Strategy and Execution Lead - Lambda Cloud Lambda Labs San Francisco Office (Fremont St)

Neura Market; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness and commuter stipends

401k Plan with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda Cloud, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks a Strategy and Execution Lead in San Francisco to shape operating cadence, build the P&L, and scale the business. This mid-to-senior IC role reports to the Head of Cloud Strategy and drives profitability and process design.

We require 5+ years in strategy/finance, strong cross-functional leadership, and a track record of turning data into decisions. Expect a hybrid SF presence with a fixed WFH day and substantial ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years (or 4+ with an advanced degree) spanning strategy, business operations, finance or revenue operations.
• Built decision-grade financial models from the ground up with incomplete data; defend assumptions before numbers.
• Lead cross-functionally with partner teams like supply, product, pricing, or finance.
• Comfortable in operational systems and process design; map and fix workflows.
• Demonstrate ownership by driving towards clear outcomes and owning the result.

Responsibilities

• Own weekly, monthly and quarterly operating cadence across business review and planning.
• Own financial models that drive strategic decisions (what we buy, where it goes, how we package it).
• Build the business unit's P&L and operating metrics with finance to evaluate profitability.
• Pilot and establish processes for long-term capital investment in foundational projects.
• Build a demand forecast system to optimize deployment timing.
• Collaborate with supply, product, pricing, and finance to turn ad-hoc fair pricing into durable operating agreements.
• Simplify processes and reduce manual overhead to improve business efficiency.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Operational design

Ownership mindset

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Industrial Engineering, Economics, or related field

Tools

Forecasting tools

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.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

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

Lambda Cloud delivers critical GPU compute to developers, enterprises, and AI-native startups. Reporting to the Head of Cloud Strategy, the Strategy and Execution Lead sets our operating cadence and builds the machinery to scale the business. This is a mid-to-senior IC role for someone who wants to build with a clear path to grow as the business scales. 12 months in, the systems you built run themselves and you've moved on to the next hard thing.

What You’ll Do

• Own Lambda Cloud’s weekly, monthly and quarterly operating cadence across business review and planning.
• Own the financial models that drive our strategic decisions (what we buy, where it goes, how we package it)
• Build the business unit's P&L and operating metrics in collaboration with finance. This is how we evaluate and improve profitability.
• Pilot and establish the process for requesting long-term capital investment in foundational projects.
• Build the demand forecast system that optimizes what gets deployed when.
• Operate at the seams with other teams such as supply, product, pricing, and support. Turn ad-hoc work such as deal pricing into well-understood and durable operating agreements.
• Keep the system efficient as it scales. Reduce manual overhead and simplify business processes in ways our customers won’t see but the business will feel such as billing automation.

You

• 5+ years (or 4+ with an advanced degree) spanning strategy, business operations, finance or revenue operations.
• You’ve built decision-grade financial models from the ground up with incomplete data. You can defend your assumptions and verify thoroughly before you put your name on a number.
• You lead cross-functionally without formal authority. You’ve gotten partner teams like supply, product, pricing, or finance moving in the same direction with a clear outcome.
• You are comfortable in the details of operational systems and process design. You’ve mapped and fixed broken workflows.
• You're an owner. You carry problems to a clear outcome and put your name on the result.
• You communicate crisply and have partnered credibly across peer teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Industrial Engineering, Economics, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• You've started rebuilding some of your own work with AI and want to go much further.
• You’ve done BizOps, Finance, or RevOps at a high-growth cloud, infrastructure, or hardware company.
• Regularly presented to executive leadership
• Commercial fluency across sales motions, deal structures, and pricing.
• Exposure to capacity planning or capex allocation in the millions. Even better if billions.

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.