8Operations15%
+1 more across 1 others
- 1Mid level1048%
- 2Manager733%
- 3Director210%
- 4Internship15%
- 5Senior15%
- 1Onsite2095%
- 2Hybrid15%
- 1London2095%
- 2Munich15%
- 1Full-time2095%
- 2Internship15%
- 1GTM1886%
- 2Operations210%
- 3Tech15%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Light role.