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Strategic Finance Lead — Compute

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Strategic Finance Lead optimizing GPU compute fleet investments, capacity decisions, and token pricing for AI inference and training workloads.

Role type

Senior strategic finance lead (infrastructure/AI compute)

Builds

Financial models for GPU fleet capacity, cost-driver analyses, and investment scenarios

Domain

AI infrastructure / GPU compute / Cloud economics

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Strategic financial planning, bottom-up financial modeling, GPU vendor contract analysis, ROI analysis, capacity forecasting, cost driver identification, technical infrastructure partnership

Preferred skills

AI/ML background, cloud/GPU infrastructure financial management, committed-use economics, chip architecture economics, financial modeling tools

Responsibilities

Manage GPU compute budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis; Build financial models for capacity and investment scenarios; Analyze GPU vendor contracts and pricing structures; Own compute capacity planning and utilization metrics; Develop internal token-cost curves for pricing; Partner with engineering to translate technical scaling dynamics into financial frameworks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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