Strategic Finance Lead

About Lambda

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

About Lambda

Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

Responsibilities

• Own the finance view of our project and deal decisions.
• From early screening through final approval, make sure every site, deal and major purchase is assessed with the same rigor, and that returns, risks and assumptions are visible to the people deciding.
• Create alignment across the company.
• Reach out to Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales to agree on assumptions and on how a decision should be framed, early enough that finance rigor speeds the decision up rather than slowing it down.
• Frame the trade-offs.
• When we are choosing between sites, between customer opportunities, or between ways to finance something, lay out the decision points clearly and make the trade-offs explicit. Help leadership see the choice, not just the recommendation.
• Build the system.
• Design and maintain the systems, templates and review cadence that let us evaluate projects consistently, audit a past decision, and zoom in or out depending on who is asking. The goal is that leadership has confidence in the numbers before we commit, and that confidence does not depend on one person.
• Bring it to the room.
• Prepare and present the finance view at our deal and investment reviews.
• Go where the question is.
• Take on adjacent problems as the business needs: own the unit economics work, be a thought partner to the Public Cloud team on pricing and packaging, and work across the broader finance team.

Requirements

• 8+ years in strategic finance, corporate development, investment banking, infrastructure investing or a similar role, including time inside an operating company working with non-finance teams.
• You have evaluated large, long-lived capital commitments and know how to explain returns and risk to a general audience.
• You are comfortable working with engineers and operators. You listen first and understand the business before you model it.
• You build frameworks and processes that outlast you, and you prefer a consistent, repeatable method to a clever one-off.
• You are AI-native, and have clear examples of processes you created and improved with AI tools.
• You write and present clearly. You can hold a point of view with senior leadership and change it when the facts change.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and with being the person who creates structure where there was none.

Preferred

• Experience in datacenters, cloud infrastructure, telecom, energy or another capital-intensive industry.
• Experience with supply chain or capital markets decisions from the finance side.
• Experience with unit economics or pricing in a consumption or infrastructure business.

Pay

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

Benefits

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Work location

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.