VP of Strategic Finance

The role

The VP of Strategic Finance will shape financial strategy for a company operating in AI software and large-scale compute infrastructure. You will act as a thought partner to the CFO and executive team to build models, plans, and insights for capital allocation, pricing, and scaling.

What you will do

• Own the annual operating plan and long-range financial model
• Model and evaluate major investment decisions including GPU and data center capacity
• Develop understanding of economics across software platform and compute business
• Partner with Product and GTM on pricing and packaging
• Prepare board materials, investor updates, and executive reporting
• Support equity fundraising, debt and asset-backed financing, and investor diligence
• Lead the financial integration of Lightning AI and Voltage Park
• Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Sales, and Marketing leaders on planning
• Evaluate strategic opportunities including partnerships, acquisitions, and contracts
• Build, manage, and develop a high-performing FP&A and strategic finance team

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, investment banking, or management consulting
• At least 5 years in a senior finance leadership role
• Infrastructure economics expertise with experience in capital-intensive businesses such as cloud infrastructure, data centers, telecom, or hardware
• Software and usage-based revenue fluency including SaaS and consumption-based business models
• Exceptional modeling skills to build sophisticated, flexible financial models from scratch
• Capital markets experience with equity fundraising, debt financing, or M&A transactions at a venture-backed or growth-stage company
• Executive presence with credibility with CEOs, boards, and investors
• Track record of building and developing finance teams in a fast-growing environment
• Business acumen to connect financial outcomes to operational drivers
• Bias for action

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Meaningful Equity (RSUs)
• 401(k) matching (U.S.) and pension contributions (U.K.)
• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• Annual learning and development allowance
• Wellness and work-from-home stipends
• Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service
• Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model
• Complimentary meals at office hubs

About the company

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. It builds an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems.