Strategic Finance Lead, R&D and AI Infrastructure

The role

This person will decide how the company invests in AI, cloud and compute infrastructure, and engineering capacity. You will act as a finance partner to the CTO and R&D leadership to turn usage, billing, and headcount data into investment recommendations.

What you will do

• Build an AI-assisted, driver-based economic model for AI, cloud, and compute investments
• Lower R&D costs as a % of revenue using AI to surface optimization opportunities
• Define AI spend strategy with the Head of AI
• Own planning, forecasting, and the headcount capacity model
• Lead investment cases from business case to decision and measurement
• Turn R&D performance into executive and board narratives
• Rebuild R&D finance around AI, automation, and Pigment

Required qualifications

• 7+ years across strategic finance, FP&A, business operations, or a related role
• Record of owning consequential work end to end
• Strong data-informed modeling skills
• Hands-on experience analyzing cloud, compute, AI, or other usage-based technology costs
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, Data, AI, or Infrastructure leaders
• Judgment and communication skills to partner with senior technical leaders
• Applied AI fluency

Before you apply

• Most interview processes include a case study, an AI skills assessment, and a Leadership Principles interview
• The use of AI tools of any kind during TRM interviews is not permitted without prior approval

About the company

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. It is a Series C company with $220M in total funding.