Director, Head of Compute Finance

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

5d•$256,000 - $356,000

About The Position

Google's Treasury team manages and protects Google's financial assets, optimizes the balance sheet, and supports the financial needs of Alphabet and its businesses. As demand for large-scale AI compute accelerates, the team develops tailored capital solutions to finance hardware commitments. The Head of Compute Finance enables customer financing solutions for Google's custom AI infrastructure, with a focus on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). The role leads the structuring, execution, and risk management of complex financing arrangements—including equipment leasing, asset-backed securitization, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), bank syndication, and credit support arrangements—to lower adoption barriers and accelerate business generation for Google TPUs. The role collaborates with internal teams including treasury capital markets, cloud sales and finance, data center sourcing, energy location strategy, corporate development, controllership, and legal. External partners include capital providers, investment banks, data center developers, neoclouds, and TPU customers. The Head of Compute Finance serves as the primary TPU financing structuring contact for the cloud sales team, client agreement leads and finance executives, banking partners, and institutional capital providers. The role leads a team and scales the activity across Google.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Economics, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience in structured or asset-based finance, infrastructure investing, private equity, hedge funds, private credit, or investment banking.
Experience building, leading, and managing teams.

Nice To Haves

MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
Experience with power infrastructure, semiconductors, or electrical engineering.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex concepts and processes effectively, particularly with executive-level stakeholders.
Excellent business partnering skills, including the ability to build effective relationships, influence across the organization, and drive initiatives across cross-functional teams and vendors or partners.
Exceptional problem-solving, strategic, and analytical skills, combined with strong business acumen and judgment.

Responsibilities

Architect and launch scalable customer financing solutions for TPU deployments that meet customers' capital constraints.
Partner with external financial institutions, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, and banking partners to establish durable syndication networks for third-party capital.
Lead transaction structuring and negotiation for financing support for agreements involving large-scale TPU commitments with enterprises, AI startups, and hyperscale partners.
Oversee transaction documentation, credit support mechanisms, guarantees, security interests, and residual value risk structures.
Develop standard operating frameworks, term sheets, and governance processes to streamline agreement approval cycles.
Lead a team to scale compute financing activity and ensure it operates seamlessly across Google.