Director, Treasury

Lambda; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Lambda in the San Francisco/San Jose area is seeking a Director, Treasury to lead cash management, forecasting, and risk programs for a high-growth AI infrastructure company preparing for an IPO. You will own liquidity planning, banking relationships, and capital deployment, reporting to the VP, Treasurer.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in corporate treasury at a tech firm, strong modeling, and executive presence to partner with Finance, Legal, and Audit teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of treasury/finance leadership experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO tech company.
• Expertise in cash forecasting, liquidity, and bank relationship management.
• Experience with ERP and TMS systems.
• Broad treasury fluency across cash, debt, capital markets, insurance, and risk.
• People leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling; strong storytelling for execs.

Responsibilities

• Own treasury cash management strategy and liquidity planning.
• Build and manage an investment platform for corporate cash.
• Establish risk management programs including FX and interest rate risk.
• Develop forecast infrastructure and implement a Treasury Management System.
• Maintain banking relationships and financing facilities.
• Collaborate on capital allocation, IPO readiness, and scaling projects.
• Oversee intercompany funding, cross-border transactions, and SPV cash flows.
• Develop treasury team as the function scales.
• Support corporate risk insurance with Legal and FP&A.
• Create policies and controls for IPO readiness.
• Prepare materials for CFO, exec leadership, and audit/board committees.

Skills

Cash flow forecasting

Liquidity management

Bank relationship management

ERP systems

Treasury Management System (TMS)

Financial modeling

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

CTP or CFA designation preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Treasury Management System (TMS)

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

• Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

Lambda is scaling Treasury to support financing and operating a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure buildout. As Director, Treasury, reporting to the VP, Treasurer, you'll be a key leader on the Treasury team, serving as a deputy who can operate across the full breadth of the function and step in with authority on any workstream. You'll provide day-to-day team guidance across cash operations and forecasting, investment management, liquidity and capital deployment, debt and financing compliance, insurance, and risk management.

What You’ll Do

• Own treasury cash management strategy, including liquidity planning and working capital optimization.
• Build and own Lambda's investment management platform for corporate cash.
• Establish Treasury's risk management program and policy, including FX, interest rate, and power risk.
• Develop 13-week and long-term cash flow forecasting infrastructure, including implementation of a Treasury Management System (TMS).
• Own day-to-day banking relationships across Lambda's bank partners, partnering with Capital Markets/Corp Dev on credit facility and financing relationships.
• Partner with Capital Markets and FP&A on capital allocation decisions, IPO readiness, and other scaling project support.
• Oversee intercompany funding structures, cross-border transactions, SPV account waterfalls, and cash liquidity strategy.
• Develop and grow a treasury team as the function scales.
• Support the corporate risk insurance program, liaising with Legal and FP&A teams.
• Build Treasury policies, controls, and approval frameworks designed for IPO readiness.
• Prepare Treasury materials for the CFO, executive leadership, and audit/board committees

You

• 8+ years of progressive experience in treasury, corporate finance, or a related function, at a senior level at a high-growth or pre-IPO technology company.
• Demonstrated expertise in cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and bank relationship management.
• Experience with ERP systems and Treasury Management Systems (TMS).
• Broad treasury fluency; comfortable moving across cash management, debt/covenant compliance, capital markets, insurance, and financial risk management.
• People leadership experience, with a track record of managing, mentoring, and providing hands-on guidance to a team, and of prioritizing across competing, mission-critical workstreams.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; strong presentation-building skills; comfort working cross-functionally.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to represent Treasury independently with banks, lenders, auditors, and executive leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; CTP or CFA designation preferred.

Nice to Have

• Experience with interest rate, power derivatives, and ISDA documentation.
• Experience with GPU, data center, or other capital-intensive infrastructure financing.
• SOX readiness or public company treasury experience.
• Experience building AI tools or embedding AI into treasury workflows to improve forecasting, visibility, and control.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer 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 that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Compensation Range: $240K - $320K