Head of Compute & Capacity Strategy

Unusual Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lithos builds the fastest agentic inference platform, delivering GPU capacity to startups and FT500 companies via public API or on customer hardware. You will own the multi-year capacity plan, translate demand into GPU, network and data-center requirements, and lead procurement across neoclouds, colo providers, OEMs and hyperscalers.

Reporting to the founders, you will model total cost of ownership per unit of performance, negotiate seven-figure infrastructure contracts, and create a rolling

Formación

• 7+ years in compute capacity, infrastructure procurement or data-center commercial roles at a neocloud, colo provider, OEM or channel partner, or a hyperscaler capacity team.
• You have personally negotiated and closed seven-figure-plus infrastructure contracts, including commit structures, drawdowns and SLA remedies, and can walk through one in detail.
• You think and speak in numbers: $/GPU-hour, utilization, power density, delivery lead times, effective cost per unit of performance.
• Working knowledge of current GPU generations, high-speed networking (InfiniBand/RoCE) and what separates a good cluster from an expensive one.
• Comfortable as a team of one at first: building the spreadsheets, the processes and the vendor relationships yourself.
• Nice to have: experience with capacity for AI inference or training workloads, or on the vendor side selling GPU capacity to AI labs.

Responsabilidades

• Own the multi-year capacity plan.
• Run procurement across vendors.
• Own the commercial terms and end-to-end contracts.
• Build a rolling price book and vendor scorecard.
• Model total cost of ownership per unit of performance.
• Partner with engineering to ensure hardware aligns with software needs.

Conocimientos

Compute capacity experience

Procurement & vendor management

Contract negotiation & SLA remedies

Cost modeling / TCO analysis

GPU & networking knowledge

Vendor contracts (seven-figure)

Herramientas

InfiniBand/RoCE networking

Descripción del empleo

Lithos builds the fastest agentic inference platform, delivering GPU capacity to startups and FT500 companies via public API or on customer hardware. You will own the multi-year capacity plan, translate demand into GPU, network and data-center requirements, and lead procurement across neoclouds, colo providers, OEMs and hyperscalers.

Reporting to the founders, you will model total cost of ownership per unit of performance, negotiate seven-figure infrastructure contracts, and create a rolling