Product Finance, Inference Capacity Lead
About The Position
About the role We are seeking a Product Finance, Inference Capacity Lead to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a key partner to our product teams, engineering leaders, and go-to-market teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to support strategic decision-making. As we continue to grow, you will play a crucial role in analyzing financial data, building detailed financial models, and delivering insights to drive informed business decisions across our inference infrastructure—one of the biggest line items on our P&L. This role will work closely with senior Compute, Product, and GTM stakeholders, and collaborating with other members of the finance organization to align product and inference strategies with broader financial considerations. You'll be passionate about optimizing and driving clarity into the impact that inference capacity has on our growth potential, while creating and scaling novel unit economic metrics for the business to operate by. If you are passionate about leveraging financial acumen to support innovation and drive business success at our cutting-edge AI company, join us on the frontier of making AI safe and impactful.
Requirements
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop / maintain complex and detailed financial operating models
- Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to navigate complex financial challenges
- Comfort working cross-functionally with senior engineering leaders, technical teams, and are adept at communicating complex financial information to both technical and non-finance audiences
- Excitement about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
- Possess a bias towards action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Passion for optimizing and driving clarity into major cost centers and P&L line items
- Are passionate about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of experience across strategic finance, product finance, compute finance, investment banking, private equity, and growth equity
- A combination of 5+ years in strategic finance, paired with several years prior across investment banking, private equity, or growth equity
- Direct experience and strong interest in AI infrastructure
- Background in AI, ML, or related technologies
- Experience creating and scaling novel unit economic metrics and frameworks
- Experience with consumption based and/or complex business models
Responsibilities
- Provide expert guidance, recommendations, and influence to product, engineering, and go-to-market stakeholders on financial strategies, investments, and resource allocation decisions, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the company's financials
- Partner cross-functionally with senior engineering leaders and technical teams to drive detailed financial modeling and analysis, building sophisticated models to optimize inference infrastructure costs and performance
- Lead the creation and scaling of novel unit economic metrics for the business, including LTV, contribution margin, and other key performance indicators that enable data-driven decision-making
- Drive optimization initiatives and provide clarity into inference infrastructure costs, working to maximize efficiency of one of our largest P&L line items
- Partner cross-functionally to drive analysis, build financial models, and recommend business decisions across a variety of areas, such as pricing and packaging, business expansion, and defining new unit economic frameworks
- Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial reports, analyses, and forecasts, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities to facilitate informed decision-making to stakeholders and executives
- Collaborate with other members of Finance & Strategy and accounting counterparts, helping to align product and inference strategies with broader financial considerations
- Establish and implement reporting dashboards and scorecards to track key operational and financial metrics
Benefits
- competitive compensation and benefits
- optional equity donation matching
- generous vacation and parental leave
- flexible working hours
- a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
