Senior GPU Deal Lead — Equity & AI Compute

Compute Exchange; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Compute Exchange, a marketplace for AI compute, is seeking a senior deal desk professional to own transactions end to end— sourcing, structuring, negotiating, and closing. You will set playbooks for complex deals and collaborate with product and engineering to feed learnings back into the platform.

You will source and structure five- to seven-figure transactions, coordinate across counsel, finance, and technical diligence, and maintain a healthy, forecastable pipeline in CRM.

Qualifications

• Track record of sourcing, structuring, and closing complex transactions.
• Fluency in deal mechanics: pricing models, terms, credit and counterparty risk.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving markets with imperfect information.
• Strong commercial judgment on viable deals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executives.
• High autonomy and low ego; experience with seven-figure deals and finance.
• Based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Source and originate transactions on both sides of the exchange with GPU owners, neoclouds, data centers, brokers, and buyers.
• Structure complex deals: pricing, term length, commitments, deposits, escrow, delivery terms, and risk allocation.
• Lead negotiations to close deals, coordinating counsel, finance, and technical diligence as needed.
• Qualify inbound demand and triage routes to automated platform or deal desk involvement.
• Own the pipeline and forecast with accurate deal records and CRM hygiene.
• Build the deal desk operating system: templates, term libraries, and approval thresholds.
• Represent Compute Exchange and translate deal patterns into platform and product requirements.
• Engage with counterparties at industry events and in the AI infrastructure community.

Skills

Sourcing deals

Structuring transactions

Closing complex deals

Pricing models

Terms and risk allocation

Negotiation

Forecasting and CRM

Executive communication

San Francisco based

Job description

Compute Exchange, a marketplace for AI compute, is seeking a senior deal desk professional to own transactions end to end— sourcing, structuring, negotiating, and closing. You will set playbooks for complex deals and collaborate with product and engineering to feed learnings back into the platform.

You will source and structure five- to seven-figure transactions, coordinate across counsel, finance, and technical diligence, and maintain a healthy, forecastable pipeline in CRM.