Finance & Strategy Lead, Claude Platform (API)New$325K

The opportunity

The Claude Platform (API) is how developers and enterprises build with Claude, directly and through our cloud partners. It runs on a consumption model, and the economics move quickly.

What you'll do

  • Own financial strategy for the Claude Platform (API), including pricing,: packaging, discounting, and commercial terms across self-serve, enterprise, and cloud partner channels

  • Design and launch new business models for the platform and new products, such: as capacity commitments, service tiers, and usage- or outcome-based pricing, from first framing through launch and post-launch review

  • Set pricing for new product features on the platform, working with product,: engineering, and go-to-market teams to balance adoption, capacity, and margin

  • Partner with infrastructure and inference teams to understand how cost to: serve is changing, and turn efficiency gains and capacity constraints into pricing and product decisions

  • Work closely with product leaders on roadmap priorities, launch sequencing,: and business cases for new bets, bringing the financial view into product decisions

  • Bring recommendations on pricing, investments, and tradeoffs to executive: leadership, with the analysis to support them

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience across strategic finance, product finance, private: equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, or investment banking
  • Experience pricing APIs, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure services: such as compute, storage, or data platforms
  • Experience with enterprise commercial structures such as committed-spend: agreements, volume discounts, reserved capacity, or tiered service levels
  • Experience selling through cloud marketplaces or partner channels, and: managing the economics across first-party and third-party distribution
  • Familiarity with how large language models are served, including token-based: pricing, inference cost drivers, and capacity planning
  • Experience monetizing a new product category without clear market benchmarks
  • Experience building a team, or leading and mentoring senior analysts
  • Background in AI, ML, or related technologies