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

Perplexity
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The opportunity

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead for our GPU compute fleet. In this role, you will be a key partner to our inference and infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise to optimize our compute investments and drive capacity decisions.

What you'll do

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

  • Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up financial models for the GPU fleet,: including capacity forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling

  • Develop deep expertise in GPU vendor contracts, pricing structures, and cost: drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across the fleet

  • Serve as subject matter expert for Perplexity's compute capacity plan, owning: source of truth on utilization, committed-versus-consumed spend, and capacity by vendor and cluster

  • Build internal token-cost curves distinguishing marginal from fully loaded: serving cost, and translate them into internal and external token pricing

  • Analyze the ROI of in-house inference and training, including opportunity: cost across chip types, cluster configurations, and workloads, distilled into a framework for capacity deployment

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment,: private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with infrastructure or datacenter experience
  • Experience in cloud or GPU infrastructure financial management, including: direct work with major cloud service providers or neoclouds
  • Direct experience with committed-use economics: reserved capacity, savings plans, committed-use discounts — and GPU procurement
  • Deep expertise in GPU vendor economics, contract structures, and pricing models
  • Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies
  • Proficiency with financial modeling tools