Production Finance

The role

The Product Finance Lead will own the financial strategy behind products from silicon economics through customer monetization. This person will connect product cost, manufacturing, supply, pricing, and margin into a single view of the business.

What you will do

• Own product economics end to end.
• Drive pricing and monetization strategy.
• Own the financial lens on the product roadmap.
• Partner with manufacturing and supply chain.
• Understand the drivers of product cost.
• Translate AI infrastructure economics into financial decisions.
• Shape investment decisions.
• Own inventory and supply economics.
• Build the financial operating system for the product.
• Make processes scale.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in finance, strategy, or another analytically rigorous role.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills.
• Experience with product cost, manufacturing, inventory, supply planning, or hardware unit economics.
• Ability to take an ambiguous question, structure the analysis, develop a point of view, and independently drive it through to a decision.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with large, messy datasets.
• The judgment and conviction to make recommendations with imperfect information.
• Strong cross-functional instincts and the ability to work effectively with technical, operational, commercial, and finance teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets proficiency.

Nice to have

• Experience in semiconductors, AI infrastructure, data center hardware, or another technically complex hardware business.
• Deep familiarity with semiconductor manufacturing economics, including wafers, yields, packaging, components, inventory, purchase commitments, and product ramps.
• Experience owning pricing, monetization, or product finance for a hardware or infrastructure product.
• Experience evaluating customer total cost of ownership and translating technical performance advantages into pricing and commercial strategy.
• Experience building or improving financial systems, dashboards, and automated reporting processes.
• Familiarity with ERP, BI, data visualization, or financial planning tools.
• Experience partnering directly with manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, or product organizations.
• A deep interest in AI infrastructure and a perspective on where AI compute economics are heading.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

About the company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. The company is a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row).