Strategic Finance Lead

The role

The Strategic Finance Lead will turn questions about inference economics, pricing, and compute spending into financial models and recommendations. You will partner with founders and various departments to evaluate growth priorities, own the operating model, and support board discussions and fundraising.

What you will do

• Turn questions about inference economics, pricing, commercial opportunities, compute spending, and hiring into financial models and recommendations.
• Partner with founders, engineering, infrastructure, go-to-market, People, and the Corporate Controller to evaluate growth and investment priorities.
• Understand customer and product profitability and make resource tradeoffs explicit.
• Own the operating model, budgeting, rolling forecasts, headcount and expense planning, and cash runway scenarios.
• Support board discussions and fundraising with financial narratives and decision materials.
• Translate accounting actuals into a forward-looking view of the business.

Required qualifications

• Experience personally owning strategic finance, business planning, or financial analysis for a growing technology business.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including driver-based revenue and expense forecasts, headcount plans, and connecting the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Commercial and operating judgment to evaluate unit economics, investment returns, pricing, and resource allocation.
• Ability to reconcile plans with accounting actuals and explain performance variances.
• Advanced spreadsheet and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and business-partnering skills.
• Comfort owning ambiguous finance projects end-to-end.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, developer tools, usage-based software, or businesses where infrastructure cost and customer consumption materially affect margins.
• Experience partnering with engineering and infrastructure teams on compute costs, capacity commitments, utilization, and deployment models.
• Experience preparing board reporting, fundraising models, investor analyses, or decision materials for senior leadership.
• Experience planning for a distributed or international organization.
• Experience improving planning systems, dashboards, data integrations, or automated reporting.
• SQL or lightweight scripting is helpful.
• Built strategic finance models, decision processes, or a planning foundation before a company had an established finance operating cadence.
• Connected product usage, infrastructure costs, and commercial terms to customer or product profitability and influenced a concrete business decision.
• Improved forecast quality and management visibility without slowing execution or requiring a large finance team.
• Built trusted, self-service financial reporting or used automation to reduce repetitive analysis.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k) company match

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis.

About the company

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the company sits at the intersection of models and hardware.