Head of Infrastructure Finance & Strategic Planning

ATOMS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

Voluntary insurance options

Pet insurance

Job summary

Atoms is hiring a Finance/Infrastructure Finance professional to own the financial planning and budgeting for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across the company. You will partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess financial impacts of key technical decisions.

The role requires 3–6 years in an investment-facing environment and a strong ability to build bottom-up cost models using operational drivers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or highly analytical field.
• 3-6 years in an investment-facing environment with exposure to deploying capital or supporting investment decisions.
• Direct experience supporting cloud, compute, storage, AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, or other technically complex environments.
• Ability to build bottom-up compute or storage cost models using technical and operational drivers.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure cost drivers, including usage, utilization, capacity, storage, networking, and vendor pricing.
• Ability to partner credibly with technical teams and translate infrastructure requirements into financial decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, budgeting, and decision support for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across Atoms’ businesses.
• Build bottom-up models to determine infrastructure budgets based on workloads, capacity, utilization, architecture, data growth, and unit costs.
• Partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess the financial impact of technical decisions.
• Evaluate vendor commitments, capacity investments, cloud-versus-owned infrastructure, and other build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
• Develop infrastructure unit economics and identify opportunities to improve utilization, cost efficiency, and long-term capacity planning.

Skills

Cost modeling

Financial planning

Budgeting

Stakeholder collaboration

Infra budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM/analytical field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Atoms is hiring a Finance/Infrastructure Finance professional to own the financial planning and budgeting for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across the company. You will partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess financial impacts of key technical decisions.

The role requires 3–6 years in an investment-facing environment and a strong ability to build bottom-up cost models using operational drivers.