Strategic Finance Lead, Compute

Prime Intellect•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack — from frontier agentic models to the infra that enables anyone to create, train, and deploy them. We aggregate and orchestrate global compute into a single control plane and pair it with the full RL post-training stack: environments, secure sandboxes, verifiable evals, and our async RL trainer. We enable researchers, startups and enterprises to run end-to-end reinforcement learning at frontier scale, adapting models to real tools, workflows, and deployment contexts. We recently raised $15mm in funding (total of $20mm raised) led by Founders Fund, with participation from Menlo Ventures and prominent angels including Andrej Karpathy, Tri Dao, Dylan Patel, Clem Delangue, Emad Mostaque, and many others. Your Role You will own strategic finance at Prime Intellect - the models, analyses, and financial judgment that inform every major decision the company makes, from nine- and ten-figure compute commitments to GTM strategy to the next fundraise. This is not a traditional FP&A role. Compute is our largest cost, our core product, and the place where financial judgment has the highest leverage. You'll work on the operating economics of our supply: per-contract P&L across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and datacenter operators globally; reserved vs. spot tradeoffs; margin by workload, customer, and product. You'll partner with the leadership team on capital allocation and every meaningful supply decision, with GTM on pricing and revenue planning, and with Engineering on the unit economics of everything we ship. You'll be the person who can model what a $200M reserved capacity commitment does to gross margin across three demand scenarios on a Tuesday, reconcile a neocloud partner's invoice against forecast on Wednesday and partner with Sales on enterprise pricing on Friday.

Requirements

5+ years across strategic finance, infrastructure investing, growth/private equity, investment banking, consulting, or operating finance roles at high-growth tech or AI infrastructure companies
Exceptional modeling and analytical skills — you build the models yourself, and your models reflect how the business actually works, not just accounting conventions
Strong commercial and business judgment — you understand that finance's job is to inform decisions, not just report on them
Comfortable with complex, usage-based, or infrastructure-heavy business models
Ability to operate at multiple altitudes — modeling a contract one hour, framing a strategic decision for the CEO the next, building a board deck after that, sitting across from a neocloud CFO the day after
Comfortable being the finance person in the partner/vendor room, partnering with technical operating teams
High ownership — you see gaps and build the fix before anyone asks
Comfortable in ambiguity and speed; this company and this market don’t slow down
AI-native in how you work: you use LLMs, automation, and programmatic tools to build systems that scale without manual upkeep

Nice To Haves

Direct experience with AI infrastructure, datacenter, colocation, cloud, or power/energy economics and contract structures
Experience working on infrastructure operating P&L and cost-out programs
Background in AI infrastructure, cloud providers, or compute marketplaces
Fundraising experience at growth stage
Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)

Responsibilities

Own the operating P&L for Prime Intellect's compute supply — per-contract economics across reserved capacity, spot, and hybrid arrangements
Partner closely with the leadership team on every meaningful supply decision: hardware generation, contract term, commitment level, provider mix, geography
Build and maintain per-contract cost forecasts; run budget-vs-actual; reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast
Own margin architecture: margin by workload, customer, product, and contract — so we always know what's actually profitable and where the leverage is
Model the long-term P&L consequences of today's supply bets under multiple demand and pricing scenarios
Serve as a finance counterpart in our operating relationships with neoclouds, datacenter operators, and other supply partners
Partner with leadership on the biggest financial decisions the company makes: compute commitments, hiring plans, product bets, fundraising
Own the long-range plan, scenario models, and the framework for how we allocate capital across compute, headcount, and product investment
Build the models that turn ambiguous strategic questions into decisions we can make with conviction
Partner with Growth on revenue goals, sales capacity planning, deal desk, pricing, and marketing ROI
Build forecasting models that incorporate usage patterns, committed capacity, credit balances, and expansion signals
Inform pricing strategy for consumption-based and hybrid products
Build the financial narrative, models, and diligence materials for fundraising rounds
Build internal reporting: KPIs, financial performance, key bets and their status
Partner with the CEO on investor communications and strategic updates