Lambda
Strategic Finance Lead
San Francisco Office (Fremont St), Remote. Posted 23 days ago
The role
The Strategic Finance Lead will own the finance view for project and deal decisions including sites, customer deals, and hardware purchases. You will work with Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets, and Sales to ensure capital commitments earn the best return.
What you will do
- Own the finance view of project and deal decisions.
- Create alignment across Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales.
- Frame trade-offs for site, customer, or financing choices.
- Design and maintain systems, templates and review cadence for project evaluation.
- Prepare and present the finance view at deal and investment reviews.
- Take on adjacent problems like unit economics or pricing and packaging.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in strategic finance, corporate development, investment banking, infrastructure investing or a similar role.
- Experience working inside an operating company with non-finance teams.
- Experience evaluating large, long-lived capital commitments.
- Ability to explain returns and risk to a general audience.
- Ability to work with engineers and operators.
- Ability to build frameworks and processes.
- AI-native with clear examples of processes created and improved with AI tools.
- Ability to write and present clearly.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and creating structure.
Nice to have
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
About the company
Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Founded in 2012, the company has 500+ employees and is growing fast.