Strategic Finance Lead

*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.

Each new site, each large customer deal, and each hardware purchase is a long-term commitment of capital. Bringing one of those decisions forward is a multi-team effort across Datacenter Operations, Supply Chain, Capital Markets and Sales. Strategic Finance's job is to make sure the capital we commit earns the best return it can.

We are hiring a Strategic Finance Lead to own the finance view in that process. You will work alongside the VP of Strategic Finance and be the finance partner to the people who find sites, buy hardware, raise capital and sign customers. Depending on where the business needs you, the same work extends to our unit economics and to how we price our public cloud. The job is less about producing a model and more about making sure the right questions get asked, the trade-offs are laid out plainly, and leadership can see what they are choosing between before they choose.

Two things matter most in this role. First, you have to be very good at working with people who are not in finance. You will spend most of your time with engineers, operators, buyers and deal makers, and your influence depends on them wanting you in the conversation. Second, you have to think in systems. We are growing fast, and the way we evaluate projects has to scale with us: consistent enough to compare one site to another, detailed enough to drill into when something looks off, and simple enough to summarize for a CEO in a page.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You will own your work end to end and set the standard for how Strategic Finance work is done.

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