Strategic Finance Lead for AI Cloud & Capital

Lambda Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k Plan with 2% company match

Job summary

Lambda in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Strategic Finance Lead to own the finance view for site selections, capital investments, and pricing in the public cloud. You will partner with the VP of Strategic Finance and work across Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales.

The role emphasizes cross-functional influence, scalable framework design, and clear trade-offs for leadership, with a focus on unit economics and AI-native processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in strategic finance, corporate development, investment banking, infrastructure investing or a similar role, including time inside an operating company working with non-finance teams.
• Evaluated large, long-lived capital commitments and explained returns and risk to a general audience.
• Comfortable working with engineers and operators. Listen first and understand the business before you model it.
• Build frameworks and processes that outlast you, preferring a consistent, repeatable method to a clever one-off.
• AI-native, with clear examples of processes created or improved with AI tools.
• Write and present clearly. Hold a point of view with senior leadership and adjust it with new facts.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and with creating structure where there was none.

Responsibilities

• Own the finance view of our project and deal decisions. From early screening through final approval, ensure every site, deal and major purchase is assessed with the same rigor, and that returns, risks and assumptions are visible to the decision makers.
• Create alignment across the company. Reach out to Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales to agree on assumptions and framing to speed finance rigor.
• Frame the trade-offs. When choosing between sites, customer opportunities, or financing options, lay out decision points clearly and make the trade-offs explicit.
• Build the system. Design and maintain the systems, templates and review cadence that let us evaluate projects consistently and audit past decisions.
• Bring it to the room. Prepare and present the finance view at deal and investment reviews.
• Go where the question is. Take on adjacent problems: own unit economics work, advise on pricing and packaging for Public Cloud, and collaborate with the broader finance team.

Job description

Lambda in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Strategic Finance Lead to own the finance view for site selections, capital investments, and pricing in the public cloud. You will partner with the VP of Strategic Finance and work across Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales.

The role emphasizes cross-functional influence, scalable framework design, and clear trade-offs for leadership, with a focus on unit economics and AI-native processes.