CareerPlan

Strategic Deals Lead, Compute & Infrastructure

San Francisco, CAFull-time$265k–$325k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Originate, structure, negotiate, and close high-value deals to secure compute, silicon, networking, and financing for training and serving frontier AI systems.

Role type

Senior IC strategic deals lead (compute & infrastructure)

Builds

Long-term supply strategies and commercially viable deal terms for cloud capacity, semiconductor supply, and multi-year partnerships

Domain

AI infrastructure + Capital markets/Financing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Complex transaction origination and negotiation, financial modeling, term sheet development, capital markets/financing expertise, stakeholder management, technical translation

Preferred skills

Hyperscaler AI/cloud partnership experience, managing multiple high-value transactions, operating in ambiguous environments

Technologies

Cloud providers, semiconductors, networking, memory, data centers

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end deal execution from opportunity identification to close and post-close execution; Negotiate complex agreements with hyperscalers and hardware suppliers; Build financial models and commercial frameworks; Partner with engineering to translate workload requirements into supply strategies; Represent the company with corporate executives and investors

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC