Perplexity AI
Strategic Finance Lead - Infrastructure
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsMachine LearningFinancial ModelingAccountingForecastingBudgetingExcelFP&ALeadershipCommunicationVariance Analysis
About the role
- Perplexity is seeking a Strategic Finance - Infrastructure Lead to provide financial leadership over our cloud service provider (CSP) spend, compute and model capacity planning, and broader infrastructure economics.
- This person will be a core partner to our engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, bringing financial rigor and judgment to the most consequential cost decisions the company makes.
- You'll build the models that underpin our capacity investments, own the day-to-day CSP and model provider relationships, and help shape how we plan for infrastructure as the business scales.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain multi-year capacity forecasts and scenario models across CPU, GPU, and accelerator footprints
- Partner with Strategic Finance leadership on long-horizon capacity decisions, including reserved/committed structures and build-out sequencing
- Lead ROI and trade-off analysis for new platforms, hardware generations, and efficiency initiatives
- Translate engineering and product roadmaps into capacity requirements and the cost envelope to support them
- Own day-to-day management for all core infrastructure spend, including the monthly bill, variance analysis, and forecasting
- Drive efficiency and optimization initiatives with engineering and infrastructure teams
- Build cost-driver models that explain spend movements and surface the levers behind them
- Support CSP rate and commit negotiations with rate analysis, benchmarking, and contract modeling
- Maintain deep working knowledge of CSP contract terms, pricing structures, discount programs, and optimization opportunities
- Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, accrual accuracy, and compliance
Nice to have
- 4+ years of experience in strategic finance or FP&A at a high-growth technology company, plus 2+ years in investment banking at a top-tier firm
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