Product Cost Management Lead - AI Infrastructure
Core
Own the official costed bill of materials (BOM), system and cluster cost baseline, and total cost of ownership (TCO) for 1P AI infrastructure to inform technical and business decisions.
Role type
Senior individual contributor product cost management lead
Builds
Trusted view of product economics for custom silicon, systems, networking, memory, storage, and rack-scale infrastructure
Domain
AI infrastructure hardware supply chain and manufacturing finance
Required skills
hardware product costing, multi-level costed BOM management, lifecycle TCO modeling, engineering change order cost impact analysis, value engineering, spreadsheet and quantitative modeling, cross-functional influence, data reconciliation, version control
Preferred skills
AI infrastructure and hyperscale data center experience, JDM/CM/ODM cost structure analysis, ERP/MRP/PLM systems proficiency, business intelligence or automation tools
Technologies
ERP, MRP, PLM, BI/AI tools
Responsibilities
Maintain version-controlled costed BOMs and system roll-ups; publish and reconcile cost/price baselines; build platform-to-platform TCO comparisons; quantify cost impacts of engineering changes; develop cost-reduction and second-source opportunity funnels; analyze actual vs. forecast costs and explain variances; build sensitivity and scenario analyses; validate savings and cost avoidance; establish cost-data definitions and change-control processes; lead recurring product-cost reviews; build scalable cost-analysis models and workflows.
