Strategic Finance Lead — Compute

📋 Description

• Finance lead for GPU compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis
• Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up financial models for the GPU fleet, including capacity
• Develop deep expertise in GPU vendor contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and surface
• Serve as subject matter expert for Perplexity's compute capacity plan, owning source of truth on
• Build internal token-cost curves distinguishing marginal from fully loaded serving cost, and
• Analyze the ROI of in-house inference and training, including opportunity cost across chip types

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and
• Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to develop new frameworks for
• Attention to detail and patience for getting to the source of truth on complex and interconnected
• Comfort being the finance person in the room with engineering leads and vendor counterparts, and
• A proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization
• A bias toward action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight

🎁 Benefits

• Equity
• Salary: $190,000 - $215,000 per year