Strategic Finance Lead - AIActive$190K–$240K

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The opportunity

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to help lead the economics of our AI products. In this role, you will be a key partner to our product, inference, and data teams, providing financial expertise to optimize model spend and drive pricing and margin decisions.

What you'll do

  • Finance lead for inference and model spend, including budgeting, monthly: forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance

  • Build and maintain product-margin models across the product portfolio,: reconciling revenue, serving cost, and gross margin from production usage data

  • Develop deep expertise in model provider contracts, pricing structures, and: cost drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across the model portfolio and routing mix

  • Serve as subject matter expert for product unit economics, owning source of: truth on cost per request, margin by product and tier, and customer-segment and feature-level economics

  • Own the consolidated model-cost forecast, translating product roadmaps and: model transitions into forward-looking spend and margin trajectories

  • Analyze the margin impact of pricing, packaging, and model-deployment: decisions, distilled into a framework for product and pricing strategy

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in strategic finance, private equity, growth equity,: consulting, or investment banking, preferably with software or AI product experience
  • Experience in AI or LLM product financial management, including direct work: with model providers or inference platforms
  • Deep expertise in usage-based pricing, subscription economics, and: gross-margin and COGS attribution by customer and model family
  • Experience with model serving economics, including how latency, throughput,: and token usage flow through to margin performance
  • Proficiency with financial modeling tools